CMNS 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Janice Radway, Walter Benjamin
28 Jan 2019
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Popular culture refers to the communicative practices of everyday life- talking, writing, social rituals like eating, shopping, dancing, music, visual culture, sports, fashion, etc. That are shared by many people in society, including those who lack social, political or cultural power. > why take pop culture seriously: popular culture is where history happens. Including the artifacts, words and practices of everyday life is where history happens, especially once we learn how to read the codes and language of everyday life: popular culture reinforces signi cant social structure, popular culture producing culture. It is the way a culture thinks out loud, including notions of what that culture might be. A way to imagine a brighter future (walter benjamin and janice radway). For women to get away form normal life, beyond housewife. Where women is strong, equal, loving: popular culture can be a space of critique and social change. Confront the ethical rei cations of unfettered technology advancement.
