ANT208H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Calypso Music, Bulletin Board System, Cultural Identity
Document Summary
Television crossed cultural and naional boundaries, ofering audiences a vast range of visions and experiences beyond their local communiies, and had become the most popular and inluenial medium in the world in the 1980s. It coninues to grow popularity and inluence most regions of the world. Comparable level to kinship, religion, poliical organizaion, and educaion . Posiive inluence (edutainment: sesame street, the epitome of a popular culture icon brought to us through television. Tv acively creates new experiences for its audiences, thereby generaing new meanings. Tv has increased cultural awareness by bringing the beliefs, ideals and paterns of behaviour of other cultures into our homes: the role of the audience. Tv calls on audiences to laugh, cry, get angry, change or expand their minds and join together in social solidarity: efect on desire, fantasy or relecion, western inluence. Cultural idenity: inuit people were shown cbc programming that had nothing to do with their lives.
