···1.·该剧中的佣人们绝对比纯洁的「上层」社会，更为吸睛、诱人；确实，该电视节目的第一季反映了当时英国新左派阶级的思维。另外，《上层底层》的第一集是由女性主义小说家菲·维尔登（Fay Weldon）来撰写，因此出现女佣的观点也绝非巧合。
···2.·“American Time Survey: Leisure and Sports Activities: Leisure Time on an Average Day,” U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Washington, D.C., last modified December 20, 2016, https://www.bls.gov/TUS/CHARTS/LEISURE.HTM.
···3.·以Netflix耗资一亿五千万美元所拍摄的《王冠》（The Crown）电视剧为例，该剧的内容以伊丽莎白女王二世和皇室为主轴，其中一集更是以首度在电视上播放的女王加冕仪式为主题：藉由透过电视向其子民们分享仪式的极其豪奢辉煌，这名君主得以分散人民对于战后配给与艰辛日子的关注。
···4.·Felicia R. Lee, “Being a Housewife Where Neither House nor Husband Is Needed,” New York Times, March 5, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/05/arts/television/05real.html.
···5.·Nicholas Confessore and Karen Yourish, “$2 Billion Worth of Free Media for Donald Trump,” New York Times, March 15, 2016, https://www.nytimes .com/2016/03/16/upshot/measuring-donald-trumps-mammoth -advantage-in-free-media.html.
···6.·Will Wilkinson, “The Majesty of Trump,” New York Times, November 2016, https://www.nytimes.com /interactive/projects/cp/opinion/election-night-2016/the-majesty -of-trump.
···7.·Michael Lerner, “Stop Shaming Trump Supporters,” New York Times, November 9, 2016, https://www .nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/opinion/election-night-2016/stop-shaming-trump-supporters.
···8.·Lev Manovich and Alise Tifentale, “Our Main Findings,” Selfiecity, http://www .selfiecity.net/#findings.
···9.·Mark R. Leary, “Scholarly reflections on the ‘Selfie,’” OUPblog, November 19, 2013, https://blog.oup.com /2013/11/scholarly-reflections-on-the-selfie-woty-2013/. Leary was asked, along with several other scholars, to write a short reflection; the article is not attributed to him.
10.·「生产性消费」（Prosumption），该词最初是由艾文·托佛勒（Alvin Toffler）所创造，用于描述同时具备生产（production）与消费（consumption）意义的单一动作。我们透过社群媒体，提供给朋友一个美化并改造过的自己。而在这些动作之中隐藏着一定的期待，希望这些图像能提升我们的总体社会资本，并掩饰自己那正在走下坡的记者或法律生涯。
11.·如果再往前走，回到一个电视尚未吸引所有人目光的时代，那些以我国（美国）历史上经济最黑暗时期──大萧条时期为主题的电影，其所展现出来的富人生活，尤其出名。贫苦的美国人民成群结队地排着队，只希望能一赌屏幕中那穿着飘逸洋装的美女，以及令人心醉神迷的音乐。而对于不平等的呈现，往往是透过如《我的戈佛雷》（My Man Godfrey（译注：没有官方翻译）这样的电影呈现：原本为游民的主角，在任性富家女的命令下，参加了该时代的一％盛宴；或如《大国民》（Citizen Kane）中，经营着报业帝国的主角查尔斯·福斯特·凯恩（Charles Foster Kane）那样。
12.·Thomas Doherty, “Storied TV: Cable Is the New Novel,” Chronicle of Higher Education, September 17, 2012, http://www.chronicle.com/article/Cable-Is-the-New-Novel/134420.
13.·America’sShrinkingMiddleClass: A Close Look at Changes within Metropolitan Areas,” Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C., May 11, 2016, http://www .pewsocialtrends.org/2016/05/11/americas-shrinking-middle-class -a-close-look-at-changes-within-metropolitan-areas/.
14.·Michael Z. Newman and Elana Levine, Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status (New York: Routledge, 2012).
