Tag: normalization
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Researching Pop Culture and Militarism: Can Pop Culture Normalize Militarism/Militarization?
Selene Rivas - November 23, 2017 Can seemingly innocuous activities such as playing video games, watching movies, or binging on TV shows affect your ways to see the world or how you behave? Could it affect social norms? Is one able to “turn one’s brain off”, and not be affected beyond the most superficial level, by what one is consuming? Much has been written about violence in the media and how ...
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Researching Pop Culture and Militarism: How do things become normal?
Selene Rivas - November 21, 2017 Last article, we tried to answer the question of “what is normal?” and after a few examples, eventually settled on “normal is what a group of people are used to.” In ...