Purpose Management educators often seek out innovative ways to introduce theories and concepts in such a way that students are more engaged and connected with the course material. A meme is an image juxtaposed with short text that elicits emotional responses from its readers and is now a staple...

Purpose This study adopts the popular culture lens to investigate the collective understanding behind the human resources (HR) occupations. Design/methodology/approach The empirical study analyzes 129 characters from 87 movies, television (TV) series, books and comics. The measurement model was...

"This volume considers world-making as the intersection of the fan pilgrimage experience and the responses of destinations. It examines the emerging field of popular culture tourism and its connection with fan studies and placemaking. It integrates theory and practice and provides evidence-based...

"This book studies the relationship of popular culture to older formations of political economic thought, which have made their way into a range of fictions as a fabulous, though feasible, source of resistance to the hegemony of neoclassical economics."

"Sounds Irish, Acts Global critically examines both the history of Ireland's popular music industry as well as the current music scene in the country. This book is of interest to business students as well as popular music scholars in addition to non-academic readers."

Exploring the extensive world of HBO's Game of Thrones series to illustrate leadership theories supported by scholarly research, Bend the Knee or Seize the Throne analyzes characters and scenarios from the series to demonstrate and deconstruct different examples of leadership and leader...

Popular representations of development need to be taken seriously (though not uncritically) as sources of authoritative knowledge, not least because they are how most people in the global north (and elsewhere) encounter development issues. To this end, this paper presents three clusters of films...

Introduction: the making of Black womanhood -- Theorizing Black women's cultural influence through consumption -- From riots to style: the history of Black Barbie -- From bootstraps to glass slippers: Black women's uplift in Disney's princess canon -- A Black Barbie's moment: Nicki Minaj and the...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to expose librarians, scholars and other interested parties to the numerous films available concerning the 1989 and 1991 European revolutions. The films that are discussed can potentially be used as ancillary sources that will lead to a more in-depth...

"The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that captured-and transformed-the world's imagination. The Walkman. Karaoke. Pikachu. Pac-Man. Akira. Emoji. We've all fallen in love with one or another of Japan's pop-culture creations, from the techy...

"Getting busy with the fizzy" : Johansson, SodaStream and Oxfam : exploring the political economics of celebrity activism / Nathan Farrell -- Celebrities in socially engaged campaigns : the making of solidarity capital / Bruno Campanella -- Funded by philanthropy, founded for activism : Nobel...

This book explores the relationships between popular music, technology, and the changing media ecosystem. More precisely, it looks at infrastructures and practices of music making and consuming primarily in the post-Napster era of digitization - with some chapters looking back on the...

Spätestens seit dem letztjährigen Auftritt von Conchita Wurst mit ihrem provokanten Mix aus männlichen und weiblichen Zügen hat der Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) in ganz Europa Aufmerksamkeit erregt. Neben der großen öffentlichen Teilnahme existieren aber auch eine ganze Reihe...

Spätestens seit dem letztjährigen Auftritt von Conchita Wurst mit ihrem provokanten Mix aus männlichen und weiblichen Zügen hat der Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) in ganz Europa Aufmerksamkeit erregt. Neben der großen öffentlichen Teilnahme existieren aber auch eine ganze Reihe...

"This book explores media influence on consumers in a globalized world. It also analyzes popular culture, media, and consumption in disciplines such as sociology, communication, social work, business and international relations"--

"This book explores media influence on consumers in a globalized world. It also analyzes popular culture, media, and consumption in disciplines such as sociology, communication, social work, business and international relations"--

Purpose Development of economic understandings fosters the growth of democratic citizenship competencies. Elements of popular culture should be recognized for the influence they have on children’s economic decisions. Children should learn of the concept of popular culture to regulate its...

This paper investigates how and why various central ministries in Japan have adopted policies promoting Japanese popular culture such as manga (comic books), anime (animated films and TV shows), games, fashion and so forth, which had formerly been neglected by the state due to their stigmatized...

This paper investigates the basic mechanisms of representation of the past in British popular music in the early 2000s. Changes in the music industry associated with the emerging and wide dissemination of new media has affected the search for new musical decisions, reformatting attitudes to the...

Popular representations of development need to be taken seriously (though not uncritically) as sources of authoritative knowledge, not least because they are how most people in the global north (and elsewhere) encounter development issues. To this end, this paper presents three clusters of films...

Between pink Hollywood and the black wave -- A change in rhythm -- Modernism and the avant-garde in the struggle for socialism -- Life in the American style -- Conclusion. The American dream the Yugoslav way?