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I need this essay in Harvard style, and I need it to be very analytical as well using sources attached and more if needed. Below is a module summary to better understand the subject:

This module will examine popular culture and its manifestations in the digital domain. The module content will critically analyse and decode the evolution of popular culture across the digital age, observing phenomena like news making, video making, art, celebrity and micro-celebrity, fashion, work and music. Students will learn to identify, understand and critically assess how popular culture has been evolving in conjunction with digital technologies and their increasingly ubiquitous role in the everyday life of a large number of people.

By drawing on literature across critical theory, cultural studies, cultural sociology and media studies, the module will investigate the nature of cultural value, the modes of expression and sociality of the digital age, with the aim of understanding the social and cultural imaginaries that develop in a digital culture. The module will expose students to a variety of phenomena, with the aim of stimulating independent appraisal and critical examination of the various manifestations of popular culture in the digital domain.

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The study of popular culture is controversial, historically: the tastes and activities of ordinary people have been seen as too trivial to warrant analysis. A distinction between ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture has been drawn: love affairs that rage through Romeo and Juliet are more worthy of study than those of Love Island, for example. But popular culture is the very stuff of human existence. It suffuses daily life and plays a huge part in forging the identity of the individual, from the unconsidered minutiae of smoking, looking in a mirror, or sipping a coffee to mass cultural activities like watching sports that bind people together and shape communal behaviour in ways as powerful as war. You might say, then: if it isn’t popular, it’s not culture.

This week introduces you to some of the major theories of popular culture. In the weeks that follow, you will go on to explore how digital technologies have impacted on culture to form the multiple iterations of specifically digitalpopular culture which has such a huge impact on the nature of living in the twenty-first century.

  • Storey, John (2012) Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: An Introduction. 6th Edition. Pearson. Chapter 1: What is popular culture?
    [NB: Full-text available online through the KCL Library Website]
  • Hall, Stuart (1998) ‘Notes on Deconstructing ‘the popular’ ’, Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader, edited by John Storey (Pearson: Prentice Hall, 1998) 
 
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