New Perspectives on Pop Culture

• Other Authors: Stein, Daniel (Editor), Werber, Niels (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: The arts; pop aesthetics; quantitative and qualitative popularity; metrics of popularity; charts and bestseller lists; high/low distinctions; accommodation, resilience, resistance; algorithms and digital culture
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

While the established qualitative meaning of the term 'popular culture' remains pertinent, as superhero comics and pop music, Hollywood films and TV thrillers, and pulp fiction and videogames are still quite naturally assigned to the realm of popular culture and thus excluded from high cul...