One World, One Culture? The Globalisation Debate
This weeks focus was on the globalisation debate within popular culture. According to Held et al (1999: 14-16) ‘Globalisation is the widening, deepening and speeding up of worldwide interconnectedness in all aspects of contemporary life, from the cultural to the criminal, the financial to the spiritual’. Furthermore, according to Baylis & Smith (1997: 7) Globalisation…
Popular Culture Goes Online
This week we looked at the theories behind popular culture and the internet, how popular culture shapes the internet and the cultural messages we produce within society as a result of the internet. The internet is one of the biggest and most controversial changes in the 21st century and is used more and more as…
Tourism and Popular Culture
This weeks main focus was on tourism and popular culture. Tourism and travel enlightens us of cultures different to our own version of normality. Destinations are chosen for the ‘anticipation of pleasure’ and prospect of an experience which contrasts with the normal and everyday. Travel and Tourism has changed dramatically in the modern day but…
Popular Culture 