Women's Studies 2161A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Celebrity Culture, High Culture, Jenji Kohan

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2161A/B
• Professor: Nichole Edwards

Document Summary

Find articles that counter that the initial one says, show differential opinion. Definitions which, in their different ways, inform the study of popular culture. 2) inferior kinds of work- low brow". 3) work that deliberately sets out to win favour of people. 4) culture is actually made by the people for themselves. 5) post modern influence: well liked by many. 8. 2 million people watched finale got season 5. Taylor swift: 10 million stream first day, vivo 27 million views 24 hours, broke record for most watched video in 24 hours. These numbers suggesting things are literally popular: quantifying things with numbers. Just because people all watched it doesn"t mean they all liked or enjoyed it. We can never get full picture from numbers. Quantifying with numbers and percentages does not necessarily provide a full picture: inferior kinds of work- low culture.