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Popular Culture - Science topic
Popular culture (pop culture) is the totality of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, memes, images and other phenomena that are deemed preferred per an informal consensus within the mainstream of a given culture, especially Western culture of the early to mid 20th century and the emerging global mainstream of the late 20th and early 21st century. Heavily influenced by mass media, this collection of ideas permeates the everyday lives of the society.
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I would appreciate if anyone could suggest a bestiary that presents classic monsters, such as vampires, witches (as evil - or not - mythical creatures), arachnids monsters etc., and/or mythical creatures from different cultures, times and religions, as well as from Literature and pop culture. It must have scientific backing or, at least, be consolidated.
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Are you superstitious?
If the scientist can be superstitious or can he have respect for superstitions?
Can a scientist completely ignore superstitions if he does not research them scientifically?
Are superstitions an atavistic element of culture?
Are they atavistic remnants of the ancient times when people have explained the occurrence of puzzling, unrecognized scientific atmospheric, climatic, cosmic phenomena, etc., explaining this by the action of higher, supernatural forces, etc.?
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Dear Colleagues,
I am looking for papers, books and other stuff that can help me understand pop culture on a global scale.
Many thanks in advance for your suggestions
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Vincenzo
From Robin Hood to the Kray twins there has been a tendency in Western European cultures to mythologise outlaws, many of whom were cold blooded murderers. The American gangsters of the 1920's to the present day have been glamorised is countless movies, comics and novels. The villains are often portrayed as far more interesting than their law enforcement opponent, who often in these myths become villains themselves.
The murderous activities of Jesse James and Billy the Kid, John Dillinger and Bonny & Clyde left dozens of innocent people dead and many families of ordinary folk grieving. The New York & Chicago mobs destroyed the lives of thousands and made life a misery for the legitimate businesses of those cities.
The reality is that virtually all gangsters going back from modern times to the medieval outlaw were motivated by greed and prepared to kill sometimes for pleasure to support their life styles.
What is it about Western culture that perpetuates the heroic myths?
This is my first project on Research Gate! Any helpful tips this community of researchers can offer me would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
The world-famous Hofstede 6 dimensional model consisting of dimensions such as individualism-collectivism, uncertainty avoidance, power distance, masculinity-femininity, and long term orientations. Hofstede developed his original model to examine a worldwide survey of employees of IBM between 1967 and 1973. What are the limitations of cultural dimensional model? How it can be eliminated?
Dear esteemed colleagues,
I would love to hear your thoughts or opinions on the following statements posted. Thank you very much in advance
Example statement
1). Launching a research study to study why doing something as now become a cultural phenomenon.
OR
2). Launching a research study to study if doing something as now become a cultural phenomenon.
I am of the train of thought that with statement 1, there is an existence of a cultural phenomenon due to previous extant literature and this research study wants to study why this is the case as opposed to statement 2 which the study wants to study if there is one (Yes or No)
Music is ubiquitous, as Anahid Kassabian (2013) has noted in her book "Ubiquitous Listening". People listens to music and different kinds of sounds as their sonic companion for many different activities, like reading, training, while doing sports, working on creative projects, sleeping, relaxing, walking etc. But how is this individual/personal and instrumental/practical use of music changing the way people perceive and listens to music today?
How do you use music and sounds as a companion for other activities? What kind of music/sound and what kind of activites?
1- Unglamorous can be stronger/ better than glamorous.
Example of a demonstration for this concept:
Mosquitoes are more deadly than lions
2- A similar over-lapping concept is Low-hanging fruits: Easier action can lead to higher rewards than more difficult action. For example, playing basketball is enjoyable for me. It doesn’t take much motivation to get me going. Showering in icy cold water is painful. Yet, it could be the case that the impact of playing basketball is actually healthier than icy cold showering (just giving this as an example. I could then show a video of someone swimming in icy cold water).
My Request: Suggest Demonstrations for this Concept
I'm looking for resources (videos, pictures, games, activities, articles etc..) that would explain or illustrate (this) concept in an engaging and/or simple way especially to a lay audience. It could be a straightforward explanation like this A video explaining the concept "Co-relation does not equal causation"
where the original intent of the video is to explain this concept. Or ,You can be creative; this illustration does not need to be originally made to explain this concept. The analogy can be made independently of the original intention of the resource. For example, if the concept is flexibility in your career, I can find a video of a person demonstrating physical flexibility even though the original intent of the video is not about career flexibility. (For more on what I mean by concept-demonstrating resources, see https://www.researchgate.net/post/List_of_Concept-Demonstrating_Resources
Please put your suggestion in the comments section below.
Diminishing Returns Concept: At a certain point , increasing the amount of input (e.g. effort) will still lead to an increase in output but at a rate less than before.
