Impact Of Popular Culture Research Articles

From Sci-Fi to Reality: The Impact of AI on Automotive Manufacturing and Design

As Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to advance, it is having a significant impact on the automotive industry, particularly in the areas of manufacturing and design. This paper explores the impact of AI on automotive manufacturing and design, including its influence on autonomous vehicles, supply chain management, predictive maintenance, quality control, and the workforce. It also examines the role of AI in designing sustainable automotive systems, as well as the ethical considerations of its use in the industry. Additionally, the paper considers the impact of popular culture, specifically sci-fi movies and TV shows, on the development and adoption of AI in the automotive industry.

Can popular films instil carcinophobia? Images of cancer in popular Polish cinema.

Although cancer is currently considered a serious socio-medical challenge and health education in Poland has been positioned as a public health priority, the impact of popular culture on people's ideas about cancer has been neglected. This study therefore aims to analyse the way popular Polish films portray cancer and the experience of cancer. Seven popular Polish films featuring cancer were analysed both quantitatively and qualitatively. The main categories included in the coding frame were disease, therapy, patient, physicians/oncologists and psychosocial issuses related to cancer. Polish films fail to provide the audience with basic information about the disease, its diagnoses and treatment and cancer is often represented as a mysterious disease with an unclear cause, an unpredictable and unsuccessful course of treatment, characterised by pain, suffering and inevitable death. Films may therefore instil carcinophobia. Since films accurately reflect problems of daily life faced by cancer patients and their families they have educational potential. Although Polish films reinforce harmful stereotypes about cancer, its treatment, oncological institutions and specialists, cinema has the ability to raise the public's and health professionals' awareness regarding the psycho-social and emotional strains faced by cancer patients and the medical problems related to cancer.

Masculinity in Metropop Novel

Masculinity refers to the ideal nature of male constructed by society. Developments in various sectors make masculinity grows, which one is metrosexual male. Metrosexual are men who are identified as men whoare very concerned with appearances that emerge as the impact of popular culture and hedonism lifestyle on modern urban society. In this study, the masculinity of metrosexual characters in the metropop novels is examined. Masculinity in metropop novels shows masculinity with an urban life setting that puts forward aspect of appearance like an attractive face, fashion that relies on fashion trends and particular brands, and economic financial stability.

The Transnational Impact of Pop Culture on Tourist Destination

Different genres of popular culture, such as music, video, movies, TV series and digital games, influence the transnational flows of world tourism (Griffin, M.,2002). Unlike "high" culture, popular culture is seen as the everyday culture of mass attraction (Gans, H.J.,1999). Popular culture involves a wider community that shares its values and meanings. The impact of popular culture is so great that it can affect people’s thinking, speech, fashion, and perspective (Shirley & Biagi, 1996). Thanks to global media networks, communication systems and digital information technologies, popular culture can reach a wide audience. This, in turn, will lead to a new phenomenon in the tourism industry, which can be called Popular Culture Tourism (Junghun L, 2006.). The paper discusses the impact of popular culture on tourist behavior. Keywords: Pop Culture; Global media, tourist destination, transnational tourism flow.

Kultura popularna w edukacji i socjalizacji – możliwości i zagrożenia

The article is a review. The purpose of this text is to review the ideas about the impact of popular culture on children and adolescents. Due to the great possibilities of popular culture, this influence is ambiguous and predictable. The concepts therefore only show certain tendencies. Children and adolescents are certainly special recipients of popular culture content. The dynamics of their development affects the way content is perceived. On the other hand, however, they can be not only passive recipients, but also active recipients who, by processing the incoming content, may derive additional benefits from it. For this reason, popular culture becomes an educational space with great potential, which, however, must be skillfully disposed of in order to achieve the intended effects of work.

What explains immigrants’ national identity?

This study explores the extent to which socio-economic factors in the U.S., and the exposure to the growing popular culture in Korea, influence Korean immigrants’ American identity. While a great number of cultural and social psychological studies have identified that socio-economic and intergroup factors have the potential to affect an immigrants’ national identity, studies have been negligent in examining the direct impact of popular culture from a sending country, as well as its conditional impact on national identity. In this study, focusing on Korean immigrants, we suggest that the increasing contact with the popular culture of one’s home country, through media, may decrease immigrants’ host identity. In addition, we suggest that it the impact of socio-economic and intergroup factors on their host identity. Although this study does not find strong evidence that Korean Americans who are more exposed to Korean popular culture through social media are less likely to endorse their American identity, empirical results provide some evidence that exposure to Korean popular culture weakens the effects of socio-economic and intergroup factors on the American national identity of Korean immigrants.

