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- Film [r]: A visual medium involving the recording and display of images in motion over time, generally by photographic means. [e]
- Magazines [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Popular music [r]: Music that is accessible to the general public and disseminated by one or more of the mass media. [e]
- Radio [r]: Transmission and reception of information, which can be voice, data or imagery over electromagnetic radiation in free space (i.e., wireless). The information is modulated onto a carrier wave [e]
- Television [r]: Electronic transmission of moving pictures. [e]
Ideology and popular culture
- David Horowitz Freedom Center [r]: Originally founded by David Horowitz to form a conservative presence in Hollywood, the organization is active on a number of fronts, such as DiscoverTheNetworks, to fight what it considers a combined leftist and Islamist trend in popular culture and academia [e]
- Virginia Postrel [r]: An American journalist and author, with a special interest in popular culture, who has commented on the polarization of U.S. politics [e]
- Free Exchange on Campus [r]: A coalition of groups formed to protect what they consider to be academic freedom from conservative initiatives to preserve student academic rights, but which they consider has chilling effect [e]
Drivers
- Advertising [r]: Form of communication used to help sell products and services. [e]
- Celebrity [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Moral panic [r]: A condition, episode, person or group of persons emerges to become defined as a threat to societal values and interests; its nature is presented in a stylized and stereotypical fashion by the mass media; the moral barricades are manned by editors, bishops, politicians and other right-thinking people; socially accredited experts pronounce their diagnosis and solutions; ways of coping are revolved or (more often) resorted to. Stanley Cohen [e]
Other related topics
- Theodor Adorno [r]: (1903–1969) German philosopher, sociologist and musicologist and Frankfurt School theorist. [e]
- High culture [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Marshall McLuhan [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Neil Postman [r]: Add brief definition or description
