The Slow Food movement originally began in Italy in 1989. Representing not just a shift in the production of food, Italians wished to hold on to their cultural values of food. Slow food means everything from production to consumption, an idea that most developed countries are less in touch with than developing countries. Where developed countries must focus their food intake … [Read more...]
Think Before You Eat
There’s no question that almost any type of food has a much richer and more complex history than we assume; all of the articles for the Slow Food case study provided multiple examples of food that held both a deeper social meaning and specific cultural ties to a group (or groups) of people. One such example that is especially relevant in the Southwest United … [Read more...]
The Influence of Spongebob Squarepants
As a child, I always loved Spongebob. To this day, I still do. One memory that stands out the most, however, was going to the Dominican Republic and being able to watch Spongebob in Spanish. In Moran and Chung's article "Global or Local Identity? A theoretical analysis of the role of Viacom on identity formation among children in an international context," Moran and Chung … [Read more...]
HBO vs. Netflix: The Future of HBO and HBO Now
HBO to Netflix The speculation around Viacom's disconcerting performance detailed in "Viacom is Having a Midlife Crisis" by Felix Gillette was especially eye-opening in relation to mass media and how I think about TV/entertainment today. I don't really watch TV or any of the "popular" networks under Viacom's umbrella. However, I do occasionally watch Friday Night Lights and … [Read more...]
Industrial Production of Culture: MTV VMAs
Clayton Rosati's article, MTV: 360° of the Industrial Production of Culture, is largely about the conditions under which culture is produced by media corporations for the purpose of accumulating global capital. The four most crucial aspects of the industrial production of culture are the "competitive consolidation of advertising platforms,... precise modes of data collection, … [Read more...]
