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Catttt Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary
reference of "them"
1. Does the highlighted "them" refer to "digital technologies" or "innovative amusements"? (I think the latter)
2. Does "Youth culture" refer to "the independent youth" or "the gaming industry"? (I think the latter)
3. What does "corporate leisure" mean? (I think it means industrial amusements produced by amusement industries)
Context:
A second feature, following from this, relates to the fact of younger people devising their own independent organised entertainment, as opposed to being subject exclusively and continuously to the consumerist forms of corporate leisure. The utilisation, precisely, of digital technologies to institute ‘free fun in the city’ arguably represents a form of ‘up yours’ to the confining ‘indoors enticements’ of the gaming industry, for example. Youth culture’s devising of its own diverse amusements in this way invariably produces corporate attempts to harness and exploit them to its own ends in whatever way it can. Thus, these commercial industries can be said to be both threatened by and grateful for the innovation of such independent innovations.
An example of precisely such corporate co-option is sent as a gift from heaven just as I write these words. At 9.10pm on Friday 16 January 2009 a major global telecommunications company premiered an extended advertisement on...
2. Does "Youth culture" refer to "the independent youth" or "the gaming industry"? (I think the latter)
3. What does "corporate leisure" mean? (I think it means industrial amusements produced by amusement industries)
Context:
A second feature, following from this, relates to the fact of younger people devising their own independent organised entertainment, as opposed to being subject exclusively and continuously to the consumerist forms of corporate leisure. The utilisation, precisely, of digital technologies to institute ‘free fun in the city’ arguably represents a form of ‘up yours’ to the confining ‘indoors enticements’ of the gaming industry, for example. Youth culture’s devising of its own diverse amusements in this way invariably produces corporate attempts to harness and exploit them to its own ends in whatever way it can. Thus, these commercial industries can be said to be both threatened by and grateful for the innovation of such independent innovations.
An example of precisely such corporate co-option is sent as a gift from heaven just as I write these words. At 9.10pm on Friday 16 January 2009 a major global telecommunications company premiered an extended advertisement on...
Top answer
Hi 1. 'Them' refers to the diverse amusements that have been devised by young people. The corporate industry attempts to take over and exploit those ideas 2.
- Hi 1.
- 'Them' refers to the diverse amusements that have been devised by young people.
- The corporate industry attempts to take over and exploit those ideas 2.
- 'Youth culture' refers to the culture shared by the young people.
- They create their own amusements amongst themselves but big business tries to mimic those things in order to exploit the young people 3.
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1. 'Them' refers to the diverse amusements that have been devised by young people. The corporate industry attempts to take over and exploit those ideas
2. 'Youth culture' refers to the culture shared by the young people. They create their own amusements amongst themselves but big business tries to mimic those things in order to exploit the young people
3. Yes, tha
1. 'Them' refers to the diverse amusements that have been devised by young people. The corporate industry attempts to take over and exploit those ideas
2. 'Youth culture' refers to the culture shared by the young people. They create their own amusements amongst themselves but big business tries to mimic those things in order to exploit the young people
3. Yes, tha
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dave_anon2. 'Youth culture' refers to the culture shared by the young people. They create their own amusements amongst themselves but big business tries to mimic those things in order to exploit the young peopleSo, do the highlighted "its" and "it" refer to "corporate industry"? Meaning that "Youth culture devises its own diverse amusements and it always ends
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