Pop culture pt 3

Pop-culture is neither innately good or bad for us. Through pop culture we have developed different levels of high achieving technological advancements that have connected us in more ways than were ever thought possible. I also believe that pop culture has desensitized us to many aspects of human interaction it has made the regular individual believe that he/she is in a higher social standing when it comes to likes or social media interaction which is simply not the case and has also started a lot of movements by gathering large masses of supporters simply with the push of the button though the validity of those movements can be questionable at times. This is because not everybody with a voice uses it for the betterment of society and a lot of the people in the forefront do it to amass a following form themselves. 

Before social media we had letters and messengers with the sole intention of spreading information these messengers would travel day and night to deliver these messages and in that same way we now can send one message to over a thousand people in less than a second no travel needed, We can now directly contact an individual through a phone call, We can now start and support movements in the blink of an eye. In the text written by Malcolm Gladwell for college students sat down at the lunch counter at the Woolworths in downtown Greensboro North Carolina. This was in the 1960s before the start of social media and during active civil rights violations against minorities. The numbers continue to grow and the supporters were male, female, black, white in the spectrum was larger than we thought. The quote or phrase that I kept in mind was that “social media can’t provide what social change has always required” and it makes sense because social movements require the foot work and drive, the impact cannot be made through a screen but the message can be conveyed with the device. So yes it is possible to promote activism and use social media to peddle a message forward but to create solidarity in the midst of chaos the presence is all that matters.

When it comes to Dan Stevens' take on receiving information through television I believe that a lot can be said from a psychological perspective. The developmental brain is like a sponge and when you put it in front of a TV screen it’ll soak up whatever information is given even if the information isn’t good information. Take for instance during the time of Covid The information that was continuously pushed into the heads of elementary school students and the rapid rise of social networking apps like Tik Tok created a fast pace sensory disturbance because it was a lot easier to receive instant gratification and a lot easier to scroll mindlessly. This allowed for a weaker attention span that I personally have noticed in the children that I work with today. But this is not for every child some parents filtered the amount of content that they were able to view and while some children were learning about TikTok dances other children children were able to learn different chemical compositions in order to create something like slime that allowed them to explore their creative and cognitive mind through stem resources allowing them to grow into their hobbies and future fields. I truly believe that there are many truths to what Dana stevens says about the quality every year. The quality of shows is dumbed down and the information is more and more surface level, for instance shows like teen titans/ and teen titans go or any new show that has been released. They are no longer witty they are just jumbled information.