“The Blood Never Stops Flowing and the Party Never Ends”: The Originals and the Afterlife of New Orleans as a Vampire City

“The Blood Never Stops Flowing and the Party Never Ends”: The Originals and the Afterlife of New Orleans as a Vampire City

The effect of energy drink and supplement food consumption on children and youths

In recent years children and youths begin to consume energy drinks and defined as a supplement food that vitamins, protein, plant, plant and animal products in our country and around the world. Children and youths perceived these products as harmless because of selling in markets, internet and herbalists, the lack of age limit for buyer, missing information in media as well as the impact of popular culture. Even some parents’ unconscious behavior such as have their children consumed energy drinks because of especially developed for the attention of their children increases the rate of consumption of these products. However random and excess consumption of these products threaten the health seriously. Although there were studies about this subject in international literature, there were no studies about this subject in our country. Unconscious consumptions of energy drinks and food supplements impact on children and youths should be determined with interventional studies by researchers. Keywords: Energy drink, supplement food, protein, child, youth

Playing at Politics? Popular Culture as Political Engagement

While the importance of news media to politics is widely acknowledged, it is only relatively recently that entertainment media have received similar recognition. There is now a substantial body of research on the impact of popular culture on various aspects of the political process, from political knowledge to political engagement. This article is intended as a further contribution to this literature. It reports on a study into how young people in the UK use forms of media entertainment (television, music and video games) to reflect upon the wider world of politics and their role within it. It reveals that, while popular culture does act as a source of political knowledge and does serve to motivate feelings about the conduct of politics, it does not do so straightforwardly, but rather by way of the aesthetic and other judgements made by young people of the ‘authenticity’ and ‘realism’ of the sources of their cultural pleasure. This has policy implications for the attempt to re-engage young people in politics by means of popular culture and ‘celebrity politics’.

Popular culture, public pedagogy and perspective transformation: The Avengers and adult learning in living rooms

The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of popular culture, especially prime‐time television, on women viewers’ identity development. More specifically, this study explores one television show, the 1962–1964 Cathy Gale episodes of The Avengers, as a portal to adult learning. We explored how television, as a form of public pedagogy, can help facilitate the formation of a critical or feminist identity among adult learner viewers. The research questions guiding this study were: (1) How and what did women learn from watching The Avengers? (2) How did women incorporate that learning into their lives and into their identities? (3) How did women interpret and accommodate the feminist example of Cathy Gale? Because our purpose was to investigate Cathy Gale’s impact on women, we chose a qualitative design to uncover the experiences of women who watched her in the 1960s. Unlike most television audience research conducted on female audiences, we were not researching the effects of current television viewing, but asking for life‐stories of women who watched The Avengers over 40 years ago. Data for this study were collected over a two‐and‐a‐half year period and consisted of interviews with contemporaneous viewers of the Cathy Gale Avengers episodes; interviews with scriptwriters and with Honor Blackman, the actor who played Cathy Gale; as well as numerous documents—ranging from statistics obtained at the British Film Institute to fanzines and newspaper articles of the period. Analysis revealed that, in particular historical times and situations, television viewing can become a form of critical public pedagogy, facilitating transformational learning in adult viewers that produces lasting, life‐changing effects. This investigation revealed that not only did biologically born women incorporate Cathy Gale’s feminist example into their identities and actions, but biologically born males whose core gender identity was female did also. This study shows the power of learning experiences found in the space between viewers and their television sets. It offers evidence of transformational, lifelong learning in living rooms.

White Weddings: Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture (review)

Reviewed by: White Weddings: Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture Helen Sheumaker White Weddings: Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture. Second Edition. By Chrys Ingraham. New York: Routledge. 2008. What is needed for a white wedding? Dress, cake, groom, bride. Chrys Ingraham's White Weddings uses the typical 'white wedding' so popular in the United States to investigate normative heterosexuality, globalized economic structures, and the impact of popular culture on ritualized aspects of life. This second edition has benefited from the addition of new material, with Ingraham closely examining the role globalization has played in the manufacture of material items related to the standard white wedding, such as the elaborate dress the bride may wear. Ingraham highlights the ironic disjuncture between the romanticized image of the white dress, with the grueling and exploitative conditions of its creation by women, for women. This is not a book about white weddings as it is about the ways modern weddings represent an enactment of hetereosexual privilege, and how the wedding is the result of an industry of various elements, from periodicals to jewelers to clothing manufacturers. Much of the information Ingraham presents is interesting and sometimes thought-provoking, but there is inconsistent analysis. The author often restates a complicated theoretical argument succinctly, follows with a list of examples, sometimes explicitly related to the stated interpretation. Perhaps such lists of 'facts' persuade otherwise reluctant undergraduates that the theoretical statement may in fact be applicable, but for a reader more interested in an in-depth investigation of the workings of cultural life, the examples prove frustrating. In addition, at times, illustrative examples are either not clearly linked or misplaced in the text. A list of rote phrases used in all film and television weddings studied by the author (such as "I've waited my whole life for this day") illustrates, for Ingraham, "the intense socialization effort that the wedding-ideological complex has undertaken in constructing femininity." (175) What is disconcerting is that the list of incantations ("It's my wedding day!") is not related by the author to her earlier discussion of the ritualistic aspects of media messages about weddings. White Weddings is positioned as an undergraduate textbook; the publisher has a website with powerpoint lecture slides for one chapter, for example. Unfortunately, the text does not provide the apparatus that would make the book eminently usable in the classroom. Key concepts are inconsistently italicized, the index is insufficient and not related to key concepts (for example, there is no entry for "Ritual"). Complex theoretical ideas are clearly and admirably defined. As an introductory text to studying contemporary popular culture, White Weddings offers an attractive topical focus with some weaknesses of approach and presentation. Helen Sheumaker Miami University Copyright © 2010 Mid-America American Studies Association

