Mass media emerged with agrarian capitalism as culture itself became a commodity.

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• Media are sites of struggle with relative autonomy from state and capital. (similarity 0.88)
• The commercial mass press was built atop the destruction of the working-class press (similarity 0.86)
• Modern media forms emerged when agrarian capitalism commodified artistic production (similarity 0.82)
• Cultural meaning shifts with the social field it enters (similarity 0.82)
• Culture as shared meaning-making became democratized rather than elite civilization. (similarity 0.82)
• Cultural influence detached from popular masses lacks real political weight (similarity 0.81)
• Marx treats culture as a productive force materialized in labor and language (similarity 0.81)
• The modern media emerged with eighteenth-century agrarian capitalism (similarity 0.81)
• Popular culture refers not to one class but an alliance of subordinated classes (similarity 0.80)
• Terminology choices encode assumptions about how culture is produced (similarity 0.80)
• Cultural Studies never resolved how mass society and mass markets interrelate (similarity 0.80)
• Calls for new culture come from socially displaced old strata, not new ones (similarity 0.80)
• Positivist media research defended pluralist assumptions about American society (similarity 0.80)
• Mass adhesion is the critical test of an ideology’s historical rationality (similarity 0.80)
• Cultural meanings are unstable and shift with the social field (similarity 0.80)