This document discusses the influence of pop culture in America and beyond. It covers topics like how kids influence over $130 billion in spending, the prevalence of advertising messages which some studies estimate are over 5,000 per day, and how advertisers aim to sell an idealized version of oneself to consumers. It also examines the objectification of people in media and links this to rising rates of body dysmorphia, eating disorders, and the promotion of unrealistic body standards.

1. Unit 2-2 Pop Culture: Cultural Influence in America and Beyond

2. Folk Culture (high) Traditional and non-mainstream cultural activities that are non financially driven.

3. Pop Culture (low) Those systems or artifacts that most people share and that most people know about (TV, music, videos, magazines, etc. . . .)

4. Consuming Pop-Culture

6. TELEVISION Kids influence over $130 billion of their parents money Kids spend $8 billion of their own

7. Channel One – Costs the US $1.8 billion in lost education time annually

8. Magazines

9. Radio

10. Advertising

11. Why Study Advertising in Intercultural Communication?

12. 1) Pervasive Function

17. You see over 3,000 Advertising messages per day. - Dr. Jean Kilbourne (1999)

18. You see over 5,000 Advertising messages per day. - Advertising Age (2000)

19. This number will increase ten fold in the next five years because of the new Internet advertising

22. $200 Billion on Advertising 1) $250,000 to make a commercial 2) $250,000 to air a commercial 3) $1 Million to air a commercial during the Academy Awards 4) $1.5 Million to air a commercial during the Super bowl (Victoria’s Secret)

23. What do Advertisers Sell?

24. YOU!!! 

29. 1998 Mike Cameron Was suspended from school because he wore a Pepsi shirt on a school sanctioned “Coke” day in Evans, GA.

31. According to a 2006 study by Bolt Media, Only One in Four 2- to 34-year-olds Can Name Broadcast Networks. ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox

34. Abercrombie And Fitch Experiment

44. OBJECTIFICATION Turning a human’s body into an “object among other objects in the world” – Dr. Jean Kilbourne

49. Objectification & Sex $EX $ELL$

52. Michael Pfau (1994) Men need more intensive messages for the persuasion to be as strong as weaker messages are for females.

55. Many Advertisers take Culturally Oriented Political Stances as well

56. Why Might You Ask? 1. African Americans spend more than $446 billion more than the GNP of Switzerland 2. Gay and Lesbian Markets – Virtually untapped with a lot of expendable income

57. 3. The Elderly – Over 50 - Spend $60 Million Annually on Grandchildren - Spend $30 Billion on Travel - More likely to be On-line than any other sub-population in the US - By 2020 there will be 96 million over the age of 50 – 43% of all adults in the US

62. Advertising’s True Effects We live in a Toxic Culture

73. Representing Cultural Groups A. Foreigner’s Perceptions of US Culture B. Popular Culture and Stereotyping

75. Effects of Consumerism Fill out the Body Dysmorphia Scale on pages 72-74.

76. Body Dysmorphia An inaccurate, unrealistic, and pathological appraisal of one’s physical appearance.

78. Anorexia Nervosa When an individual is at 85% of what their normal weight should be for someone their height and age.

79. Bulimia Tendency to over eat (binge) followed by some form of purging: self-induced vomiting, diuretics, emetic abuse, excessive exercise, fasting, and/or laxatives.

80. Binge Eating Disorder Eating, in a discrete period of time (e.g., within any 2-hour period), an amount of food that is clearly larger than what most people would eat in a similar period of time under similar circumstances. i