Popular culture -- excellent portal -- COM 150

Here's a website that tells you what you need to know about popular culture and gets you started on finding out the stuff you want to know. It's by T.V. Reed (I'm not kidding about his initials), an American Studies professor at Washington State University in Pullman.

Reed includes resources on "forms of popular culture including music, film, television, advertising, sports, fashion, toys, magazines and comic books, and the medium in which this message moves, cyberculture." He also includes lots of links.

Of the links, Reed says

As with all Internet sites, the locations referenced vary in quality and usefulness. Some are commercial sites valuable more as objects of knowledge than as producers of knowledge. Others are academic sites that teach ways to analyze pop culture, or offer substantial resources for doing your own analyses.

Since the Internet seldom, if ever, provides all the information needed on a given topic, I also strongly recommend that you consult my bibliography of books on popular culture, and use that old-fashioned, non-virtual space known as the library.

Now there's a concept. The library! And you don't even have to go to Pullman, Wash., to fine one. We have one at SCI, too.