The term ‘popular culture’ holds different meanings depending on who’s defining it and the context of use. It is generally recognized as the vernacular or people’s culture that predominates in a society at a point in time. As Brummett explains in Rhetorical Dimensions of Popular Culture, pop culture involves the aspects of social life most actively involved in by the public. As the ‘culture of the people’, popular culture is determined by the interactions between people in their everyday activities: styles of dress, the use of slang, greeting rituals and the foods that people eat are all examples of popular culture.Brummett defines pop culture as an amalgamation of various cultural aspects of society.Pop culture is understood as the predominant vernacular of society at a given point of time.Pop culture represents the everyday activities of people such as dress, slang, rituals and foods.Pop culture has several contextual meanings that change from person to person.

The following question has a paragraph which is followed by four alternative summaries. Choose the alternative that best captures the essence of the paragraph.The term ‘popular culture’ holds different meanings depending on who’s defining it and the context of use. It is generally recognized as the vernacular or people’s culture that predominates in a society at a point in time. As Brummett explains in Rhetorical Dimensions of Popular Culture, pop culture involves the aspects of social life most actively involved in by the public. As the ‘culture of the people’, popular culture is determined by the interactions between people in their everyday activities: styles of dress, the use of slang, greeting rituals and the foods that people eat are all examples of popular culture.Brummett defines pop culture as an amalgamation of various cultural aspects of society.Pop culture is understood as the predominant vernacular of society at a given point of time.Pop culture represents the everyday activities of people such as dress, slang, rituals and foods.Pop culture has several contextual meanings that change from person to person.

Popular culture is further broken down into six subdefinitions. The first is culture that is popular or valued by others by measurable means, such as sales of songs, playing on the radio, attending screenings or concerts, and ratings of viewers on TV shows. Question 8Select one:TrueFalse

Instructions Analyze: Artifact of Popular Culture Evaluation Title: The Business of Pop Culture We have seen throughout this course how popular culture influences our attitudes, both positively and negatively. In this final paper, you will examine an artifact in pop culture to determine its message and effect. For this assignment, select an artifact that, in your opinion, unfairly creates a negative bias or promotes a negative stereotype about one population of society. The pop culture artifact can be a media source (song, movie, television program), a product or other tangible associated with pop culture. Provide a link to this artifact (or an image). Explain why you have selected this artifact, and why you feel that this creates a negative bias. Describe how you would re-design or re-write the script of this artifact to change the way others would view this population. In your paper: Provide a specific link to pop culture artifact used for this paper or an image of the artifact. Discuss the artifact in depth. Explain the stereotypes or biases that you see being perpetuated in the artifact. Discuss the role of popular culture in communicating harmful or incorrect stereotypes or biases. Using the concepts, terminology, and ideas within Units 1-7, recommendations for how people can identify and correct views that are incorrect or harmful. Re-design or re-write this artifact to change the way others could view this population without the negative bias. Be sure to support this revised artifact with factual examples of the culture. Specifications: Submit a 1200-1500 word essay addressing the questions above. In your essay: Be sure to structure your essay with an introduction paragraph that includes a thesis statement, well-organized supporting paragraphs, and a conclusion that reiterates the main points of your argument. Your argument should be supported by reputable research cited in APA format both in the body of the paper and in your references section.

Identify several examples of popular culture and describe how they inform larger culture. How prevalent is the effect of these examples in your everyday life?

Question 3 of 10Which is an example of popular culture?A.TelevisionB.MoviesC.RadioD.All of the above