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Those who are interested in the implications of popular culture on education and schooling are encouraged to submit. Papers should primarily deal with the topic of popular culture, although those which ... deal with media literacy and the “new literacies” are welcome as well. Papers may take the form of theoretical explorations of the topic, research studies conducted or in process, practical applications for education or any combination of approaches. Please identify your submission with the keyword: CULTURE-2
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The academic study of law in popular culture is of relatively recent vintage, but the interpenetration of the one by the other is as old as Western law itself. As classicist Kathy Eden (1986, pp. 7-8) points out, the average Athenian citizen participated “very directly and very regularly” both as spectator and as judge in the tragic and legal performance. Indeed, the dramatic discourse of ancient Greek tragedy informed the public’s understanding of law just as legal discourse helped to shape and inform the discourse of ancient Greek tragedy. The Greek experience is hardly unique. Two thousand years later, in Elizabethan England, Philip Sidney noted that the practical task of demonstrating legal and factual truths depends upon the fictional method (Duncan-Jones, 1989).
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Without doubt, historians of the early modern period have paid more attention to popular culture than have any other historians. There are sound practical and methodological reasons for this. In comparison to the overwhelming documentary evidence available to historians of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, early modernists face source limitations that require them to approach their subject in a more circumspect manner. Because of this, they have proven particularly open to the interdisciplinary methods of cultural anthropology used to study comparable forms of culture in "traditional" societies. Nevertheless, the advent of printing and nascent bureaucracy coupled with a higher rate of documentary and artistic survivals offers early modernists a more satisfactory pool of evidence than is regularly available for the study of popular culture in earlier periods. Another major impetus has been the modernity thesis.
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The study, "New Generation Latino Media Habits," measures the attitudes and behavior of young Hispanics regarding media, language, and popular culture. The study consisted of a national poll of 766 respondents between 14 to 34 years of age, administered via a twenty-five question online survey. Approximately four-fifths of respondents were born in the U.S., and all elected to complete the questionnaire in English, despite given a Spanish option. Findings include:
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In liberal-pluralist accounts of popular culture, the theorizing on its supposedly liberating, democratizing function is nowadays most often pushed to the background. This type of criticism, often produced by people who are ... active in popular literary writing themselves, often amounts to paraphrase and suffers from an uncritical identification with the study object. One of the main aims of this type of criticism is the establishment of ahistorical canons of and within popular genres in the image of legitimized culture. This approach, however, has been accused of elitism as well.
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One of a series of textbooks prepared for popular culture courses taught through the U.K.’s Open University. Readings include studies of diverse representational practices—the displaying of “other” cultures in museums, the construction of racial stereotypes in print and visual media, and photographic representation of masculinity--as well as accessible explanations of different theories of representation. Contains a useful appendix of key articles and bibliography.
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