Please keep at least one language enabled. || కనీసం ఒక భాషను ఎంచుకోండి.
Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Popular culture is best understood as:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Popular culture includes widely circulated forms such as television, music, sport, fashion and popular fiction.
• Option A is correct because it emphasizes both cultural products and their everyday social use.
• Popular culture is not restricted to elite institutions or pre-industrial customs.
• Cultural Studies also examines how audiences actively interpret popular forms.
• Option A is correct because it emphasizes both cultural products and their everyday social use.
• Popular culture is not restricted to elite institutions or pre-industrial customs.
• Cultural Studies also examines how audiences actively interpret popular forms.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
The term mass culture usually emphasizes:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Mass culture is commonly linked with industrial production, standardization and distribution to large audiences.
• Option B is correct because newspapers, radio, cinema and television can circulate cultural products on a mass scale.
• The term often carries critical concerns about commercialization and conformity.
• Popular culture is broader because it also includes audience appropriation and everyday use.
• Option B is correct because newspapers, radio, cinema and television can circulate cultural products on a mass scale.
• The term often carries critical concerns about commercialization and conformity.
• Popular culture is broader because it also includes audience appropriation and everyday use.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Which feature most clearly distinguishes radio from newspapers as a mass medium?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Radio is primarily an auditory medium organized through scheduled or live transmission.
• Option C is correct because newspapers depend mainly on printed text and still images.
• Radio can carry news, political debate, music and advertising to large audiences.
• Both radio and newspapers operate through institutions and may be subject to regulation.
• Option C is correct because newspapers depend mainly on printed text and still images.
• Radio can carry news, political debate, music and advertising to large audiences.
• Both radio and newspapers operate through institutions and may be subject to regulation.
వివరణ:
Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
In media studies, representation refers to:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Media representation involves selecting and organizing signs to produce meanings about people, events and identities.
• Option D is correct because media do not simply reproduce reality transparently.
• Framing, language, genre and repetition influence interpretation.
• Representations may reinforce or challenge dominant social assumptions.
• Option D is correct because media do not simply reproduce reality transparently.
• Framing, language, genre and repetition influence interpretation.
• Representations may reinforce or challenge dominant social assumptions.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
Advertising most directly links media culture with consumerism by:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Advertising rarely presents products through practical information alone.
• Option A is correct because advertisements connect commodities with beauty, success, status, freedom or belonging.
• This process turns consumption into a cultural and symbolic practice.
• Advertising therefore helps shape consumer desires and everyday identities.
• Option A is correct because advertisements connect commodities with beauty, success, status, freedom or belonging.
• This process turns consumption into a cultural and symbolic practice.
• Advertising therefore helps shape consumer desires and everyday identities.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Celebrity culture is primarily concerned with:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Celebrity culture involves the media production and circulation of recognizable public personalities.
• Option B is correct because celebrity identities are maintained through publicity, interviews, images, branding and audience attention.
• Celebrities can function as commodities and as models of aspiration.
• The phenomenon is closely connected with advertising, entertainment and consumer capitalism.
• Option B is correct because celebrity identities are maintained through publicity, interviews, images, branding and audience attention.
• Celebrities can function as commodities and as models of aspiration.
• The phenomenon is closely connected with advertising, entertainment and consumer capitalism.
వివరణ:
Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Audience studies challenges the idea of a passive mass audience by emphasizing that audiences:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Audience studies investigates how real viewers, listeners and readers engage with media.
• Option C is correct because interpretations vary according to class, gender, age, ethnicity and social experience.
• Audiences may accept, negotiate, reject or repurpose media meanings.
• This approach opposes models that treat audiences as an undifferentiated passive mass.
• Option C is correct because interpretations vary according to class, gender, age, ethnicity and social experience.
• Audiences may accept, negotiate, reject or repurpose media meanings.
• This approach opposes models that treat audiences as an undifferentiated passive mass.
వివరణ:
Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
Which situation best exemplifies an everyday cultural practice?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Everyday cultural practices include routine ways of using media, fashion, food, language and leisure.
• Option D is correct because sharing playlists communicates identity, taste and social affiliation.
• Cultural Studies examines how ordinary practices produce meanings.
• The other options are technical or administrative activities rather than clear examples of cultural self-expression.
• Option D is correct because sharing playlists communicates identity, taste and social affiliation.
