Popular Culture:

An Overview
 Introduction
 Popular culture also called as “Pop culture” is the
culture of common people.
 Massively influenced by social media includes the
everyday lives of the people in a community.
 The wholeness of lives of the people in the society.
 In modern society, Pop culture is controlled by
different industries that supply cultural materials.

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 What is Popular Culture?
 Culture refers to the values, ideas, arts,
entertainments, beliefs, customs and social behavior
shared by large segments of society.

 Pop culture is a unit of cultural ideas, symbols or

practices, which can transmitted from one mind to
another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals or
other imitable phenomena.

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 Pop Culture contains the following:
> Music > Film
> Advertising
> Television > Fashion
> Sports > Magazine
> Toys > Cyber culture
> Comics

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Issues in Popular Culture
> Race
> Ethnicity
> Gender
> Sexuality
> Cultural Imperialism
> Censorship

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Categories of Popular Culture:
> Entertainment (Movies, Music, T.V.)
> Sports
> News ( as in people/places in news)
> Politics
> Fashion/Clothes
> Technology

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 Generalization:
> Everyone of us has our own popular culture
selection.
> From the apps you use everyday, to your songs
you played and even your favorite TV shows as
well as your number one social net are one of the
best example in determining popular culture.
> Today, mobile phones are considered as the center
of our pop culture.
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