Week 1 Questions

How has the academic reception of popular genres changed over time?

As time goes on society changes, fashion changes, music changes, values and opinions change and so does genres and popular genres. As we grow and develop ideas in society so do the genres that are created and viewed. Academically, a change in popular genres could be the relevance of genres used in academia during the time they are being received. Another way popular genre can be received academically is when someone takes offense to what is being portrayed within the genres, this can include politics and social issues that society is confronting depending on the year and time the genre becomes popular.

What might the value of studying them?

Learning is always valuable, Popular genres opens up new worlds and ideas for people to learn and create from, popular genres is so vast in its amount of definitions that it allows everyone to be able to enjoy some part of it regardless, if it is literature, film, games or media. Studying popular genres allows people to gain knowledge from topics that we can understand and find interesting as so many ideas and opinions pass through the genres. Through popular genres we can gain new ways to look at the world and new influences that can help better our work by enabling us to understand more about how the world around us is shaped by views and outlooks as well as being able to understand create flow and ideas.

Popular genres can also be good for our societies because we use old and new genres to determine how we live and change our views. We can grow as a community by learning from mistakes shown within popular genres studying them can give us insight on ways we can process and overcome situations before they happen and can plan to be able to change situations that need to be fixed.