• Cultural Studies examines how ordinary practices produce meanings.
• The other options are technical or administrative activities rather than clear examples of cultural self-expression.
వివరణ:
Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
Which term describes a simplified and repeatedly circulated image of a social group?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• A stereotype reduces a diverse group to a limited set of supposedly fixed characteristics.
• Option A is correct because repetition across news, entertainment and advertising can naturalize such images.
• Stereotypes are closely connected with representation and power.
• Bibliography, dialect and catharsis refer to different literary or linguistic concepts.
• Option A is correct because repetition across news, entertainment and advertising can naturalize such images.
• Stereotypes are closely connected with representation and power.
• Bibliography, dialect and catharsis refer to different literary or linguistic concepts.
వివరణ:
Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Popular fiction is distinguished from canonical literary fiction primarily by:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Popular fiction often circulates through recognizable genres such as romance, crime, fantasy and thrillers.
• Option B is correct because broad readership and commercial publishing are important features of its cultural position.
• Popular fiction may use complex techniques and engage serious political or social questions.
• The division between popular and canonical literature is historically constructed.
• Option B is correct because broad readership and commercial publishing are important features of its cultural position.
• Popular fiction may use complex techniques and engage serious political or social questions.
• The division between popular and canonical literature is historically constructed.
వివరణ:
Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
Which statement best explains the cultural importance of popular music?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Popular music is connected with identity, memory, emotion, youth culture, politics and community.
• Option C is correct because listeners use music to express personal and collective affiliations.
• Recording technologies, streaming platforms and commercial industries shape its circulation.
• Different audiences may interpret and use the same music in contrasting ways.
• Option C is correct because listeners use music to express personal and collective affiliations.
• Recording technologies, streaming platforms and commercial industries shape its circulation.
• Different audiences may interpret and use the same music in contrasting ways.
వివరణ:
Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Which of the following is NOT a typical concern of audience research?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Audience research studies interpretation, reception, pleasure, identification and media use.
• Option D is not a typical aim because audiences are socially diverse and may produce different readings.
• Viewers and fans are treated as active participants rather than identical recipients.
• Audience research may use interviews, surveys, ethnography and observation.
• Option D is not a typical aim because audiences are socially diverse and may produce different readings.
• Viewers and fans are treated as active participants rather than identical recipients.
• Audience research may use interviews, surveys, ethnography and observation.
వివరణ:
Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Statement I: Newspapers select and frame events rather than presenting reality without mediation.
Statement II: The placement, headline and vocabulary of a news report can influence its meaning.
Statement II: The placement, headline and vocabulary of a news report can influence its meaning.
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because news production involves selection, classification and framing.
• Statement II is correct because headlines, placement, images and word choice guide audience attention.
• These formal decisions contribute to media representation.
• Therefore, option A is correct.
• Statement II is correct because headlines, placement, images and word choice guide audience attention.
• These formal decisions contribute to media representation.
• Therefore, option A is correct.
వివరణ:
Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Statement I: Celebrity culture can transform a public personality into a marketable brand.
Statement II: Celebrity images remain completely separate from advertising and consumer goods.
Statement II: Celebrity images remain completely separate from advertising and consumer goods.
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because celebrity identities can be packaged, promoted and commercially licensed.
• Statement II is incorrect because celebrity endorsement closely connects public images with advertising and commodities.
• Celebrities may influence fashion, lifestyle choices and consumer aspirations.
• Hence, option B is correct.
• Statement II is incorrect because celebrity endorsement closely connects public images with advertising and commodities.
• Celebrities may influence fashion, lifestyle choices and consumer aspirations.
• Hence, option B is correct.
వివరణ:
Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Assertion: Television is a significant site of cultural representation.
Reason: Television repeatedly circulates images and narratives about class, gender, race, family and nation.
Reason: Television repeatedly circulates images and narratives about class, gender, race, family and nation.
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because television contributes to the production of shared social meanings.
• The Reason is correct because repeated narratives classify identities and normalize particular values.
• This circulation directly explains television's importance as a representational medium.
• Therefore, option A is correct.
• The Reason is correct because repeated narratives classify identities and normalize particular values.
• This circulation directly explains television's importance as a representational medium.
• Therefore, option A is correct.
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Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Assertion: Consumers may use commodities to communicate identity and social distinction.
Reason: Commodities often acquire symbolic meanings beyond their practical use.
