Tag: Popular culture
With higher fees and more ads, streaming services like Netflix, Disney+...
Kathryn Cramer Brownell, Purdue University
There’s one thing that television viewers can count on in 2024: higher fees and...
‘Good Times’: 50 years ago, Norman Lear changed TV with a...
Angela M. Nelson, Bowling Green State University
I loved watching Norman Lear’s trailblazing television shows when I was growing...
‘Across the Spider-Verse’ and the Latino legacy of Spider-Man
Regina Marie Mills, Texas A&M University
As a Latino literature and media scholar, a lifelong gamer and a Guatemalan-American...
‘The Activist’ reality TV show sparked furor, but treating causes as...
Alexandra Budabin, University of Dayton and Lisa Ann Richey, Copenhagen Business School
CBS quickly backpedaled after an announcement about...
WTF? Slurs offend young adults more than swearing
Benjamin Bergen, University of California San Diego
In 1972, the comedian George Carlin performed a comedy routine in which he listed the seven words you...
The hidden superpower of ‘Black Panther’: Scientist role models
Clifford Johnson, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
I’m not the first to say that the upcoming Marvel movie...
New ways scientists can help put science back into popular culture
Clifford Johnson, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
How often do you, outside the requirements of an assignment, ponder...
What the ‘Fearless Girl’ statue and Harvey Weinstein have in common
Sarah Banet-Weiser, University of Southern California, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
In March of this year, State Street Global Advisors unveiled the “Fearless Girl,”...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
