Table of Contents
Popular Culture and Communication Practice
Editor’s Introduction: Popular Culture
Popular Culture and Communication Practice . . . . 4
1. An Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
A. Popular culture in communication practices:
An overview of the essay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2. Defining Popular Culture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3. Popular Culture and Journalism . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
A. Popular journalism:
An antithesis to good journalism . . . . . . . . . . 8
B. What defines popular journalism . . . . . . . . . . 9
C. Lifestyle and celebrity journalism:
Incorporating interests of the mass . . . . . . . . .10
4. Popular Culture and Strategic Communication . .12
A. Popular culture as a field of interest
for strategic communication research . . . . . . .12
B. Extant strategic communication research
with a focus on popular culture . . . . . . . . . . .12
C. Systemizing forms of engagement with
popular culture in strategic communication . .14
5. Epilogue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
Featured review
Communication for Development . . . . . . . . . . .19
Briefly Noted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Recommended Citation
Buhmann, Alexander; Hellmueller, Lea; and Bosshart, Louis
(2015)
"Popular Culture and Communication Practice,"
Communication Research Trends: Vol. 34:
Iss.
3, Article 1.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/crt/vol34/iss3/1