Culture, Justice, Society

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Culture, Justice, Society

• Benkler, Chapters 8 10
• Part I Culture

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We are embedded in a culture

• Culture stories, practices, customs, habits,
  language, religion, etiquette
• Culture is produced by --
• Your family
• Your town, village, city, tribe
• Hollywood, TV, epic poems
• Traditions, leaders, documents, rituals
• Artists, architects, you and me

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Does one equal the other?

• Black American culture
• Muslim culture
• Jewish in Israel
• American culture
• Latin American
• Asian

• Hip Hop culture
• Arab culture
• Jewish in Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Miami culture
• Ecuador? Cuba? Chile?
• Thailand? China? Malaysia? Japan?

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Mattels letter to an ISP
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Culture Industries

• Organizations in arts, entertainment, news and
  information
• Commercial, government and NGOs
• They produce, display and distribute cultural
  goods and services
• They thereby control at least in part the
  culture of a society
• Frankfurt School The culture industries
  reproduce the dominant ideology

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Brands as Culture
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Transparency

• Assumptions can be questioned
• Product exits the closed system of television
  and enters the open system of the Internet
• Culture is re-writable
• Audience can participate in production of meaning
• The act of remixing teaches the individual to be
  more critical, less passive

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Adbusters.org
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Culture is more than media

• How much freedom do you have?
• What options in life are open to you, or closed?
• To what degree can you participate?
• What are your expectations for justice?
• Culture is not the barrel of a gun or the chains
  of a dungeon (p. 298)

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Cultural Capital

• A term coined by Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)
• Refers to the knowledge, accomplishments,
  credentials, and qualifications that a person has
• Based on these, you might be granted or denied
  entry into certain social circles, organizations,
  and professions

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Culture, Justice, Society

• Part 1 Culture
• Presentation by Mindy McAdams