As the world turns, so do the days of our popular culture. Popular Culture is the behavior and custom patterns of our society through different mediums, technology, clothing, food and beliefs. Pop culture is ever evolving. From the realm of television entertainment, variety and family oriented shows consumed the media of past eras (Mary Tyler Moore, Andy Griffith), but today, it has since been replaced with reality television, such as, shows involving winning easy money or finding that perfect soul mate. Sports culture, which once thrived on basketball players striving to be outstanding shooters, has turned into a competition of who can complete the most show boating dunk.
Conforming to popular culture within a business environment is a necessity. Applying the constant updating of technology to a business is crucial to the efficiency of running a company. For example, an accountant's ledgers that were once only written on paper have been replaced by spreadsheets and QuickBooks. Also, Blackberry's have revolutionized the convenience of carrying out business meetings while out of the office instead of only meeting during normal business hours.
My pop culture artifact would be how Lebron James has revolutionized the sport of basketball. Not only has King James turned a basketball game into more than a sporting event, but rather a headlining show that has people who normally are not interested in the sport of basketball tuning in to see his amazing abilities and what he is going to bring to his next game. Lebron is not only a pop culture icon in the United States, but can be recognized on all corners of the earth by his high flying dunks, intense defensive aggressiveness and pure will to win at whatever cost at such a young age.
I found it very interesting that you decided to use LeBron James as your pop culture artifact. He is indeed a worldwide icon for not just basketball but sports in general. I also agree that knowledge and conformity to popular culture standards is very important to a person's career prospects. It does seem that even in a business environment the person or people who are not up on the latest in popular culture get ignored, overlooked or even in some cases made fun of. It is a sad reality but it happens more and more often.
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Technology is a major change in the business environment. Did you hear about how some companies are interviewing some candidates in the virtual world? They make interviewees make virtual people and come to an online meeting. This has helped some executives to be able to attend interviews that were unable to in the past. However, many people have difficulty with developing a virtual person. Many people are unable to figure out how to move the virtual person, so they can sit or etc. Further, many people have trouble clothing their virtual person.
ReplyDeleteI never thought about comparing the pet shop toys to previous toys. I was just thinking about now and not in the past. However, I felt you had a great suggestion and I will keep this in mind for future reference! Thanks.
Your comments about the business environment were intersting, it reminded me also that employers are looking at social networking sites before hiring people!
ReplyDeleteDo you think that LeBron James is similar in popular culture to Tiger Woods?
I do think that he is similar to Tiger Woods. I think they are both great for their sports and great role models.
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