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    Media and Popular Culture March‚ 2009 Let us face the facts‚ mass media and popular culture need each other to coexist. Furthermore‚ in today’s society the mass media serves the interest of popular culture. Moreover‚ it is the vehicle of free speech in a diverse‚ multicultural society. In addition‚ mass media refers to communication via radio‚ televisions‚ movie theaters‚ television‚ newspapers‚ magazines‚ and‚ etc; thereby‚ reaching out to the larger audience. On the contrary‚ popular culture

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    Defining Popular American Culture The study of culture is very important to our society‚ as we have been studying our past and identities for as long as we can recall. Studying our cultures allows us to understand each other as a people‚ so we can comprehend what we have done‚ and possibly‚ what we may do. As we study American popular culture‚ we see something that began as almost nothing‚ to a group of patterns that has captured the minds of not only the American people themselves‚ but the whole

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    American Popular Culture Leonel Gutierrez SOC/ 105 September 11‚ 2012 Gregory Shrout American Popular Culture Our communities are built on a foundation whose culture we build. Through our culture‚ we define who we are as individuals and how our societies influence our communities. American popular culture has a great influence on our personal decisions and is a very important aspect of our lifestyle. Through television‚ magazines‚ newspapers‚ music‚ sports

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    Popular Culture Deanna Sellnow clearly explains the idea of popular culture in her article “What is Popular Culture and Why Study It?”. Popular culture is a very difficult concept to understand. After reading Sellnow’s article however‚ pop culture is simply just how people’s lives should apparently be. People watch television shows and see the families and think thats how their family should be or they see the actor’s actions and think thats how they should act as well. Popular culture is just

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    American Popular Culture SOC/105 August‚ 22‚ 2013 American Popular Culture In late 19th century America made ​​two tempting and attractive promises; freedom and land (The Johns Hopkins University‚ 2002). These promises brought many immigrants with the hope of seeing their dreams realized. America today is a multicultural country provides shelter to thousands of immigrants with different cultural background. The Oxford Dictionary define culture as “the arts

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    Meghan Balmer 10/20/10 Popular Culture Critical Survey Project It would be hard for one to dispute the fact that MTV has influenced every pop culture trend since its birth in 1981. One could even say that MTV is pop culture. No other media network holds in the palm of its hand the power to control popular cultural evolution the way MTV does. What other media network has influenced and help shape public opinion‚ filmmaking‚ newsgathering techniques‚ presidential politics‚ and world politics

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    Popular culture is often characterised by feature films and television serials which target a broad audience in an effort to systematically convey social commentary through inviting the perception of the viewer to interpret representations of everyday roles. This concept is central to ’Reel to real: Popular culture and teacher identity’‚ in which Mitchell and Weber (1999) encourage their audience to challenge the status quo of the teacher role as commonly perceived by society. Particularly‚ the text

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    Reflections of Pop Culture on Society Popular culture‚ commonly referred to as "pop culture"‚ is constantly changing and heavily influencing people worldwide; one can hardly tell the history of the human race without some mention of pop culture. Pop culture molds and defines the beliefs and values‚ as well as‚ influences the actions of society. Social media‚ as well as the natural ache we all carry to fit in‚ pushes people to embrace and succumb to pop culture. Pop culture greatly influences

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    contribute to our understanding of the media and popular culture? Psychoanalysis is the science of the unconscious functions of the mind and personality. The theories originate from Austrian neurologist‚ Sigmund Freud. He discovered these as a treatment for health problems and also as a way to understanding more about your mind. In this essay I am going to discuss how these theories discovered many years ago have contributed to popular culture and media. Sigmund Freud divided the soul into

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    and thus large audiences 2. Segmentation -> refinement in the business model Advertisers could separate groups based on the type of audience Packaging up demographic groups and selling them to advertisers Principles of the production of popular culture Contradictions embedded -> what aspects of reinforce the current system and which are against it We have a classes system -> Marxists think that these classes are submissive Late 1800s – early 1900s -> working class and what they talked about

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