Written Analysis 5 - Week 6

Written Analysis 5

Meagan Morton

Popular Culture

Professor Omar Alomari

September 26, 2014

The popular culture topic that I chose to analyze for this course was Pinterest. I enjoy browsing Pinterest every day. I browse on my Kindle usually before I go to bed, and sometimes on my lunches. I find all kinds of ideas for my hobbies. I usually make my way to the humor section, right before I call it a night.

            I thought it would be easy to write 5 papers on Pinterest, but I really found myself fighting to find relevance to all the theories. Not that there was not any relevance, I was just not familiar with the study of popular culture. It was hard for me to connect the dots for the week of heroes and celebrities. But, when I read in the text book of the emotional attachment to heroes and celebrities, I knew that Pinterest completely catered to that. So, I focused on how Pinterest aids in the fascination of heroes and celebrities. I would have to say my favorite paper was on relating formulas to Pinterest. Pinterest is the ultimate formula creating tool, and in turn there are formulas in people’s lives that totally relate.

            Although I was able to relate in my mind the theories to Pinterest, I almost felt like I was writing the same thing every week, just with a different twist. But, my mind is definitely broadened with the research. I believe I learned most by reading others blogs and listening to their presentations. That really made things click in this class. At first, I thought we were to praise popular culture in this class. Wasn’t quite sure what I signed up for! But, once I found that other students were speaking their opinions and questioning the ethics of many popular culture topic, I was relieved. And listening to the teacher out take was great.

            Now, when I am on Pinterest, I have found myself browsing categories that I do not usually browse, outside of my hobbies. After taking this class, I have occasionally been curious about other popular culture items out there. I feel like I need to look just to keep myself educated on what’s going on outside of my world.