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What is Culture Industry

Chapter 409
Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition
Industrialization of culture and commodification of cultural products.
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Information Technologies and Social Change
Muhammet Ali Köroğlu (Uşak University, Turkey) and Cemile Zehra Köroğlu (Uşak University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 8
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2255-3.ch409
Abstract
There are turning points in human history changed the destiny of humanity: Representing the transition from hunting-gathering to agriculture, Agricultural Revolution or the Neolithic Revolution. French Revolution that took place in 18th century and the Industrial Revolution providing the transition from the agricultural economy to industrial economy. From 19th century, Information Revolution, the whole world has experienced the effects of it in varying degrees. Information Science and technologies have become areas that their communities give the greatest importance for them and they make maximum investments to them in the globalized world conditions. As Daniel Bell describes, Industrial society left its place to Post-industrial society which is an Information society in a sense.
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Popular Culture and Media Intellectuals: Relationship Between Popular Culture and Capitalism – The Characteristics of the Media Intellectuals
Refers to the cultures being industrialized and their reduction into a means of dominance for the governing authority after being decontextualized.
Published in Chapter: Popular Culture and Media Intellectuals: Relationship Between Popular Culture and Capitalism – The Characteristics of the Media Intellectuals; From: Handbook of Research on Consumption, Media, and Popular Culture in the Global Age
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A Rebellion Against the Metallization of the Female Body: “Dove Beyond Figures”
The claim that culture itself is an industry and that culture products have become commodities is the source of the concept of culture industry.
Published in Chapter: A Rebellion Against the Metallization of the Female Body: “Dove Beyond Figures”; From: Gender and Diversity Representation in Mass Media
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Transformation of Entertainment Culture throughout Society and History
Culture industry is a system that standardizes cultural products and harmonizes them with the dominant ideology. The logic of the system penetrates into people who are the consumers of these products. Thus, the prevailing norms of the system are legitimized.
Published in Chapter: Transformation of Entertainment Culture throughout Society and History; From: Handbook of Research on the Impact of Culture and Society on the Entertainment Industry
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