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Defining popular culture: origins, characteristics and the mass media
Nature and Origins of Popular Culture
What this note covers
- What is popular culture? Definitions and distinctions
- Historical origins: industrialisation, urbanisation and the emergence of a mass audience
- The mass media as the engine of popular culture: print, broadcast and beyond
- Characteristics of popular culture: what makes something 'popular'?
- Digital platforms and the transformation of production
- Digital platforms and the transformation of consumption: Australia in the global stream
- Cultural power, resistance and the politics of popular culture
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