Most important concept learned

  I think the most important concept we learned is to think about different components in the way of popular culture study--from how the popular culture is formed and spread, to how can we analyze different things with the theory of it. We learned different ways of how people study popular culture like Marxists critics ,  Cultural Study and more. Take advertising as example, we learned what is false consciousness or what is conspicuous consumption. We tried to analyzed different topic and examples using the theory of popular culture on some interesting or problematic examples. We also spent a lot of time on discuss whether something is hegemonic, of discuss how the narratives or contents contributes to the theme. We discussed about different genres or subgenres  in Music but we also used the concept for the whole process of class. It's interesting to discover how the things we learned before are connected with things we are discussing or facing everyday. We applied the concept of thinking in a way of theory of popular culture a lot on class and expressed our opinion based on that. By learning this concept, I started to understand more of the popular culture on how they worked or why it goes in a certain way, and also found it interesting when we are looking into something we knew before or some events happened long before. By using the theory of popular culture, it helped us a lot on thinking critically and thinking about different perspectives. Instead of just being  a part of mainstream and follow it blindly, We are now provided a chance to look into different issue in an open perspective and learn more about it. We all are contributors of popular cultures, so it's helpful and great to know more about the study of it.