HELLO EVERYONE!!
My name is Abdullah Aljabali and I am from Kuwait. I am a Sophomore majoring in Accounting. I chose the pop culture course because it sounds interesting to and fun to me. Writing a blog isn’t a thing I thought I would do, but maybe I will like it at the end who knows.
To start this with complete honesty, I am not a big fan of literature and reading books, but I read news articles. I tried reading some novels but it always ends with me watching the adaptation series or movies of it, just like the TV show Game of thrones and the novels that was adapted from it. There are couple of aspects that affect my decisions in terms of what I use or buy. Most of the time I care about people reviews. I know people have different views or ideas or taste in fashion, food, books, and games, but still some reviews open my mind for areas that I might be forgetting about it. Also, advertising is important and will affect a lot, but not me. Most of the times if I saw a product that is over advertised I will hate it because I find it annoying.
Popular culture can be referred to our relation to the entertainment industry, basically our consumption through commercial media so it will reach a huge and diverse majority of people. Also, it can be approached from what we do normally. There are many reasons why a person will engage to the forms of popular culture such as buying clothes or new devices. Peer pressure tops the list, as far having a sense of belong goes, not to feel left out, to join a certain crowd. For instance, listening to certain genres of music can define your age bracket, watching certain movies/ films defines your inclination to a particular culture
Popular culture and consumption have gone together since time in memorial. Consumption as opposed to popular culture doesn’t depend on the other but does to marketing and advertising. The way people consume things, is because of the different underlining reasons that cause us “people” to do so. For instance, certain items are consumed as is the right thing to do or as prescribed in cause of medicine, however, this had developed a culture of addiction with a few people. Consumption has also been propelled by the income people have. People who earn a lot, consume a lot of products regardless of their nature as compared to those with less.
Marketing and advertising has also played a big role in consumerism. Many business and industries have used marketing and advertising in a way to increase the customers’ margin since this will generate revenue and in turn contribute to the GDP.
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