Ch. 7

Which of the following is true about people's responses to popular culture?

Those systems or artifacts that most people share and that most people know about are known as____.

What initially motivated the exportation of US Popular culture?

In the study of white and black job applicants, how did interviewers who were influenced by negative stereotypes of Blacks differ in in their behavior?

To what does cultural imperialism refer?

_____ produces products of popular culture (e.g., movies, cartoons, Hello Kitty) as commodities that can be economically profitable.

Intercultural communication scholars are interested in popular culture because

Details concerning the average age, sex, and income of a magazine's readership is known as a/an _____.

Which statement is not true about popular culture and information about cultures?

Which statement is true about popular culture and stereotypes?

African American female characters who often appear as scenery in the background of television shows serve to perpetuate

Which of the following is true about how people resist cultural texts?

Who tends to be most influenced by popular culture portrayals of another cultural group?

The impact that U.S. and Western media have had on the rest of the world is known as _____.

_____has been RE-conceptualized as popular culture

Electronic colonialism is

Cultural Imperialism is___

Popular Mexican American music in Los Angeles illustrates

The fact that we are bombarded with popular culture every day and everywhere illustrates that it is _____, a characteristic of popular culture.

Which of the following is not true about the consumption of popular culture?

which of the following is not true about resisting popular culture?

The power relations of using media to market U.S. goods through movies on foreign screens are referred to as _____.

Portrayals of readership that give the average age, gender and household incomes are known as _____.

Domination or exploitation of other cultures utilizing technology is known as _____.

There is a great deal of research on why U.S. television programs are so successful in other cultures.

People resist the use of popular culture as a forum for dealing with social issues.

Cultural groups are generally depicted accurately in popular culture.

The U.S film industry makes more money on their films outside the U.S. than they do inside.

Generally a large number of people have to be interested in something for it to be considered popular culture.

White American are so often portrayed in popular culture that it is difficult to stereotype them.

When non-American watch television shows for entertainment (such as CSI or Desperate Housewives), they don't consider the story a reflection of American reality.

Most language teachers encourage the use of popular culture to improve language skills because it teaches slang and inappropriate speech varieties.

American television programs that cross cultural and linguistic frontiers are successful because they appeal to basic human values.

Television is less a reflection of reality than a forum for discussing and working out ideas on a variety of topics.