An accessible and engaging introduction to the critical study of popular culture, which provides students with the tools they need to make sense of the popular culture that inundates their everyday lives.
Charles Soukup is Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Northern Colorado, where his work engages the social impacts of communication technology and media ecology. Soukup is the author of Exploring Screen Culture via Apple's Mobile Devices: Life through the Looking Glass (2016), and has published work on digital ethnography, representations of technology and pleasure in film, television and conspiracy, video games and masculinity, and fandom.
Christina R. Foust is Professor of Communication Studies at Metropolitan State University of Denver, where her work engages rhetoric, power, and social change in a variety of contexts, including social movements and popular culture. She is lead editor of What Democracy Looks Like: The Rhetoric of Social Movements and Counterpublics (2017), and author of Transgression as a Mode of Resistance (2010). Her recent work considers media ecology and memes in social movement.
