CMN2160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Culture Industry, New Journalism, Folklore
8 Feb 2018
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Aura - an aura is a quality or feeling that seems to surround a person or place or to come from them. Bourgeoisie - the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes. (in marxist contexts) bourgeoisie is the capitalist class who own most of society"s wealth and means of production. Capitalism - an economic and political system in which a country"s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. Also cultural industries (sometimes also known as "creative industries") combine the creation, production, and distribution of goods and services that are cultural in nature and usually protected by intellectual. Encoding/decoding - the encoding of a message is the production of the message. It is a system of coded meanings, and in order to create that, the sender needs to understand how the world is comprehensible to the members of the audience.
