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RR 2016/150 The Routledge Companion to Global Popular Culture Edited by Toby Miller Routledge New York and London 2015 xxii + 535 pp. ISBN 978 0 415 64147 0 (print); ISBN 978 0 203 08184 6 (e-book) £150 $240 Routledge Companions
Keyword Popular culture
Review DOI 10.1108/RR-02-2016-0054
Turn on the television or radio, browse the internet, pick up a newspaper or a magazine, connect to social media or even just walk down the street. The chances are if you do any of these things, you will be exposed to popular culture in some form or other, and, at times, it can seem to permeate every aspect of our everyday lives. In its broadest terms, popular culture denotes a widely accepted set of customs and beliefs. As a concept, popular culture is nothing new, but, with the proliferation of the internet and over more recent years' social media, the channels to which we are exposed to popular culture have rapidly increased, and its influence is far-reaching.
From a scholarly perspective, popular culture is interdisciplinary, cutting across a range of other disciplines, including media...