Psychology of Popular Media is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal dedicated to publishing empirical research concerning the psychological experience and effects of human interaction with popular media in all of its forms including social media, games, apps, and fictional narratives in all of their forms (e.g., film, television, books).
Psychology of Popular Media reports cutting-edge research that illuminates the human experience of living in a culture where popular media are ubiquitous and influential. The journal publishes both quantitative and qualitative empirical research as well as reviews, meta-analyses, and replications that contribute significantly to the field.
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We encourage contributions that demonstrate and/or acknowledge that there are both risks and benefits of popular media on human psychological functioning. Although the journal welcomes and encourages submissions from a wide variety of disciplines, topics should be linked to psychological theory and research.
The final paper, by Peter Beilharz, expands our perspective once more, this time by focusing on the sociology of popular culture in Australia and New Zealand. Beilharz is especially concerned with the attitude or stance toward the study of culture that he believes arises out of the position of the Antipodes in the larger world system. He seeks to trace the reciprocal movement of culture from center to periphery, and back, and concludes with reflections about practicing sociology in smaller places that are rich in interdisciplinary collaboration.
The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture is a web-based, peer-reviewed journal committed to the academic exploration, analysis and interpretation, from a range of disciplinary perspectives, of the interrelations and interactions between religion and religious expression and popular culture, broadly defined as the products of contemporary mass culture. The journal is based in Canada but is international in scope, and open to explorations of religion and popular culture in a variety of nationalities and cultures.
This book presents a comprehensive theoretical and historical overview of the phenomenon of contents tourism in Japan. Government, mass media, and scholarly interest in contents tourism is relatively new, and in its modern guise contents tourism behavior is closely associated with digital technology, the Internet, and social media.
The rich history of derivative works, parodies, and multiuse of the same contents in a media mix enriched by the highly popular formats of anime and manga led Japanese scholars to seek a different approach to analyzing the links between popular culture and tourism.
Contents Tourism in Japan is a groundbreaking book in an important and rapidly emerging area of scholarly, media, political and business interest. It will be of interest primarily to scholars and practitioners with a specialization in tourism and media, but also to those studying contemporary popular culture in Japan and East Asia.
Kyungjae Jang is a postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Advanced Tourism Studies, Hokkaido University. He holds a PhD and MA in tourism studies from Hokkaido University, and a BA from Korea University. Dr. Jang has conducted participatory research on transnational Japanese contents tourism, focusing on popular culture-related tourism and events in the USA, France, Tunisia, Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Dr. Jang was also the keynote speaker at the 2016 Tourism Summit Forum, China.
Literature, film and news media reflect and shape social perceptions of dementia which in turn impact on dementia stigma. The aim of this paper is to systematically review papers on the depiction and frames for dementia in literature, film, mass media and social media in order to better understand cultural stigma related to dementia.
Depictions of dementia in popular culture are associated with negative images and feelings, and social distance between people with dementia and those without. These correspond to dementia stigma in the public and as experienced by people with dementia. Further research is needed into the impact of literature, news and social media on dementia stigma and these cultural mediums might be used to reduce stigma.
Culture is our learned system of shared ideas, rules and meaning that influence how we act on and view the world [13]. Popular culture is the set of practices, beliefs, and materials that embody the shared meanings of a social system and includes news and social media, books and television, and linguistic conventions [14]. Popular culture reflects and influences attitudes and behaviour, for example the #MeToo movement [15].
This paper approaches the description of cultural stigma through the lens of popular culture. Our aim is to systematically review and synthesise research on the depiction of dementia in popular culture, focusing on the view of healthcare, humanities and social sciences. A qualitative systematic review of academic papers was chosen to bring together academic analysis across different types of media, as analysis of original sources over the many media types was assessed to be too broad in scope.
Strengths of this paper are that we took a systematic approach (a health methodology) to synthesising findings from papers that used arts and health methodologies and that analysed a range of cultural media. It allowed us to produce a broad, novel, systematic description of cultural stigma of dementia. However, some of the papers were difficult to include within our review approach. For instance, many of the included papers did not explicitly state how material were selected or their analysis approach as this is not a convention in arts research. This made critique and commentary on methodology difficult. We were not able to analyse differences over time in cultural depictions, or differences in depiction by media type, genre (fiction versus non-fiction) and styles (realists, for instance). This kind of analysis was not possible due to the heterogeneity in the papers in the media types described and country/culture. Further the review was limited to English language papers, and has a Western bias, although there were some papers describing non-Western cultural media.
Future research may be able to link the depiction of dementia directly to measures of dementia stigma. It could also include searching of the arts and humanities literature, investigating depictions of dementia in social media and blogs, framing analysis, cross-media and cross-cultural comparisons, and investigation of changes in depictions over time. It would be helpful if future papers on depictions of dementia were contextualised within cultures and analysis approaches were explicitly stated. Experimental studies might test the depiction of dementia using alternate frames and the impact of exposure to these frames on attitudes, feelings and intended or actual behaviour towards people with dementia. Research also needs to be conducted on how to influence media portrayals of dementia (e.g. through media guidelines). The way that health and social care practitioners frame dementia during clinical and support interactions might impact on how people with dementia and care partners see themselves, this needs further investigation. The influence scientists and health professionals discourse in popular culture on dementia stigma could also be investigated.
In conclusion, depictions of dementia in popular culture including how dementia is framed may influence dementia stigma and needs to be considered when working to decrease dementia stigma. When talking about and depicting people with dementia, we need to be mindful about the social impact of the words, images and messages that we use.
One of the aims of this dissertation is to conclude whether listening to specific genres of music, corresponds to drug consumption or drug experimentation. The second aim is to highlight whether popular culture is seen to offer a positive perception of poly-drug use in contrast to social and mass media and whether this causes a moral panic. The overall objective is to emphasise whether trends in popular culture and media are perennial; therefore, popular culture and mass media will not differ from the pre-conceived ideas set out historically, and how this ultimately affects the individual in contemporary society.
Chapters within this dissertation include a methodology section, literature-based discussion and a conclusion. The methodology section will primarily focus upon the research methodology and summarize the research technique. It shall take note of the advantages and disadvantages of both a literature-based discussion and secondary data collection. Lastly, it will address any ethical issues encountered during the writing of this dissertation. The second section will provide a comprehensive view of the existing literature that is relevant to popular culture, media, and identity. It will provide an in-depth analysis of the emergence of drug imagery in mainstream popular culture and media, bringing forward the normalisation and social identity concepts using fundamental case studies such as Leah Betts and mephedrone. The conclusion section shall draw together all the findings from the literature-based discussion, striving to support the research hypothesis.
Popular culture is arguably one of the most influential sources for positive perceptions of poly-drug use; it is noted that both illicit and licit drug use has continuously been considered lived elements within popular culture, therefore providing substantial concepts for popular culture literature. Blackman (1996) support this notion, stating that one of the visible links between youth culture and drug culture is the visible display of youth styles; it is possible to argue that there exists a repository of ideas and images in popular youth culture which are drug-influenced, (Blackman, 1996: 139). This gives the view that both drug consumption and popular culture, (and their mediations through society), are of some importance; for example, the distinction between both licit and illicit is maintained through definitions that are politically, but more importantly, socially administered. Before delving into this research, it is important to note (as Oksanen, 2012 does) that the recent body of research surrounding popular music and drug use is virtually non-existent; a large section of contemporary literature has concentrated on rave and techno club music. Thus, the data may be skewed, (Oksanen, 2012: 143). 2ff7e9595c
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