Popular culture is ideas or things that the majority of the people are familiar with and/or what to have or know. The critical word in the definition is “majority”. The way I determine whether something is considered to be popular culture or not is if: 1) my teenage children know about it, 2) it is on the cover of every magazine, 3) my children want it and 4) I am not willing to spend my time or money on it.
The participation in popular culture to me is mainstream and is not for independent thinkers. My real interest in popular culture is the people who develop the ideas and things. The inventor of the item that changed the way we do things. The thinker who came up with ideas that changed the way we see things, and the personality that made us want to get to know them.
Understanding popular culture is relevant to being successful in the business environment. Popular culture is all about what the majority of the people want. Business is about supply and demand; in order to be successful you have to have something that people want. My company is a developer of commercial and residential real estate. We have to understand what people want now and what they are going to want in the future. We cannot be successful if we do not build the type of buildings people want in the right locations.
The artifact that I have chosen to be an example of popular culture is the cable station Cartoon Network. I chose Cartoon Network as an example of popular culture because I feel it has had a tremendous affect on how our children perceive the function of the television in their life.
Cartoon Network is a television station that airs child enticing programming 24 hours a day seven days a week. The fact that the station calls the child to watch at any time of the day makes the child and adult believe that it is normal to participate in this type of entertainment at any hour if not every hour of the day. Adolescents that once were limited to watching children’s programming a few hours a week are now tuning in all hours of the day. The once active and imaginative child is now stationary and participating in mindless activities.
The participation in popular culture to me is mainstream and is not for independent thinkers. My real interest in popular culture is the people who develop the ideas and things. The inventor of the item that changed the way we do things. The thinker who came up with ideas that changed the way we see things, and the personality that made us want to get to know them.
Understanding popular culture is relevant to being successful in the business environment. Popular culture is all about what the majority of the people want. Business is about supply and demand; in order to be successful you have to have something that people want. My company is a developer of commercial and residential real estate. We have to understand what people want now and what they are going to want in the future. We cannot be successful if we do not build the type of buildings people want in the right locations.
The artifact that I have chosen to be an example of popular culture is the cable station Cartoon Network. I chose Cartoon Network as an example of popular culture because I feel it has had a tremendous affect on how our children perceive the function of the television in their life.
Cartoon Network is a television station that airs child enticing programming 24 hours a day seven days a week. The fact that the station calls the child to watch at any time of the day makes the child and adult believe that it is normal to participate in this type of entertainment at any hour if not every hour of the day. Adolescents that once were limited to watching children’s programming a few hours a week are now tuning in all hours of the day. The once active and imaginative child is now stationary and participating in mindless activities.
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