Question 1

Discuss a few of the ways in which working-class people tend to do different things with their leisure time than wealthy elites do.

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Question 2

Is leisure the opposite of work? Why or why not?

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Question 3

What are the three developments that have changed the way leisure and recreation are experienced today?

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Question 4

How has the media always been an instrument of the state as well as a tool for social change?

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Question 5

How has technology changed the way recreational activities are organized?

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Question 6

What does Henry Jenkins mean by the term "textual poaching," describing the way some audience members consume mass media?

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Question 7

According to Imaginary Social Worlds by John Caughey,encounters with celebrities are the contemporary equivalent of interacting with gods,spirits,or ancestors.How do these interactions take place?

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Question 8

Describe and explain the key differences among the three major theories that explain how mass media are consumed by mass audiences (the magic bullet or hypodermic needle model,the uses and gratifications model,and the encoding/decoding model).

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Question 9

How is media in the United States a profitable export?

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Question 10

How has the decline of public life affected recreation and leisure?

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Question 11

The poor or working class have considerably more leisure time than the wealthy do.Discuss several reasons why this may occur.

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Question 12

What does it mean to say that there has been a "massive increase in the commodification of recreational activities"?

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Question 13

What is ecotourism? What are the arguments for and against ecotourism?

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Question 14

Define the terms "recreation" and "leisure." Why does it seem particularly important today to study recreation and leisure?

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Question 15

David Harvey has argued that as the economy has become capable of producing goods more efficiently and rapidly,there have to be parallel increases in the rate at which we purchase and consume goods.How has this happened? Give at least one example from the text as well as one of your own.

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Quiz 13: Leisure and Media