Full Description
Popular culture helps construct, define, and impact our everyday realities and must be taken seriously because popular culture is, simply, popular. Communication Perspectives on Popular Culture brings together communication experts with diverse backgrounds, from interpersonal communication, business and organizational communication, mass communication, media studies, narrative, rhetoric, gender studies, autoethnography, popular culture studies, and journalism. The contributors tackle such topics as music, broadcast and Netflix television shows, movies, the Internet, video games, and more, as they connect popular culture to personal concerns as well as larger political and societal issues. The variety of approaches in these chapters are simultaneously situated in the present while building a foundation for the future, as contributors explore new and emerging ways to approach popular culture. From case studies to emerging theories, the contributors examine how popular culture, media, and communication influence our everyday lives.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Not Another Pop Culture Series! Studying the World(s) We Occupy
by Andrew F. Herrmann and Art Herbig
Chapter 1: Queering Popular Culture
by Tony E. Adams
Chapter 2: CultPopCulture: Reconsidering the Popular Culture Framework via the Engage, Adapt, and Transform (EAT) Model
by Bob Batchelor
Chapter 3: "Saving People. Hunting Things. The Family Business": Organizational Communication Approaches to Popular Culture
by Andrew F. Herrmann
Chapter 4: Who's the Boss? Leadership in the Popular Imagination
by Eric M. Eisenberg
Chapter 5: In Space ... Our Worst Will Make Us Scream: Reality Reflected in the Cultural Artifact Alien
by Adam W. Tyma
Chapter 6: Music's Pervasive and Persuasive Role in Popular Culture
by Deanna Sellnow
Chapter 7: Politics and Popular Culture
by Trevor Parry-Giles, Will P. Howell, and Devin Scott
Chapter 8: Public Relations Representations in Popular Culture: A 'Scandal' on Primetime Television
by Cheryl Ann Lambert, Jessalynn Strauss,
