Problem: Outline for response with references from the reading below for three of the five questions below. For each response, cite at least three course readings from at least two different weeks. In your responses, define and use specific concepts from the readings in order to answer the questions. Use lecture notes as needed in your responses.
What is the role of industrialisation in the formation of consumer society, and how does this affect our understanding of popular culture?
How does style in the context of mass culture relate to the formation of identity?
How does the political economy of the internet and digital media shape political agency in the context of popular culture?
How might the factors driving the rise of fake news and misinformation reshape the "public connection" associated with popular news consumption?
How does technology function to shape popular culture in terms of the experience of public space?
The reading includes:
1. Bull Privatizing Urban Space iPod by Michael Bull
2. Seeing Things by Bunz & Meikle
3. Media Ecology and Hashtag Activism by Crandall & Cunningham
4. Decline of Trust in Journalism by McNair
5. Totally Wired by Osgerby