Exam 13: Leisure and Media

Bloomsbury Academic Press hosted a competition called Remix the Remixer in 2008 to celebrate the release of Lawrence Lessig's book. Contest entrants were asked to find a video, interview, or written work of Lessig's, mash it up with another piece of Lessig's work, and create something new such as a video, photo, or text. What is this sort of artistic activity called?

A flash mob is a sudden assembly of strangers in a public place for the purpose of performing some unique action (clapping for no reason, singing a song together, dancing, etc.) and then rapidly dispersing. They appear to be spontaneous to outsiders, but, in reality, flash mobs are organized through emails, social networking sites, and text messages. This is a good example of how technology can

What is the movement that attempts to rebuild group values and a sense of collective responsibility called?

Which theory of media consumption combines elements of both the magic bullet theory and the uses and gratifications theory?

The average American spends more than half of their total leisure hours

Imagine that you have come across a woman rebuilding an engine. Which of the following questions would you need to ask to discover if this was a recreational activity as recreation is defined in your textbook?

Activities that can be considered recreation include

A media conglomerate is said to have ________ when it is able to market its products across a wide range of media.

For whom could celebrity stalking be seen as an obligation?

The mixed reaction to the 1998 motorcycle exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum is an example of

The assumption that media consumers automatically accept whatever meaning is in the "texts" they consume is called

The difference between leisure and recreation is that

What does the uses and gratifications paradigm assume about media audiences?

Project Censored posts a list of the twenty-five most censored news stories every year. These stories are "censored," though not in the sense that the media are legally prohibited from covering them. They are considered "censored" because most major media outlets have systematically ignored them and, in the process, determined what the public will think about. What theory explains this?

Sociologists tend to stop asking ________ and start asking ________ when they reject the hypodermic needle model.

In the 1990s, kids who chanted, "I want to be like Mike!" to express their admiration for Michael Jordan had

The producers, writers, and actors of Die Hard meant for the audience to cheer for the protagonist, a blue-collar hero who defeats a team of German terrorists single-handedly. If you met someone who instead was rooting for Hans Gruber, the murderous leader of the terrorists, you could say that they were

Why is the sociologist Roy Oldenburg worried that the United States seems to have so few third places?

Communication researchers who follow media ownership saw a consistent trend of _________ characterized by mergers and buyouts through the 1980s and 1990s, resulting in fewer but larger media companies in the 2000s.

Leisure is treated as a major and important topic in sociology because