Memes are started by such media icons like Pee Wee Herman, Ren and Stimpy, Beavis and Butthead, Micheal Jackson, Madonna, certain music like Rap and corporations such as MTV are all guilty of spreading the media virus. ... Pee Wee Herman is teaching us how to deal with the "abnormal", Ren and Stimpy deal with homosexuality, Beavis and Butthead teach us how to be critical of what we are watching on television, Madonna gives us an understanding of sex, and Rap is dealing with racial discrimination. ...

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Aggressive music has always promoted violence in a direct way this easily noticed in 1970's punk music and even more so today in heavy metal. ... This is due to the origins of the music and how the mainstream media judges and delivers their once underground music. ... This is stated in Tricia Ross' book Black Noise in which she states, The way rap and rap-related violence are discussed in the popular media is fundamentally linked to a larger social discourse on the spacial control of black people' (Ross, 1994, p125) Ross believes that although the media wants to believe that th...

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Popular Culture Popular culture is the culture that is adopted and appeals to large masses of people, normally the middle class citizens. Culture consists of the customs and civilizations of a particular group. Popular culture means that artefacts and styles of human expression develop from th...

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