[Media, Information and Technoculture 2153A/B] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 70 pages long Study Guide!

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 2153A/B
• Professor: Keir Keightley

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M e d i a , i n f o rm a t i o n a n d te c h n o c u l t u re 2 1 5 3 a / b. Providing or being provided with amusement or enjoyment. An event, performance, or activity designed to entertain. Entertainment commodities come in many forms (not necessarily for enjoyment, but made to be a part of the capitalist economy) Not just one type of entertainment commodity: entertainment products, services, experiences (perishable, intangible, variable) What is culture? elements), intellectual, moral (its okay, its just entertainment) But these categories are contested and complex too. Entertainment often defined by what it is not. Supposedly not: art (but aspire to be), ordinary life, truth (though there are. We can learn from things, even if they aren"t trying to teach anything. From latin cultura, (cid:498)cultivation(cid:499); an agricultural/growth metaphor (cid:523)we. By 20th century, distinctions made between (cid:498)high(cid:499) (old, aristocratic) culture.