DIY culture

this paper is “DIY culture” from a YouTube video blog (vlog) project done in RTA 102 Creative Processes. The vlog series is created from the perspective of a middle-aged father, Henry, working as a volunteer for an environmental organization called Evergreen. The main focus of the vlog series is DIY gardening tutorials at home while raising awareness of environmental issues. This paper will be exploring DIY culture from a techno-determinist perspective. D.I.Y.C.A.T Do-It-Yourself Culture After Technology

10 DIY Rustic Wedding Ideas Thought of weddings spreads smiles and hope of love and admiration. Rustic weddings are getting popular these days though the effervescence of wedding remains the same but people wish to bring in a positive change. The best part of rustic wedding is you don’t have to spend lavishly on the arrangements and DIY techniques comes handy. Do-It-Yourself inspires you and it gives immense satisfaction to the doer and adds personal touch to the occasion. Wedding is not one man

Gao (2013) suggests that there is a need for marketers to develop different products or services when consumers in a foreign culture have different needs. According Gao (2013) The Home Depot had misjudged its target market and didn’t understand its Chinese consumers. “National cultures determines business models, and regional subcultures further refine business models” (Gao.2013). Gao further goes on to argue that is important for international retailers

the conformity of global civilization and cultural environments resulting in an increase of consumer cultures (Sarmela, 1977; Chaney, 2004). As capitalism experiences a natural and unavoidable expansion, consumers engage with consumer culture creating invisible products such as social status, identity, cultures, and ethical relationships (Sternberg, 2017). There are two sides to consumer culture that are the values held by society; those who conform and those who rebel (Turow & McAllister, 2014)

Pinterest boards and YouTube videos that deliver makeup tutorials flood social media. Television shows that chronicle cupcake shops and DIY home improvement flourish. As these feminized forms of media thrive in the pop culture of our early twenty-first century, contemporary gender scholars take up the task of analyzing the social, economic, and cultural meaning they create. Does fashion blogging reify certain norms of femininity, or challenge them? What does the act of selling cupcakes have to do

growing wealth in Asia, created the option to lower costs even more due to economies of scale. The ability to keep selling standardized products however is decreasing quickly with this expansion of the company. IKEA has experienced first-hand that cultures differ too much to keep the old system of ‘one-size-fits-all’

thus, 60s protest songs, The Salt of the Earth, Clancey Segals novels or Sol Yuricks, chicano murals, and the San Francisco Mime Troop. This is not the place to raise the complicated problem of political art today, except to say that our business as culture critics requires us to raise it, and to rethink what are still essentially 30s categories in some new and more satisfactory contemporary way. (Jameson 139)I initially read this quote as a praise of political art as so worthy an object of study that

When I was in high school, my best friend Nigel and I were in a few of the same classes, and during freshman year we sat next to each other in a technical class. One day he pointed out that if we were doing the same thing, he would get yelled at and I wouldn’t. We did a small social experiment; I played Tetris in the middle of class, and he did the classwork we were assigned. One day, I’d cleared about 20 rows when our teacher came over and yelled at Nigel to “get off his word game” – he was typing

In the information economy, creative content is a nation’s most important natural resource. “The wealth creation in an economy of ideas is dependent on the capacity of a nation to continually create content or new forms of widely distributed expression, for which they will need to invest in creative human capital throughout the economy and not merely gadgets and hardware.” (Venturelli 14). We may assume then that in the 21st century, artists will finally be able to earn a living. Industrial Age

consuming. In 1991, Lollapalooza, a multi city touring festival in the United States, highlighting alternative culture changed how music was consumed from there on forward. With the popularity of the festival and the highlighting of the alternative culture it represented the music industry took note, not long after the festival and explosion of alternative music hit mainstream music culture. New bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots and bands who had been