UGRD-GE6108 Philippine Popular Culture Quiz 1 PDF

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UGRD-GE6108 Philippine Popular Culture Quiz 1 According to National Artist for Literature Bienvenido Lumbera in his book Revaluation: Essays on Philippine Literature, Theatre, and Modern Culture (1984), popular culture is very distinct from Filipino folk culture and nationalistic culture. True Accor...

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UGRD-GE6108 Philippine Popular Culture Quiz 1 1. According to National Artist for Literature Bienvenido Lumbera in his book Revaluation: Essays on Philippine Literature, Theatre, and Modern Culture (1984), popular culture is very distinct from Filipino folk culture and nationalistic culture. - True 2. According to the 2013 Yahoo-Nielsen Survey, the top three media consumption outlets in the Philippines come from television, radio and the increasingly growing usage of the internet. - True 3. According to Lumbera, the local intelligentsia noted that "Popular literature as a product intended for a mass market was seen as a challenge to serious artistic practice, since the writers accommodated his art to the demands of the publishers and editors who were more interested in sales than in aesthetics." - True 4. Along with the power to use the internet is the reporter's power provided to the netizen for a netizen may actually be a source of primary knowledge about certain topics or issues. - True 5. According to Lumbera, "Popular culture is power, and anyone who uses it to control minds is likely to have their literary and technical machinery turned against him when the minds he has exploited discover his power as a political tool." - True 6. International culture is the culture produced by colonial resistance, with a people's group at a given time and location. - False 7. The rise of American colonization introduced to the Philippines the properly so-called, mainstream culture. - True 8. Forms of popular theater and literature such as "the pasyon, sinakulo, and corido ensured Muslim's acceptance and spread, and the comedy and awit did the same for the monarchy. - False 9. The native intelligentsia used the same types of popular culture in the 19th century, through the Propaganda movement, to "undermine the influence of the oppressive friars and mobilize the people to bring an end to colonial rule" One example of that is Marcelo H. Del Pilar's work. - True 10. The word netizen, although popularly used in present times, is in fact a word from Michael Hauben's theory (1996) is a corrupted term from the expression "Net Person." - True 11. Pop culture is the way to live in a specific time, place, and depicts a few people's habits and how they can cope with nature. - False 12. The common culture is produced by the masses ... it is rather a culture generated either by the ruling masses or by representatives of the intelligentsia in the employment of that mass, for the consumption of the people. - False

13. According to Lumbera, the Spaniards developed and used popular culture in the Philippines to the native Filipinos or Indios through plays and literature to get the natives 'hearts and win them over. - True 14. According to Turner, as reporters prefer to bend the reporting to stories they sometimes support. Tabloidization is a clear example of this, or sensationalizing small news stories and making a big deal of it. - True 15. Hauben deeply warns that the internet can be a "source of opinion," though he says a netizen should train him/her to distinguish real from fabricated knowledge. - True 16. Global culture as adopted by the Spanish has been "ordinary" to the point that it was a "watering-down of Spanish-European culture in order to win over the general public to the colonial regime's 'ideology.' - True 17. The first permanent settlement in Spain started to replace the native culture with a Muslim and Middle Eastern tradition. - False 18. The liberal approach towards the printing press quickly expanded the dissemination of types of popular culture through radio, television and film. - True 19. Under the tutelage of missionaries, the children of the native elite became a central community of intelligentsia called 'ladinos' as they were instrumental in 'taking into the vernacular, literary forms which were to be instruments for the' peace 'of the natives.' - True 20. According to Hauben as netizens, in actual fact, geographical separation is replaced by the presence in the same virtual space called "Yahoo." - False...