“You Really Ought to Give Iowa a Try:” Tourism, Community Identity, and the Impact of Popular Culture in Iowa

This paper examines how representations of Iowa in popular culture have led to tourism development in three small communities – Eldon, Mason City and Dyersville. It squarely situates Iowa within the framework of America’s mythic heartland and then analyzes three enduring artifacts of American popular culture – the painting American Gothic, the musical The Music Man, and the film The Field of Dreams. While these popular images of Iowa have significantly helped the economies of these small communities, I contend that Iowa’s wider state identity has ultimately been hindered by these representations because of their strong resonance in the American imagination.

Spectacles of virtue: Classicism, waxworks and the festivals of the French Revolution

This article traces the impact of popular culture and visual technology on eighteenth‐century neoclassicism. It considers the crucial influence of the waxworks on the work of Jacques‐Louis David. David was connected to the waxworks through his friendship with Philippe Curtius, Marie Tussaud’s uncle and the most renowned impresario of wax entertainments in pre‐revolutionary Paris. With its connection to a newly professionalized medicine, the waxen effigy (the most advanced recording technology of the time) provided David with a model of the integrated body and docile subjectivity at a moment when he was turning away from the face as the key locus of expressivity to a ‘corporal aesthetic’ that emphasized the expressive potential of the body in general. Influenced by a sensationalist epistemology that stressed the formative power of images on the human mind, David believed that these idealized neoclassical simulacra would help to create the ‘new man’ of the Revolution. Displayed in large outdoor festivals, these icons would function as transparent lessons in virtue that would wean the people from their uncivilized archaic traditions and induct them into revolutionary values and proper behavior. Yet, paradoxically, by introducing the instability of representation so feared by eighteenth‐century commentators, his innovations had precisely the opposite effect. Far from demonstrating some sort of mechanistic technological determinism, David’s use of media opened the possibility of resistance to the disciplinary agenda of the festivals and facilitated the reinforcement of longstanding popular values.

What Is Third‐Wave Feminism? A New Directions Essay

What Is Third‐Wave Feminism? A New Directions Essay

The Impact of Popular Culture on American Perceptions of the Courts

After a brief introduction defining popular culture as the commodities and experiences produced by the culture industry for mass audiences, this essay explores the impact of court-related popular culture on what Americans think of and expect from their courts. The Perry Mason effect from an earlier era and the CSI effect from the present are noted, as is scholarly work by Michael Asimow, Philip T. Dunwoody, Kimberlianne Podlas, Victoria S. Salzmann, and others. The essay concludes with suggestions for what might be done in the courthouse, the community, and the family room to control the impact of court-related popular culture on American legal consciousness.

The morality of socioscientific issues: Construal and resolution of genetic engineering dilemmas

AbstractThe ability to negotiate and resolve socioscientific issues has been posited as integral components of scientific literacy. Although philosophers and science educators have argued that socioscientific issues inherently involve moral and ethical considerations, the ultimate arbiters of morality are individual decision‐makers. This study explored the extent to which college students construe genetic engineering issues as moral problems. Twenty college students participated in interviews designed to elicit their ideas, reactions, and feelings regarding a series of gene therapy and cloning scenarios. Qualitative analyses revealed that moral considerations were significant influences on decision‐making, indicating a tendency for students to construe genetic engineering issues as moral problems. Students engaged in moral reasoning based on utilitarian analyses of consequences as well as the application of principles. Issue construal was also influenced by affective features such as emotion and intuition. In addition to moral considerations, a series of other factors emerged as important dimensions of socioscientific decision‐making. These factors included personal experiences, family biases, background knowledge, and the impact of popular culture. The implications for classroom science instruction and future research are discussed. © 2003 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Sci Ed 88:4–27, 2004; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/.sce10101

On (Not) “Coloring in the Outline”

This article provides an overview and analysis of 10 studies on violence and injustice from the perspective of youth. These articles are contained in the issue of Journal of Social Issues entitled Youth Perspectives on Violence and Injustice and, in the articles, the authors offer a unique opportunity to go far beyond the current discursive terrains of youth and violence. Through a reinterpretation of what is conceptualized as normative, an expansion of the conceptualization of “youth” and an exploration of a broad range of topics, contexts and methods, the issue explores five provocative and significant critical themes. These themes are: methodology is critical; youth as subject, not object; gift and danger of a clinical approach; centrality of school? and at the intersection of social justice and development. The impact of popular culture on youth and violence and the importance of examining what adults value as “entertainment” are discussed also.

What in the world? Notes on Peter Taylor’s Political geography: world economy, state and locality

Abstract This paper consists of an extended reading of Political geography: world economy, state and locality , with the intention of pointing to material that could be added in future additions of the book. A number of aspects of the text are questioned, including the need to incorporate more analysis of religion, and the misreading of the importance and impact of popular culture throughout the world. The paper ends with a brief case study designed to indicate how connections across geographical scales might be made more vigorously.