Reason: Commodities often acquire symbolic meanings beyond their practical use.
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because clothing, technology, music and brands may signal identity or status.
• The Reason is correct because consumer goods carry cultural meanings in addition to practical functions.
• Their symbolic value explains how consumption communicates belonging and distinction.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
• The Reason is correct because consumer goods carry cultural meanings in addition to practical functions.
• Their symbolic value explains how consumption communicates belonging and distinction.
• Therefore, the Reason correctly explains the Assertion.
వివరణ:
Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Consider the following statements about popular culture:
1. It may be commercially produced.
2. Audiences can reinterpret it.
3. It is always politically resistant.
4. It forms part of everyday life.
Which statements are correct?
1. It may be commercially produced.
2. Audiences can reinterpret it.
3. It is always politically resistant.
4. It forms part of everyday life.
Which statements are correct?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because many popular forms are produced within media industries.
• Statement 2 is correct because audiences can appropriate and reinterpret cultural products.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because popular culture may reinforce dominant values as well as resist them.
• Statement 4 is correct because popular media are integrated into ordinary routines.
• Therefore, option B is correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because audiences can appropriate and reinterpret cultural products.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because popular culture may reinforce dominant values as well as resist them.
• Statement 4 is correct because popular media are integrated into ordinary routines.
• Therefore, option B is correct.
వివరణ:
Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Consider the following statements about advertising:
1. It gives commodities symbolic meanings.
2. It may connect consumption with personal identity.
3. It operates independently of consumer capitalism.
4. It uses representation to shape desire.
Which statements are correct?
1. It gives commodities symbolic meanings.
2. It may connect consumption with personal identity.
3. It operates independently of consumer capitalism.
4. It uses representation to shape desire.
Which statements are correct?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because advertising associates products with values and lifestyles.
• Statement 2 is correct because consumption may be presented as self-expression.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because advertising is central to consumer capitalism.
• Statement 4 is correct because images and narratives help organize desire.
• Hence, option C is correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because consumption may be presented as self-expression.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because advertising is central to consumer capitalism.
• Statement 4 is correct because images and narratives help organize desire.
• Hence, option C is correct.
వివరణ:
Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Match List I with List II:
List I
1. Television
2. Radio
3. Newspaper
4. Advertising
List II
I. Printed selection and framing of current events
II. Scheduled audiovisual broadcasting
III. Promotion of commodities through persuasive signs
IV. Sound-based broadcasting
List I
1. Television
2. Radio
3. Newspaper
4. Advertising
List II
I. Printed selection and framing of current events
II. Scheduled audiovisual broadcasting
III. Promotion of commodities through persuasive signs
IV. Sound-based broadcasting
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Television matches scheduled audiovisual broadcasting.
• Radio matches sound-based broadcasting.
• Newspaper matches printed selection and framing of current events.
• Advertising matches the persuasive promotion of commodities.
• Therefore, option A gives the correct matching.
• Radio matches sound-based broadcasting.
• Newspaper matches printed selection and framing of current events.
• Advertising matches the persuasive promotion of commodities.
• Therefore, option A gives the correct matching.
వివరణ:
Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Match List I with List II:
List I
1. Celebrity culture
2. Audience studies
3. Consumerism
4. Media representation
List II
I. Construction of social meaning through signs
II. Study of reception and interpretation
III. Public identity organized through visibility and publicity
IV. Acquisition of goods as an important cultural value
List I
1. Celebrity culture
2. Audience studies
3. Consumerism
4. Media representation
List II
I. Construction of social meaning through signs
II. Study of reception and interpretation
III. Public identity organized through visibility and publicity
IV. Acquisition of goods as an important cultural value
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Celebrity culture matches public identity organized through visibility and publicity.
• Audience studies matches the study of reception and interpretation.
• Consumerism matches the elevation of acquiring goods into a major cultural value.
• Media representation matches the construction of social meaning through signs.
• Thus, option B is correct.
• Audience studies matches the study of reception and interpretation.
• Consumerism matches the elevation of acquiring goods into a major cultural value.
• Media representation matches the construction of social meaning through signs.
• Thus, option B is correct.
వివరణ:
Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
Which sequence best represents the communication process studied in audience research?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Media institutions first produce texts within particular economic and cultural conditions.
• The texts then circulate through channels such as television, radio, print or digital platforms.
