- Pop Culture is the way in which people as a whole can be defined by their taste. Taste is a persons dislikes or likes. Pop culture to me is what I am entertained by, such as, televisions shows like True Blood or Game of Thrones. Pop culture also is the network that these two shows are aired on; HBO.
- Pop culture is important to business because pop culture also includes the Internet and sites, such as, Facebook, Twitter, etc. These sites are utilized by consumers everyday and a business must be up to date on different ways to reach the consumer in order to sell their products. In my current and future career I utilize these tools to stay up to date on my companies accomplishments.
- The below picture is what I believe to be a pop culture artifact. Although you cannot see the person inside the egg everyone knows that this is Lady Gaga. Even if they did not watch this award show different radio stations and news stations broad casted about this incident to let everyone know about Lady Gaga's shocking behavior. My father, who doesn't even listen to Lady Gaga's music and didnt watch this award show knew that she hatched out of an egg on stage.
I completely agree with your take on popular culture. I believe that a strong factor in what makes something popular culture is what entertains us. It could be something that you look at and think that's awesome or something like Lady Gaga where you are entertained by what you think she will do next.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with your blog on pop culture. I actually used some of the same examples that you did. I used Facebook, because it is such an integral part of the majority of society's day to day lives. I also like your artifact of Lady Gaga, most people have heard of her because of her exotic personality. I personally do not watch many of the awards shows, but I knew of the egg as well as the meat dress that she wore. It is a good example of pop culture because it has everyone talking!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about the need to understanding pop culture for business, specifically marketing. Evidence of that is becoming more present on Facebook. Based on what we "like", advertisement is tailored to our interests. More companies are getting the message that Facebook is a powerful force with a huge market base ready to be tapped into.
ReplyDeleteIt’s amazing how word travels in this day and age. I’m not a fan of Lady Gaga by any means however, I’ve heard of this story several times through several media venues about the incredible not so “edible egg. Since the story was getting so much air time I couldn’t help the desire to Google it in order to get a glimpse of this phenomenon. Once I read the story and saw the egg, I still continue to hear more and more media hype about the awards show. Since I consider myself to be “trendy,” person I felt the need to find out more about her, just because I had to know. So, I downloaded some of her songs just to see if I would like anything she performs. At this point, I discovered I don’t like her style, but because of the popular culture I had to see what I was missing. However, I realize that I just contribute to her sales by paying for downloads, oh well! Pop culture has proven and has established that Lady Gaga is a trend setter and everyone is flocking to her every move. Unfortunately, this Gaga rave I will not be participating in any further!
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