S3EP10: The Borders of Culture
We are exposed to so much popular culture everyday that it's astounding. You've seen more stories than Shakespeare, you've heard more music than Mozart, you've seen more diverse images than Caravaggio...
10 Des 202328min
S3Ep09: Television as Myth Maker
The medium of television has some very deep concerns for psychologists. The more we learn about it, the more we know how such a powerful medium can change the way people work together. In the second h...
26 Nov 202333min
S3Ep08: Intro to Television
The defining characteristic of our culture is the ability to tell stories. Stories have guided the fabric of our culture since our larynx became capable of speech. We learn through stories what the ex...
12 Nov 202331min
S3Ep07: The Music Industry
The music industry does something really amazing: it creates identity templates and invites us to reform ourselves through them. This makes us easier to predict, easier to please, and much, much easie...
22 Okt 202324min
S3Ep06: American Music
American music reflects the dichotomy of the country: great wealth and oppression. Popular music in America has always been the voice of the counterculture, the voice of the working class (or slave), ...
15 Okt 202336min
S3Ep05: Ad Creep
Wrapping up our talk about advertising, let's go full-foil-hat and take a look at the underside of advertising that we would rather avoid. Advertisements are sneaking into our daily lives, grabbing ou...
30 Sep 202330min
S3Ep04: Gender Stereotypes in Ads
Why do some people consider ads "harmful?" Part of it has to do with the amazing power they have to perpetuate stereotypes. When stereotypes become powerful, they become expectations; when expectation...
17 Sep 202330min
S3Ep03: Intro to Advertisig
Having covered the cultural groundwork on which popular culture is built, we are finally now able to discuss advertising. Responsible for nearly 20% of the American economy, advertising is a huge pres...
5 Sep 202331min