• Audiences interpret them through social experience and cultural knowledge.
• Therefore, option C provides the most accurate sequence.
• The texts then circulate through channels such as television, radio, print or digital platforms.
• Audiences interpret them through social experience and cultural knowledge.
• Therefore, option C provides the most accurate sequence.
వివరణ:
Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
A viewer enjoys a reality programme but criticizes its presentation of wealth as the only measure of success. This response best demonstrates:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The viewer accepts the programme as entertainment while rejecting part of its ideological message.
• Option D is correct because the response combines pleasure with critical modification.
• Audience interpretation need not be wholly accepting or wholly oppositional.
• This example illustrates active and negotiated media reception.
• Option D is correct because the response combines pleasure with critical modification.
• Audience interpretation need not be wholly accepting or wholly oppositional.
• This example illustrates active and negotiated media reception.
వివరణ:
Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
A newspaper repeatedly describes one neighbourhood only through crime reports while ignoring its cultural and community life. This is primarily an example of:
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The newspaper selects one limited aspect of the neighbourhood and repeats it as representative of the whole.
• Option A is correct because selection and framing construct a particular public image.
• Such reporting can contribute to spatial and class-based stereotypes.
• Media representation is therefore connected with visibility and cultural power.
• Option A is correct because selection and framing construct a particular public image.
• Such reporting can contribute to spatial and class-based stereotypes.
• Media representation is therefore connected with visibility and cultural power.
వివరణ:
Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Which comparison between popular culture and mass culture is most accurate?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Popular culture can refer to widely used forms and the meanings people make from them.
• Mass culture more strongly emphasizes large-scale industrial production and standardized distribution.
• Option A correctly identifies this difference in emphasis.
• The terms may overlap, but they are not necessarily identical in every theoretical context.
• Mass culture more strongly emphasizes large-scale industrial production and standardized distribution.
• Option A correctly identifies this difference in emphasis.
• The terms may overlap, but they are not necessarily identical in every theoretical context.
వివరణ:
Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which conclusion best integrates popular culture, mass media and everyday life?
Select an option first. || ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Mass media circulate representations, commodities, narratives and models of identity.
• Audiences encounter these forms through everyday routines such as viewing, listening, reading, sharing and shopping.
• Option C is correct because it recognizes both media power and audience agency.
• Popular culture is therefore produced through an interaction among institutions, texts, commerce and lived practices.
• Audiences encounter these forms through everyday routines such as viewing, listening, reading, sharing and shopping.
• Option C is correct because it recognizes both media power and audience agency.
• Popular culture is therefore produced through an interaction among institutions, texts, commerce and lived practices.
వివరణ:
Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: A. Cultural forms and practices widely circulated and used in everyday life సమాధానం: A.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: B. Large-scale production and distribution of standardized cultural goods సమాధానం: B.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. Radio primarily communicates through sound and temporal broadcasting సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. The construction of meaning through images, language and cultural codes సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: A. Attaching desirable identities and lifestyles to commodities సమాధానం: A.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: B. The production, circulation and consumption of publicly visible identities సమాధానం: B.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: C. Interpret media through varied experiences, identities and contexts సమాధానం: C.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. Sharing music playlists to express taste and group identity సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: A. Stereotype సమాధానం: A.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: B. Its association with broad readerships, recognizable genres and commercial circulation సమాధానం: B.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: C. It can organize identity, memory, emotion and collective belonging సమాధానం: C.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: D. Proving that every audience member receives an identical meaning సమాధానం: D.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: A. Both Statement I and Statement II are correct సమాధానం: A.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: B. Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect సమాధానం: B.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: A. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: A.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: B. 1, 2 and 4 only సమాధానం: B.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: C. 1, 2 and 4 only సమాధానం: C.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: A. 1-II, 2-IV, 3-I, 4-III సమాధానం: A.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: B. 1-III, 2-II, 3-IV, 4-I సమాధానం: B.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: C. Institutional production → media text → circulation → audience interpretation సమాధానం: C.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: D. A selective and negotiated audience interpretation సమాధానం: D.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: A. Media representation shaped by selective framing సమాధానం: A.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: A. Popular culture includes active cultural use, while mass culture emphasizes industrial scale and standardization సమాధానం: A.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: C. Popular media circulate commercial representations, but audiences incorporate and reinterpret them in daily life సమాధానం: C.