Chapter 10 - Gender of Media and Pop Culture

Adult leisure

Leisure spent with adults only.

Audience power theory

The idea that the audience controls the popularity of media by choosing what they like or dislike.

Contaminated leisure

Leisure activities mixed with nonleisure tasks.

Culture disablement

Excluding disabled women from cultural beauty standards, assuming they can't or don't want to meet them.

Culture industry

Groups and businesses that produce cultural products like TV, movies, and books.

False consciousness

The idea that institutions mislead people about power and societal conditions.

Family leisure

Leisure spent with children.

Formal organization

A group with regular interactions and written rules.

Harried leisure

Leisure taken in short bursts, not long, relaxed periods.

Inspiration porn

Depictions of disabled people doing ordinary things to inspire non-disabled people.

Interpretive reproduction

How children interact with culture, by appropriating it and reproducing it in their own way

Leisure

What we do with our time spent outside of paid work.

Market segmentation

Dividing a market into smaller groups based on characteristics like gender or race.

Media power theory

The idea that producers control media content to maximize profit.

Midriff

A media portrayal of a young woman using her sexuality to assert power.

Overspill of meanings

When viewers create meanings beyond what the producers intended.

Postfeminism

A trend in feminism often using examples of women’s achievements in male-dominated spaces, and the freedom to make choices in career and life.

Preferred meaning

The meaning intended by the producers of a cultural product.

Pure leisure

Leisure with no additional nonleisure activities.

Relaxation

An explanation of boys' attraction to video games, seeing them as an escape from adult responsibilities.

Restoration

An explanation of boys' attraction to video games, seeing them as a way to regain control not available in the real world.

Revenge

An explanation of boys' attraction to video games, seeing them as a means to get back at others.

Reverse discrimination

The belief that affirmative action discriminates against dominant groups like white people and men.

Shipping

Fandom affinity for a particular fictional couple.

Slash

A genre of fan fiction that romanticizes or sexualizes same-sex relationships.

The super crip

The portrayal of disabled people as having superhuman abilities or being overly praised for ordinary feats.

White, working-class male buffoon

A TV stereotype of a dumb, immature, and irresponsible white male.