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What is Mass Culture

Gender and Diversity Representation in Mass Media
Mass culture emerged in the years following the industrial revolution. The concept of mass culture defines all the power, behaviors, mythos, and phenomena which are difficult to resist and which are produced by industrial techniques and spread to a very large masses. Mass culture products are standard cultural products produced and transmitted by mass media only for the mass market.
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A Rebellion Against the Metallization of the Female Body: “Dove Beyond Figures”
Rengim Sine Nazlı (Bolu Abant Izzet Baysal University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-0128-3.ch007
Abstract
Media is used as an important tool in the uniformization of the female body metallized on the axis of consumption culture. Ads are of special importance in order for these bodies, which are standardized by media bodies, to reach every segment of the society. The beauty measures of each period are introduced with these films as the main determinant for women to be happy. Moreover, these measures, which are a means of domination, can cause illnesses in which women sometimes lose their lives. In such an environment, Unilever's Dove, a personal care brand, launched a campaign called mark Beyond Figures. It continued to act with this approach in advertising films. In this study, it is aimed to determine how women analyze advertising films beyond the figures. The interviews that will be evaluated in the context of coding, criterion will be examined by reception analysis.
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The Mediation of Identity: Key Issues in Historic Perspective
Generally refers to media-driven cultural practices within modern “mass societies” which arose in tandem with techniques of mass production and commercial advertising. Culture is understood to be “manufactured” according to market imperatives rather than arising spontaneously from within the localized community.
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Information Technologies and Social Change
A form of culture produced by the culture industry.
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