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One of our readings for class was The History of the Internet in a nutshell. We haven't discussed much about this reading in class yet, but I suppose that we will get to it very soon. This reading is quite interesting and gives bullet point facts on a timeline about the Internet.
The Internet has progressed so much within such a small amount of time. And with the Internet growing at such a fast pace, so has the media. Pop culture (Popular Culture) has so much variety nowadays because of how fast the media is able to collect so much information. Pop Culture is basically everything that the media and popular celebrities consider to be new trends of that time of year. What I mean by that is, last century's pop culture is different from this century and so on.
For example in the 70's Bob Marley was considered as part of Pop Culture. However nowadays not many people know him unless they grew up in the 70's. Of course though, people don't really follow what the media says...but if the media had certain popular celebrity faces on their ads or music videos, then it is easier for people to follow. And when people follow up on which celebrity does what to their hair, for example, that is what is considered as pop culture. And with the power of the Internet, pop culture is even more accessible.
Rapid developments in technology have indeed seemed to lead to equally rapid changes in current trends in pop culture. Though you make a good point there is a certain "now" aspect that is pop culture at any moment in history, I think there is also space for certain thingsnto remain popular or to come back in stlyle.
ReplyDeleteThinking of your example about Bob Marley, I have met many people who are huge fans who weren't born until many years after he died. For them, wouldn't Marley be pop culture?
I'm not sure myself, i need to think about this some more. I appreciate the questions you've raised.
Man, I love Bob Marley! But come to think of it, as much as I love his music and watched a few back int the day MTV documentaries on him, I never pondered much on his era...I'm kinda ashamed.
ReplyDeleteStill Bob Marley was the Tupac Shakur of his time, so there's so many ludicrous and utterly preposterous conspiracy theories about his death--and these, through out time have been part of pop culture also. Kennedy, Diana, and even Elvis. People just love gossiping and get SO caught up on conspiracy theories crap with out truly researching...so gullible.