Popular Culture. A Reply to Shusterman and Małecki

Christianity and Popular Culture

Response to Shusterman and to Mapp

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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...

Is Commercial Culture Popular Culture?: A Question for Popular Communication Scholars

This essay compares commercial culture with popular culture, reviewing different conceptualizations of the terms. It posits that there are significant differences, but that commercial culture increasingly intrudes on other forms of culture. The essay argues that popular communication scholars are well positioned to develop new perspectives and techniques to understand hybrid versions of popular...

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...