1: Media and Culture
Watch the attached video clip (Alisa Miller) about news media in the United States as a way to begin our conversation about Popular Culture and Intercultural Communication.
www.ted.com/index.php/talks/alisa_miller_shares_the_news_about_the_news.html (Links to an external site.)
What is your response after watching this clip? How do you think mass media influence our understanding of the wider world and cultural groups with whom we normally don't have any daily contact?
2: Pop Culture
Consider the article by Porochista Khakpour and the video by Shereen El Feki. How do the perspectives of these two women differ? In what ways do they demonstrate the influence of pop culture ACROSS cultures? Can cultures adopt facets of different cultures and still retain their identities?