- Author:
Gabriela Piechaczek-Ogierman
- E-mail:
gabriela.piechaczek-ogierman@us.edu.pl
- Institution:
University of Silesia in Katowice
- Year of publication:
2018
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
192-202
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/kie.2018.02.12
- PDF:
kie/120/kie12012.pdf
Popular culture creates trends, shapes the world view, is a source of inspiration and identification of the young. The research results presented in this study show that youth in the final stage of adolescence judge the reality in a critical way. A significant number of the examined learners implement the model of identity shaped in the ‘down top’ direction. They reject media authorities and aim at creating their own concept of themselves. At the same time, a large percentage of the respondents respect media models associated with appearance and the consumerist lifestyle.
- Author:
Alicja Kargulowa
- Year of publication:
2017
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
9-29
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/kie.2017.02.01
- PDF:
kie/116/kie11601.pdf
The article aims to portray changes in provision and reception of contemporary counselling, which finds itself under a strong impact of popular culture. The pop culture is described as a phenomenon intimately related and saturating social life, scientific research and daily life of modern people. In postmodern mediatized reality, deeply immersed in popular culture, the guidance is sought by a Homo consultans-a reflexive individual that experiences uncertainty/helplessness and establishes an interpersonal relationship (dialogue) with another human being-a counsellor-with a view to solving his/her problems. Seeking guidance and attempting to use the counsellor’s help to understand oneself, others and the world, the counselee actually strives after sustainable personal development and decent life. Homo consultans-is simultaneously the active seeker of a guidance and the passive object of the attack of guidance practices.
- Author:
Marek Jeziński
- Institution:
Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
- Year of publication:
2014
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
248-262
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/kie.2014.03.13
- PDF:
kie/103/kie10313.pdf
The category of nostalgia is the element of artistic message frequently used in popular music, which influences the reception of a particular song. In their activity musicians refer to the musical past by employing cultural references and utilise fashions present in a certain environment for their own benefit. This category is present in lyrics and music, in the stage shows (performing live, festivals, TV shows) and promotional activities (interviews, promotional video clips for the songs). Such referring to tradition became a constant element of artistic communication, anchoring the music in the past and taking into account the cultural specificities. Definitional capturing of nostalgia is not entirely possible: research into this category require approaches which take into account the aspects of context important for decoding the cultural content. Interpretive tools used by semiology or cultural studies allow to depict the elements included in the form and content of music and lyrics. They indicate the presence of nostalgia as a category determining the reception of artistic work.
- Author:
Joanna Piechowiak-Lamparska
- Institution:
Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.
- Year of publication:
2013
- Source:
Show
- Pages:
105-117
- DOI Address:
https://doi.org/10.15804/athena.2013.40.07
- PDF:
apsp/40/apsp4007.pdf
The aim of this article is to analyse the influence of popular culture in the post-Soviet region with particular attention to the Americanization of politics in the Republic of Georgia. This region with the states that emerged after the dissolution of the USSR is particularly susceptible to the influences of alien cultures, which is connected with renouncing the homogenous Soviet culture and non-reconstruction and non-restoration of national cultures. Nowadays, the role of the dominant culture is played by popular culture based on the Western model; this culture is largely responsible for supplanting national culture in the post-Soviet states. Americanization of the Georgian culture in visible mostly in the process of mediatization and in the way election campaigns are conducted. This thesis is supported by the analysis of parliamentary elections held in 2004, 2008 and 2012.