Instructions Analyze: Artifact of Popular Culture Evaluation Title: The Business of Pop Culture We have seen throughout this course how popular culture influences our attitudes, both positively and negatively. In this final paper, you will examine an artifact in pop culture to determine its message and effect. For this assignment, select an artifact that, in your opinion, unfairly creates a negative bias or promotes a negative stereotype about one population of society. The pop culture artifact can be a media source (song, movie, television program), a product or other tangible associated with pop culture. Provide a link to this artifact (or an image). Explain why you have selected this artifact, and why you feel that this creates a negative bias. Describe how you would re-design or re-write the script of this artifact to change the way others would view this population. In your paper: Provide a specific link to pop culture artifact used for this paper or an image of the artifact. Discuss the artifact in depth. Explain the stereotypes or biases that you see being perpetuated in the artifact. Discuss the role of popular culture in communicating harmful or incorrect stereotypes or biases. Using the concepts, terminology, and ideas within Units 1-7, recommendations for how people can identify and correct views that are incorrect or harmful. Re-design or re-write this artifact to change the way others could view this population without the negative bias. Be sure to support this revised artifact with factual examples of the culture. Specifications: Submit a 1200-1500 word essay addressing the questions above. In your essay: Be sure to structure your essay with an introduction paragraph that includes a thesis statement, well-organized supporting paragraphs, and a conclusion that reiterates the main points of your argument. Your argument should be supported by reputable research cited in APA format both in the body of the paper and in your references section.

The following question has a paragraph which is followed by four alternative summaries. Choose the alternative that best captures the essence of the paragraph.The term ‘popular culture’ holds different meanings depending on who’s defining it and the context of use. It is generally recognized as the vernacular or people’s culture that predominates in a society at a point in time. As Brummett explains in Rhetorical Dimensions of Popular Culture, pop culture involves the aspects of social life most actively involved in by the public. As the ‘culture of the people’, popular culture is determined by the interactions between people in their everyday activities: styles of dress, the use of slang, greeting rituals and the foods that people eat are all examples of popular culture.Brummett defines pop culture as an amalgamation of various cultural aspects of society.Pop culture is understood as the predominant vernacular of society at a given point of time.Pop culture represents the everyday activities of people such as dress, slang, rituals and foods.Pop culture has several contextual meanings that change from person to person.

The term ‘popular culture’ holds different meanings depending on who’s defining it and the context of use. It is generally recognized as the vernacular or people’s culture that predominates in a society at a point in time. As Brummett explains in Rhetorical Dimensions of Popular Culture, pop culture involves the aspects of social life most actively involved in by the public. As the ‘culture of the people’, popular culture is determined by the interactions between people in their everyday activities: styles of dress, the use of slang, greeting rituals and the foods that people eat are all examples of popular culture.Brummett defines pop culture as an amalgamation of various cultural aspects of society.Pop culture is understood as the predominant vernacular of society at a given point of time.Pop culture represents the everyday activities of people such as dress, slang, rituals and foods.Pop culture has several contextual meanings that change from person to person.

Our perception of culture is most influenced by:Group of answer choicesThe observable cultural artefactsThe way people dress and speakOur own cultural lens and assumptionsScheins cultural dimensions

Popular culture is further broken down into six subdefinitions. The first is culture that is popular or valued by others by measurable means, such as sales of songs, playing on the radio, attending screenings or concerts, and ratings of viewers on TV shows. Question 8Select one:TrueFalse

Question 1 Tips 5 pts Which statement is true about popular culture and stereotypes? Group of answer choices Popular media often reinforces existing stereotypes of different ethnic groups. People have no choice but to accept stereotypes presented in the media. People who have limited experience with other cultures can easily detect stereotypes about other cultures that are presented in the media Stereotypes are primarily developed by foreign newspapers. Flag question: Question 2 Question 2 Tips 5 pts Which of the following communication style dimensions emphasizes direct, language-based approaches to communicating? Group of answer choices high context indirect low context understated Flag question: Question 3 Question 3 Tips 5 pts What is the primary reason that people code switch? Group of answer choices to accommodate other speakers to engage in conflict with others to show their patriotism to demonstrate their language ability Flag question: Question 4 Question 4 Tips 5 pts The lowest point of the culture shock U-Curve is... Group of answer choices rejection anxiety euphoria adjustment Flag question: Question 5 Question 5 Tips 5 pts Which of the following is true about nonverbal behavior? Group of answer choices There is little cultural variation in how nonverbal communication is used. It carries less meaning than verbal messages. The lower a person's status, the more likely the person is to use large, expansive gestures. We are rarely conscious of our nonverbal behaviors. Flag question: Question 6 Question 6 Tips 5 pts bell hooks argues that the representations we see in popular culture are... Group of answer choices random inevitable conscious manipulations unconscious manipulations Flag question: Question 7 Question 7 Tips 5 pts How words are sounded out -- or pronounced -- is which component of language use? Group of answer choices Pragmatics Semantics Syntactics Phonology Flag question: Question 8 Question 8 Tips 5 pts Which of these is not discussed as an element of the tourist - host encounter? Group of answer choices Equal Power Dynamic Transitory Short Term Commercialized Flag question: Question 9 Question 9 Tips 5 pts During an international business meeting, if you prioritize what people are specifically saying as the most important part of the meeting, you're emphasizing what style of communication? Group of answer choices Indirect Harmony Honesty Direct Flag question: Question 10 Question 10 Tips 5 pts "Dog whistles" are used in political speech to get a reaction from a specific audience. Group of answer choices True False Flag question: Question 11 Question 11 Tips 5 pts Because English is spoken by so many people in the world, it's appropriate to assume people are comfortable speaking it when we're traveling internationally. Group of answer choices True False Give the answers to all 11 questions, please.