SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lowest Common Denominator, Paris Hilton, Celebrity Culture
1 Jun 2013
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We will have a brief discussion on celebrity culture, then you will have the opportunity to fill out the course evaluation (please bring a pencil), then we will watch a documentary. Encoding process: involves how its prodced, behind the scenes, editors, camera people. Think about the documentary represents the celebrity, gossip news industry. The way they are framed: through looking through the eyes of paris hilton"s career began and continues. Psudeo: pretending to be something, news pretending to let us know that this is important, front page, taken up by the regular reports that d more hard core news. The televised circus" and the circus freak show" (hoppenstand, 2007) The circus does not require a lot of brain power to understand. Lowest common denominator, an audience where material programs. You don"t need to be an intellectual to understand, or to appeal to you. The assumptions: people are spoon-fed interpretations of things. Circus freak show: sometimes freaks have weak social capital.
