Globalization and Popular Culture

Globalization and Popular Movements

This paper argues for analyses of the changing conditions of collective action on the international stage using the method of incorporating comparisons. Third World revolutions, national liberation movements, and related peasant-urban revolts of the 1950s and 1960s took place in a context shaped decisively by emerging states, developmental projects, and international sponsorship and control. Si...

Christianity and Popular Culture

Myths of Popular Culture

The aim of this article is to explore some critical moments in the formation of ‘popular’ culture studies. This objective is not exhaustive, cannot be exhaustive in the space of a single article, since popular cultural studies have grown into an academic industry which not even five live-times of academic work by any individual can exhaust! This article is therefore, a rapid but hopefully, prov...

Impact of Globalization on Culture

An importance feature of globalization is the interchange of ideas as symbolized by the internet. The concern involves the clash of cultures and the spread of materialistic values. The internet allows any person to access and wonder into the Hollywood library and no one is there to stop, control or direct you. This has enormous influence on hoe people think, act or behave. The values that this ...

Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture

This research examined media depiction of homicide in a large metropolitan area from the market-driven journalism perspective (McManus, 1994). From this perspective, news organization decisions are based on journalist and news editor perceptions of what type of stories resonate with the general public. Accordingly, the news production process becomes characterized as an exercise in market strat...