【Lecture】Cole Highhouse:Youth Pop Culture, Gen Z, & Online Spaces in the US

讲座主题 / Title： 

Youth Pop Culture, Gen Z, & Online Spaces in the US

美国的青年流行文化、Z世代和网络空间

主讲人 / Lecturer：

Cole Henry Highhouse（新闻传播学院美国籍专家）

时间 / Time：

2023年9月22日（周五）14:00-15:30

Sept. 22, 14:00-15:30

地点 / Venue： 

松江校区一教楼237-238室

Room 237-238 , Building 1 (School of Journalism and Communication), Songjiang Campus

语言 / Language：

英语 English

About the Lecturer：

Cole Highhouse is an instructor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Shanghai International Studies University. He graduated from Bowling Green State University with a bachelor’s in Entertainment Business and Marketing. After graduation Cole spent the remainder of the year working various jobs in live event production and logistics while moving to Los Angeles to pursue an internship in music publicity. Following the start of the pandemic he returned to Ohio and decided to further his education, graduating with a master’s in International and Intercultural Communication. His research interests include social media, popular culture and soft power, popular music, and online communities.

Abstract:

This presentation aims to introduce several topics covering how the youth, particularly Generation Z, interacts with and utilizes online spaces from an American perspective. Constant changes to the online media landscape require us to constantly re-evaluate our approach to viewing these subjects. From changing attention spans and attitudes to altering how each generation consumes news and media, a static view of the internet will never suffice while new platforms and technologies are being introduced. 

Online spaces allow us to interact in ways not possible in the past. With each generation, the technological divide grows, leaving behind those that choose not to keep up. Younger people in America are able to interact with the world and consume content in an increasingly borderless way. One way we see this change is through the rise in popularity of non-English language music, film, and television. Approaches to these topics can take on both a positive or negative lens, possibly as a testament to their ever-changing nature and our inability to know the potential long term impact. Information abundance and overload have become more frequently discussed and communities are becoming increasingly niche as internet access expands globally and people discover spaces to further or strengthen their perspectives, for better or for worse.

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