Communication Perspectives on Popular Culture (eBook)

Andrew F. Herrmann is assistant professor of communication studies at East Tennessee State University.Art Herbig is associate professor of media production at Indiana University – Purdue University, Fort Wayne.

ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Not Another Pop Culture Series! Studying the World(s) We Occupy by Andrew F. Herrmann and Art HerbigChapter 1: Queering Popular Culture by Tony E. AdamsChapter 2: CultPopCulture: Reconsidering the Popular Culture Framework via the Engage, Adapt, and Transform (EAT) Model by Bob BatchelorChapter 3: “Saving People. Hunting Things. The Family Business”: Organizational Communication Approaches to Popular Cultureby Andrew F. HerrmannChapter 4: Who's the Boss? Leadership in the Popular Imaginationby Eric M. EisenbergChapter 5: In Space … Our Worst Will Make Us Scream: Reality Reflected in the Cultural Artifact Alienby Adam W. TymaChapter 6: Music’s Pervasive and Persuasive Role in Popular Cultureby Deanna SellnowChapter 7: Politics and Popular Cultureby Trevor Parry-Giles, Will P. Howell, and Devin ScottChapter 8: Public Relations Representations in Popular Culture: A ‘Scandal’ on Primetime Televisionby Cheryl Ann Lambert, Jessalynn Strauss, and Natalie T. J. TindallChapter 9: Critical Rhetoric and Popular Culture: Examining Rhetoric’s Relationship to the Popularby Art HerbigChapter 10: “Prison is bullshit”: An Intersectional Analysis of Popular Culture Representations of the Prison Industrial Complex in Orange is the New Black by Michelle Kelsey KearlChapter 11: Polymediating the Post: Reclaiming Feminism in Popular Cultureby Danielle M. Stern and Krista CatalfamoChapter 12: Thinking Conjuncturally about Counterculturesby Lawrence GrossbergChapter 13: Rethinking Studies of Relationships and Popular Culture: Notes on Approach, Method, and (Meta)Theoryby Jimmie ManningChapter 14: Public Opponents Cooperating: Possibilities for Dialogue in Popular Culture Controversiesby Rob Anderson and Kenneth N. CissnaChapter 15: “You Don't Know Me”: Portrayals of Black Fatherhood and Husbandhood in T.I. and Tiny: The Family Hustleby Siobhan E. Smith, Ryessia Jones, and Johnny JonesChapter 16: Video Gaming: Aggressively Socialby Robert Andrew DunnChapter 17: Popular Culture, Pedagogy, and Dialoguing Difference Starting Difficult Conversations in the Communication Classroomby Kristen L. McCauliff and Katherine J. DenkerBibliographyIndexAbout the Contributors