Popular culture helps construct, define, and impact our everyday realities and must be taken seriously because popular culture is, simply, popular. Communication Perspectives on Popular Culture brings together communication experts with diverse backgrounds, from interpersonal communication, business and organizational communication, mass communication, media studies, narrative, rhetoric, gender studies, autoethnography, popular culture studies, and journalism. The contributors tackle such topics as music, broadcast and Netflix television shows, movies, the Internet, video games, and more, as they connect popular culture to personal concerns as well as larger political and societal issues. The variety of approaches in these chapters are simultaneously situated in the present while building a foundation for the future, as contributors explore new and emerging ways to approach popular culture. From case studies to emerging theories, the contributors examine how popular culture, media, and communication influence our everyday lives.
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Not Another Pop Culture Series! Studying the World(s) We Occupy by Andrew F. Herrmann and Art Herbig Chapter 1: Queering Popular Culture by Tony E. Adams Chapter 2: CultPopCulture: Reconsidering the Popular Culture Framework via the Engage, Adapt, and Transform (EAT) Model by Bob Batchelor Chapter 3: "Saving People. Hunting Things. The Family Business": Organizational Communication Approaches to Popular Culture by Andrew F. Herrmann Chapter 4: Who's the Boss? Leadership in the Popular Imagination by Eric M. Eisenberg Chapter 5: In Space ... Our Worst Will Make Us Scream: Reality Reflected in the Cultural Artifact Alien by Adam W. Tyma Chapter 6: Music's Pervasive and Persuasive Role in Popular Culture by Deanna Sellnow Chapter 7: Politics and Popular Culture by Trevor Parry-Giles, Will P. Howell, and Devin Scott Chapter 8: Public Relations Representations in Popular Culture: A 'Scandal' on Primetime Television by Cheryl Ann Lambert, Jessalynn Strauss, and Natalie T. J. TindallChapter 9: Critical Rhetoric and Popular Culture: Examining Rhetoric's Relationship to the Popular by Art Herbig Chapter 10: "Prison is bullshit": An Intersectional Analysis of Popular Culture Representations of the Prison Industrial Complex in Orange is the New Black by Michelle Kelsey Kearl Chapter 11: Polymediating the Post: Reclaiming Feminism in Popular Culture by Danielle M. Stern and Krista Catalfamo Chapter 12: Thinking Conjuncturally about Countercultures by Lawrence Grossberg Chapter 13: Rethinking Studies of Relationships and Popular Culture: Notes on Approach, Method, and (Meta)Theory by Jimmie Manning Chapter 14: Public Opponents Cooperating: Possibilities for Dialogue in Popular Culture Controversies by Rob Anderson and Kenneth N. Cissna Chapter 15: "You Don't Know Me": Portrayals of Black Fatherhood and Husbandhood in T.I. and Tiny: The Family Hustle by Siobhan E. Smith, Ryessia Jones, and Johnny Jones Chapter 16: Video Gaming: Aggressively Social by Robert Andrew Dunn Chapter 17: Popular Culture, Pedagogy, and Dialoguing Difference Starting Difficult Conversations in the Communication Classroom by Kristen L. McCauliff and Katherine J. Denker Bibliography Index About the Contributors
