Last updated: August 27, 2012
| Assigned and Suggested Readings | 
| Harry
Potter site-ings | 
| Researching Popular Culture on the Web | 
| Popular Culture Readings on the Web | 
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| Talk Like a Gamer Deciphering the jargon | 
| "Making Sense of Software: Computer Games and Interactive Textuality" Friedman | 
| The Structure of Video Game Narration Kirksæther | 
| "The World Is My Game Room" Kafka | 
| "Literary Theory and Computer Games" Kucklich | 
| Video Games and Young Players | 
| "Perspectives of Computer Game Philology" Kucklich | 
| "Gore Galore: Literary Theory and Computer Games" Rockwell | 
| Yin-Yang Theory for Movies and Computer Games | 
| Yahoo's Directory of Video Games/Members | 
| Beginning of a Collection ofPopular Culture Readings on the Web | 
| MTV
and the Globalization of Popular Culture | 
| Janet Wolff, Cultural Studies and the Sociology of Culture | 
| Will Straw, The Thingishness of Things | 
| Mark Woolley, Beyond Simulation: Production and the Nostalgia Industry | 
| Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception (1944)from Dialectic of Enlightenment | 
| Thorstein
Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of
Institutions | 
| Adam Katz,
"Postmodern Cultural Studies: A Critique | 
| Peter Gibian, The Art of
Being Off-Center: Shopping Center Spaces and Spectacles | 
| Robin Markowitz,
Canonizing the Popular | 
| David Butz, Finding Space for Resistant Subcultures | 
| Norma Schulman,Conditions
of their Own Making: An Intellectual History of the Centre for
Contemp.Cult.Studies at Univ.of Birmingham | 
| Disney World: Cities of Simulation as Postmodern Utopias | 
| On Fish and meaning | 
| Ted Friedman, The World of Coca-Cola | 
| Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction - | 
| S.Jena, Globalisation and Popular Culture: Reading Advertisements Sociologically | 
| MTV (global) | 
| Japanese Popular Culture: Japan Pop! | 
| Kellner, Nietzsche's Critique of Mass Culture | 
| Cultural Values in Beer Advertising: A look at beer commericals from the UK, the Netherlands and Germany. | 
| Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization | 
| Mass Mediations:New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond | 
| Alex Perry, Coca-Colonization | 
| Danielle Todd, Transnational Advertising | 
| Renegotiating Culture and Society in a Global Context- Stacy Takacs | 
| Brad Eirich, MTV | 
| Contesting Globalisms: The Transnationalization of U.S. Cultural Studies, Claudia Sadowski-Smith | 
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