When I am asked what popular culture is, I immediately think of what you see on TV, hear on the radio and see on the cover of magazines in the check-out lines. It seems to be the culmination of what people think, enjoy, and find interesting. The American public has a very short attention span, so pop culture changes quite often.
Popular culture isn't very relevant in my line of work other than to make conversation with my fellow cube dwellers at the office. But, it is good to know about from time to time, keeping a good dialog with someone can be very handy when office politics are involved.
The popular culture artifact I chose was the TV show Family Guy. The show itself makes many punchlines based on was is going on in pop culture each episode. The show was also canceled in the beginning of this decade and brought back to life just a few years later by the culture it created amongst younger adults who were mostly in college. The show has had it's effect on pop culture in America, and it has had an effect on the show.
To show that it is also noticed in other parts of pop culture, you can see other television shows making references to it. You see people talking about it in many sit-coms as well as other animated shows such as The Simpsons and South Park. You can also be hard pressed not to find a reference to the show in some way on most people’s social networking pages, such as Facebook or Myspace
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