I'm looking for resources (videos, pictures, games, activities, articles etc..) that would explain or illustrate this concept in an engaging and/or simple way especially to a lay audience. It could be a straightforward explanation like this A video explaining the concept "Co-relation does not equal causation"
where the original intent of the video is to explain this concept. Or ,You can be creative; this illustration does not need to be originally made to explain this concept. The analogy can be made independently of the original intention of the resource. For example, if the concept is flexibility in your career, I can find a video of a person demonstrating physical flexibility even though the original intent of the video is not about career flexibility. (For more on what I mean by concept-demonstrating resources, see https://www.researchgate.net/post/List_of_Concept-Demonstrating_Resources
Please put your suggestion in the comments section below.
Hi everyone,
I'm a researcher who prepares content for workshops. Here are some lists I compiled to help me find concept-demonstrating resources
"8ACTIVITIES" to "b BRAINSTORMING WITH OTHERS"
Request: It would be helpful for me to add to this collection. Please suggest in the comments section any other resources I could add.
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Types of demonstrations
I'm looking for resources (videos, pictures, games, activities, articles etc..) that would explain or illustrate a concept in an engaging and/or simple way especially to a lay audience. It could be a straightforward explanation like this A video explaining the concept "Co-relation does not equal causation"
where the original intent of the video is to explain this concept. Or ,You can be creative; this illustration does not need to be originally made to explain this concept. The analogy can be made independently of the original intention of the resource. For example, if the concept is flexibility in your career, I can find a video of a person demonstrating physical flexibility even though the original intent of the video is not about career flexibility.
Please put your suggestion in the comments section below.
I attached a document showing two tables of examples on resources and demonstrations.
Hello, Colleagues,
I have seen many RG questions about getting a publisher for a text that you have written or that you propose to write.
My experience may not be typical and I have but one edited text to my credit but I am eager to help others. My edited interdisciplinary collection of essay is titled _Orbiting Ray Bradbury's Mars_ (2012) for McFarland Publishers. They are the major popular culture publishing firm in the US.
I am inviting people in at the start of an invited proposal to a multinational educational publisher. I was invited to propose a companion text on LITERATURE AND CLASS because of a review I did of another text. This convinced the publisher that I could create a research text for them.
STEP ONE: do reviews of other people's texts. If you do a review, say you are available to do more.
I invite you to watch this journey from start to conclusion of a project to publish a reference text with a major publisher. This should be a good discussion that takes us beyond the "what if I had a publisher" stage with no specifics involved.
Is aesthetic perception bound with normative judgments from the first moment of the encounter with an artistic creation, or maybe this rather depends on the cultural layers surrounding the work of art?
This question is motivated by the recent debates that sparked around the release of Star Wars: the Last Jedi. The work is challenging the philosophical assumptions of many fans and is eliciting hate on one side, and praises on the other. What I noticed is that for the first time in a long time this allowed me to have philosophical discussions with my non-academic friends. But I'm interested to know if it's a risk in a capitalist society to create such work, or is it actually the engine of the market?
I'd be very glad if you provide some interesting references in your answers, may they be academic or pop-culture related examples from the past. Even if what motivated my question was Star Wars, feel free to provide an answer on the basis of whatever pop culture related work you want.
I started videoblog about culture and science recently on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqrctt4zh3A&t=10s). Would you like to share with me your experience on vlogs and how to improve transmission of knowledge through YT?
I would like to establish a literature review on football as a matter of popular culture. When we talk about popular culture we see fashion, literature, music, cinema, sport, just to mention a few. I will be very happy to collect a maximum of books talking about football in popular culture. Thanks.
Hi. I am undertaking to do a survey of Nigerian adolescent children aged from 10 - 17 years and to find out the way that they engage with and experience digital media technologies. I have decided to use cluster sampling or multistage sampling to arrive at my respondents: geographical zone - states - senatorial zones - local governments - towns - schools - classes. However my confusion and question is: how do I arrive at a sample size for the survey? Is the figure meant to be random? It should be justified, but how do I make this? What formula do I use and even so, how do I get total number of population?
I am looking for journal articles that would help assist me in answering that particular research question.
I am looking for first-person and ethnographic reports on the work of actors as they encounter texts, work together, and present to audiences. References to analogous work in music would be welcome as well.
I would like to know if any study has shown the psychological effect, positive or negative, of the viewership of socially deviant behavior and desire to indulge in similar activities.
I'm looking for examples where social representations embodied in visual cultural products were studied. I found very few examples. Does anyone know some work that help me to study social representations in images? Is someone doing a research of this kind?
I offer a course on (mainly mainstream) cinematic portrayals of international relations and interactions--using films such as V for Vendetta, Battle of Algiers, Avatar, Dr. Strangelove, Night of the Living Dead, Last Emperor, Fight Club, The Mission, and many others. We discuss culture, politics, colonization, the state, IGOs and international law, war, and utopian/dystopian futures. I would also be interested to read any recommended syllabi, film reviews, critical essays, or other analyses of film and cinema. Many thanks!
I am co-authoring a book on the zombie phenomenon. My contribution explains the fascination with zombies as a metaphor for globalization and the return to the "state of nature."
