Popular culture studies

{{Short description|Academic discipline}} '''Popular culture studies''' is the study of popular culture from a critical theory perspective combining communication studies and cultural studies. The first institution to offer bachelor's and master's degrees in Popular Culture is the Bowling Green State University Department of Popular Culture founded by Ray B. Browne.<ref name="raybrowne">{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/education/28browne.html?_r=0 | title=Ray Browne, 87, Founder of Pop-Culture Studies, Dies | work=The New York Times | date=27 October 2009 | access-date=12 March 2014 | author=Fox, Margalit}}</ref>

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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20050901053828/http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/POP-Culture.html Communications studies resources] - University of Iowa *[https://web.archive.org/web/20050924185011/http://www.culturalstudies.net/ Cultural Studies Central] *[http://www.pcaaca.org/ Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association (PCA/ACA)]

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