Consider the current youth popular culture compared to those of the past. What movements do you have in your youth culture? How are you a part of your youth culture?
I am 2o (almost 21) and that puts me in the tail end of today's "youth" culture. My generation is preparing to take the reins and run the country. My generation has become the "here and now" culture and we have almost zero patience; our short patience coincides harmonously with our rude behavior to those around us. While I love my cell phone I know for a fact that it has completely altered my generation. Many students sit in class and text the whole time while others do not even bother to put their phones on silent. With the advent of internet on our phones, kids can instantly check their myspace and post to twitter (I have absolutely no clue what it is but Miley Cyrus has one). My culture is obsessed with instant communication wherever we are. For example, I went to Hawaii a couple months ago and I kept my phone with me at all times; I was talking and texting instead of enjoying the scenery and vacation.
There has been one advantage to the mass media we are all bombarded with these days- communication to rise for a cause. There is no refuting that my generation has been charged with changing our nation's way and being sustainable (Green for lamens). We have become obsessed correcting the planet's depleted fossil fuel dependance and reversing global warming. My major is architecture and my sophmore year in the program the class curriculum made a dramatic and swift change to green over aesthetic design. While music, television and other mass media still control and manipulate each generation, my generation's culture has become much more dependent on each other as we look to fix the world. I cant help but think we are as naive as any other generation's culture- we just have cell phones and myspace.
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How do you perceive your popular culture? What does popular culture consist of in your world? Music? TV? The Web? Fashion? What attracted you to this particular section of popular culture? Why do you like it? How do you understand its history? Please end your blog with at least one good critical question.
Popular culture is an all encompassing phenomanom. Music, TV, Internet, Clothes, technology, etc. are all a part of the popular culture. I can not imagine a culture as being only one area because culture is how we live our lives. Being a consumer culture, everything we buy or persuaded to buy or use is part of our culture. For example, every time we watch TV or log onto myspace we are being told to buy or use a certain product or what is cool. I do not typically fall prey to any of those adds telling me what is the next best thing to buy but I admit I buy plenty of stuff. I do not always buy the newest and best thing that the advertisers tell us to buy.
For my popular culture, TV, music, clothes, gadgets, mypsace and parties. Movies and sit coms keep me entertained on a day to day basis. I always look forward to big summer movies and we have a DVR at my house to record all our shows. The DVR lets us skip through commercials so we rarely ever watch any adds. Keeping on entertainment, Myspace and the web are almost an hourly visit for me. I spend most of my day on a computer working and doing HW so the net is a very large part of my connection with the world. Im always looking for new clothes but it is not always what is the most popular styles. For example, I am not one to wear the girl pants and sag. As for gadgets, I love my cell phone, Ipod and GPS; without those objects I am not sure how I would get through the week. I know I could survive without them but I do not know if I would ever want to. Basically, my culture revolves around communication and those around me.
Is todays generation being hurt by the instant communication that we have become so accustomed to? Most students sit in class and text the whole time and we can not understand what is so wrong with our phones going off in public.
Popular culture is an all encompassing phenomanom. Music, TV, Internet, Clothes, technology, etc. are all a part of the popular culture. I can not imagine a culture as being only one area because culture is how we live our lives. Being a consumer culture, everything we buy or persuaded to buy or use is part of our culture. For example, every time we watch TV or log onto myspace we are being told to buy or use a certain product or what is cool. I do not typically fall prey to any of those adds telling me what is the next best thing to buy but I admit I buy plenty of stuff. I do not always buy the newest and best thing that the advertisers tell us to buy.
For my popular culture, TV, music, clothes, gadgets, mypsace and parties. Movies and sit coms keep me entertained on a day to day basis. I always look forward to big summer movies and we have a DVR at my house to record all our shows. The DVR lets us skip through commercials so we rarely ever watch any adds. Keeping on entertainment, Myspace and the web are almost an hourly visit for me. I spend most of my day on a computer working and doing HW so the net is a very large part of my connection with the world. Im always looking for new clothes but it is not always what is the most popular styles. For example, I am not one to wear the girl pants and sag. As for gadgets, I love my cell phone, Ipod and GPS; without those objects I am not sure how I would get through the week. I know I could survive without them but I do not know if I would ever want to. Basically, my culture revolves around communication and those around me.
Is todays generation being hurt by the instant communication that we have become so accustomed to? Most students sit in class and text the whole time and we can not understand what is so wrong with our phones going off in public.
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