Pop Culture & Media Theory Lecture

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15 vocabulary flashcards summarizing key theorists, terms, and concepts from the Pop Culture 1600 lecture video, prepared to aid exam review.

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Disruptive Innovation

Clayton Christensen’s idea that low-cost or simpler innovations can eventually displace established, higher-priced products without immediately threatening them.

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Subculture

A self-identified group that develops distinct styles, values, and practices to resist or differentiate itself from the dominant culture.

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Spectacle

Guy Debord’s concept that modern society presents images and consumer experiences as the unquestioned, ultimate truth, masking real social relations.

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Postmodernism

A cultural condition marked by skepticism toward universal truths, reliance on pastiche and intertextuality, and rejection of a single grand narrative.

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Grand Narrative

A sweeping, universal explanation of history or society that postmodernism claims no longer holds authority.

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Meaning Implosion

Jean Baudrillard’s notion that media saturates society with signs until distinctions between true and false collapse.

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Hyperreality

Baudrillard’s term for a state where the boundary between reality and simulation blurs, creating experiences perceived as ‘more real than real.’

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Intertextuality

The practice of referencing or weaving together elements from existing texts to create new meanings.

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Parody

A form of intertextual media that imitates or mocks a pre-existing work to highlight or critique its features.

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Hegemony

The dominant culture’s power to shape norms, values, and beliefs so thoroughly that they appear natural or unquestioned.

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Pre-Modern Culture

A period in which religion was viewed as the fundamental force guiding life and artistic expression.

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Dick Hebdige

Cultural theorist who argued that subcultures decode and re-style mainstream symbols to express resistance and alternative identities.

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Clayton Christensen

Business scholar who formulated the theory of disruptive innovation describing how new entrants upend established markets.

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Guy Debord

French theorist who developed the idea of the spectacle, critiquing how capitalist society turns lived experience into mere representations.

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Dominant Culture

The prevailing set of norms, values, and practices that holds social, political, and economic power within a society.