What is popular culture, and what does it mean to you?
Popular culture is driven by economics, education, exposure, emotion, and sensation. The economics factor: items are mass produced giving essentially everyone a chance to experience them. The education factor: the great thing about popular culture is you don't have to have a superior education to enjoy it. The exposure factor: exposure, exposure, exposure! The emotion and sensation factor: that song you listen to that makes you want to sing along with it (emotion), or the feeling you get when your team wins the big game (sensation). To me popular culture is everything that surrounds us from our computers, to movies we watch, to sports, to cell phones, and much more. We have this idea that if it makes us feel good or important then we must have it and once everyone starts feeling this way ideas and products become a part of popular culture.
Why is an understanding of popular culture relevant to you in a business environment and in your present and future career?
Popular culture is relevant in a business environment because it essentially drives economics. With everything being mass produced we need to understand how these items and ideas affect today's businesses. With that said it is important to have an understanding of popular culture for our careers because it influences who we are as people. When we have a better understanding of the people around us we can work better as a team.
Popular culture is driven by economics, education, exposure, emotion, and sensation. The economics factor: items are mass produced giving essentially everyone a chance to experience them. The education factor: the great thing about popular culture is you don't have to have a superior education to enjoy it. The exposure factor: exposure, exposure, exposure! The emotion and sensation factor: that song you listen to that makes you want to sing along with it (emotion), or the feeling you get when your team wins the big game (sensation). To me popular culture is everything that surrounds us from our computers, to movies we watch, to sports, to cell phones, and much more. We have this idea that if it makes us feel good or important then we must have it and once everyone starts feeling this way ideas and products become a part of popular culture.
Why is an understanding of popular culture relevant to you in a business environment and in your present and future career?
Popular culture is relevant in a business environment because it essentially drives economics. With everything being mass produced we need to understand how these items and ideas affect today's businesses. With that said it is important to have an understanding of popular culture for our careers because it influences who we are as people. When we have a better understanding of the people around us we can work better as a team.
What would you consider to be an example of a popular culture artifact? And why would you choose it?
As I tried to think of something that would be a good example of popular culture, and so I googled "pop culture" and got things like Star Trek, Arrested Development, Twitter, Taylor Swift, and Pitbull, but none of those things really meant anything to me. Okay, yes, I listen to Taylor Swift and sometimes Pitbull, but it really doesn't speak to who I am. So I decided to take a break and let it come to me, but I still drew a blank on what I wanted to talk about. Again I started googling and it hit me, it was staring me right in the face the whole time....GOOGLE! Brilliant, if it was a snake it would have bit me! I love Google, I mean I use all the time. Google has many different features about it that make it user friendly such as images, maps, and news. It is also #10 in the most useful search engines of 2013. In Google's first official year there were an estimated 3.6 million users with an average of 9,800 searches a day. In 2011 there was an estimated 1.7 trillion users and an average of 4.7 billion searches a day. Search engines are a part of everyday use now, and everyone has their own preference as to which one they will use. Me, I choose Google because I find it to be the best one I have come across. Google is a popular culture artifact because it is everywhere, and it seems to just keep adding on with Google Chrome, Google+, Google Voice, and much more.
Carrie I also agree that you can be influence by many different things daily. Just like you said music is emotion and sensation can mean winning the lottery or just getting your appearance fix-up. Popular Culture is a big part of fitting into to certain groups by what you like. By doing so by being in a group means that it can cause you to make positive choices and negative. You have to be careful that you control you and that it is okay to follow the popular culture and spread the upcoming news, technology, and educational information to brighten our future.
ReplyDeleteGoogle certainly ranks up there with the things that have had the most influence on people's lives. I still remember being introduced to Google in middle school, with people saying that it was better than the Yahoo! search engine. I didn't feel that way at the time, but I certainly feel that way now. It is so easy to find information when searching for Google. It has very much made my life easier. Even outside of the search engine, I still make use of many of their other services, such as Gmail and YouTube. I don't think there's another company where I use more than 2-3 of their services/products, besides Google.
ReplyDeleteGoogle has definitely come to be a prominent part of our pop culture. It seems like every time I hear someone inquire about something or wonder about just about anything, I can also hear someone say, "google it". Google is an international icon that is a part of everyday life for so many. I couldn't go so far as to say, we as a society, can't live without it - just ask the Chinese government, but I can say that google has revolutionized searching the internet. Even if you aren't in agreement with how google collects and redistributes your information you are most likely aware of google and at least some of the many features that google offers.
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