Culture I want to be a part of

School Culture

Family Culture

Social Culture

Media Culture

Media

 1. a plural of medium.

2.

( usually used with a plural verb ) the means of communication, as radio and television, newspapers, and magazines, that reach or influence people widely: The media are covering the speech tonight.

I think media culture is the bias and slant that everyone receives from the news 

This picture of media culture is ironic because obama is reporting for cnn outside the capitol building.  

 Social Media is kind of a culture in and of itself.  As that one lady said in the video we watched in class, your online self is basically a second you.

 The google and wikipedia SOPA protests were media culture because they were fighting to keep the internet uncensored by the government.

Mass Culture

Mass Culture- noun		The culture that is widely disseminated via the media

I think mass culture is both the culture that people follow blindly, (the desire to conform and fit into society) as well as the mainstream culture we get from the media.  Mass Culture is common similarities shared by a lot of people, and it is also the social norms of a society.  This includes laws and customs that apply to everyone.

 Christianity is an example of mass culture because there are at least 2 billion Christians in the world.

This is a great picture of mass culture because it shows that McDonalds has spread almost everywhere.

Popular Culture

Popular culture (commonly known as pop culture) is the totality of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes,^[1] images and other phenomena that are deemed preferred per an informal consensus within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the late 20th and early 21st century. Heavily influenced by mass media, this collection of ideas permeates the everyday lives of the society.
Popular culture is often viewed as being trivial and dumbed-down in order to find consensual acceptance throughout the mainstream. As a result, it comes under heavy criticism from various non-mainstream sources (most notably religious groups and countercultural groups) which deem it superficial, consumerist, sensationalist, and corrupted.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]}
The term "popular culture" was coined in the 19th century or earlier^[11] to refer to the education and general "culturedness" of the lower classes, as was delivered in an address at the Birmingham Town Hall, England.^[12] The term began to assume the meaning of a culture of the lower classes separate from (and sometimes opposed to) "true education" towards the end of the century,^[13] a usage that became established by the interbellum period.^[14] The current meaning of the term, culture for mass consumption, especially originating in the United States, is established by the end of World War II.^[15] The abbreviated form "pop culture" dates to the 1960s.^[16]



Pop  Culture is what people think is popular.  It's trends, new music, popular art, current fashion, new video games, or things like texting and how people talk.  Popular culture is what is hip and cool.

 The Super Bowl is part of Pop Culture because it is an event that a lot of people watch.
 ^{Justin Bieber represents popular culture because a bunch of people really like him right now.}

^{Tebow is a major figure in pop culture but only in Colorado or among broncos/football fans.}  








 Justin Bieber represents popular culture because a bunch of people really like him right now.

Elite

High culture is a term, now used in a number of different ways in academic discourse, whose most common meaning is the set of cultural products, mainly in the arts, held in the highest esteem by a culture. In more popular terms, it is the culture of an elite such as the aristocracy or intelligentsia, but also defined as a repository of a broad cultural knowledge, as a way of transcending the class system. It is contrasted with the low culture or popular culture of, variously, the less well-educated, barbarians, Philistines, or the masses.^[1]


Elite Culture to me is basically people that think they're better than other people.  Elite can have a very negative connotation and most people in Elite Culture or High Society think that they are somehow better than everyone else just because they are rich, educated, or good looking. 
 Royalty is one of the best examples of elite culture.

 Sometimes it could even be athletic ability that places people into elite culture.  But these guys also go to Harvard.

Culture

Definition of CULTURE

1

: cultivation, tillage

2

: the act of developing the intellectual and moral faculties especially by education

3

: expert care and training <beauty culture>

4

a : enlightenment and excellence of taste acquired by intellectual and aesthetic training b : acquaintance with and taste in fine arts, humanities, and broad aspects of science as distinguished from vocational and technical skills

5

a : the integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations b : the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group; also : the characteristic features of everyday existence (as diversions or a way of life} shared by people in a place or time <popular culture> <southern culture> c : the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes an institution or organization <a corporate culture focused on the bottom line> d : the set of values, conventions, or social practices associated with a particular field, activity, or societal characteristic <studying the effect of computers on print culture> <changing the culture of materialism will take time — Peggy O'Mara>

6

: the act or process of cultivating living material (as bacteria or viruses) in prepared nutrient media; also : a product of such cultivation 

I would personally define culture as everything about a group of people.  Culture is everything from race, religion, language, and social norms, to things like music, art, hobbies, occupations, architecture,  food, clothing, and likes and dislikes.

This a clash of African Culture and British ideals.   Two completely different cultures at war with one another.

This is Native American culture because shows how they dress, and it is expression, and maybe even religion through dance.

Images that describe me

 This image is powerful for me because it happened in America, and without a caption I probably would not have known that this was the occupy Seattle movement.  Right now I think I am opposed to the occupy movement, this is because the protesters don't know what they are protesting for.  If they had a specific objective or goal that they wanted to accomplish then i could respect them.  But right now they are protesting just for the sake of complaining and this type of behavior has the potential to be extremely dangerous.

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Technology

Increasing Dependence on Technology-


 Although technology definitely has some significant drawbacks to overcome, it is still a vital part of society and our entire species.  Intelligence and technology is the one thing that sets us apart from other animals, and it is the key to our survival. Humans have always utilized technology for our benefit since almost the very begging of our existence, and I think we will continue to do so until our species becomes extinct.  Technology in healthcare prolongs our lives, and while we are alive technology makes our lives easier.  The only problem is that we are becoming more and more dependent on it each year, so when the technology inevitably fails we do as well.  Just think of all of the ways technology could ruin your day: Your printer could break halfway through printing a project for school or work, a flight could be delayed when you're trying to get to an important meeting, or your car might break down miles away from the job interview of your life.  The list goes on and on, and as we all become increasingly reliant on our technology, we also increase the amount of damage it will do when it fails.

In this example all guests in the hotel got locked out of their rooms.  If hotels simply used regular keys, this wouldn't have happened.
http://technorati.com/lifestyle/travel/article/when-technology-fails-guests-locked-out/


http://www.pcworld.com/article/229876/solar_flares_could_cripple_earths_tech_infrastructure_in_2013.html
This article is about the tech crippling effects of solar flares.  In the article it said it won't end the world, just ruin a day or two, but on history channel I watched a show about mega disasters and the show said that a huge solar flare would be much more serious.  And what would really get us would be the aftermath of having all our technology knocked out for a couple days.  Refrigeration failures would lead to lack of food, and a shortage of clean water could lead to violence and riots to obtain supplies.

Here is a video illustrating the flare and how to survive it- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVe8Iji7DxY&feature=related&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

Movie

Remember the Titans

Kara- Step

The music video I chose is a random video i stumbled upon one day on youtube.  It is actually in Korean, and I have no clue what they're saying, but the visual elements of the music video are definitely stunning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYoYoBtLqOY&ob=av2e&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active