Terminology choices encode assumptions about how culture is produced

Evidence

The term cultural industries foregrounds the capitalist mode of production that is fundamental to how contemporary culture is usually organized, especially in capitalist nations. With the rise of digital media, particularly video gaming, social media, and short-form video, which tend to be strongly associated with the technology or platform they are engaged through, the term legacy media is now used to categorize predigital forms such as news, books, music, television, and film, despite their reinvention in the digital era. — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, 28

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘cultural industries’ as foregrounding capitalist production and ‘legacy media’ as predigital forms.
• XREF: connects to: the MOC “The Word Is a Fence: Language as Battleground, Property, and Partition”