Speeches (Pop Culture)

Why Pop Culture?: Alexandre O. Philippe

Shereen El Feki: Pop culture in the Arab world

Why videos go viral | Kevin Allocca

A Passion for Pop Culture | Michael Zapcic

My love letter to cosplay | Adam Savage

What Happens After a Song Goes Viral on TikTok

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Pop Culture

Why Pop Culture?: Alexandre O. Philippe

What is the role popular culture plays in expressing our values of community? Take a fresh look at the icons that our collective consciousness brings to the surface and the rituals that celebrate them with this entertaining documentary filmmaker.

Shereen El Feki: Pop culture in the Arab world

Shereen El Feki shows how some Arab cultures are borrowing trademarks of Western pop culture -- music videos, comics, even Barbie -- and adding a culturally appropriate twist. The hybridized media shows how two civilizations, rather than dividing, can dovetail.

Why videos go viral | Kevin Allocca

Kevin Allocca is YouTube's Head of Culture & Trends, and he has deep thoughts about silly web video. In this talk from TEDYouth, he shares the 4 reasons a video goes viral.

A Passion for Pop Culture | Michael Zapcic

Michael Zapcic: Podcaster, TV Personality, Comic Book Expert Michael reveals his "secret origins" as a comic book nerd and pop culture lover. His childhood fascination with classic stories of right and wrong, good vs. evil, all set against a four-color backdrop, has evolved into a life and career of amazing stories and uncanny adventures. His lifelong devotion to the comic book medium allowed Michael to step off an unfulfilling path prescribed for him by family and friends and in...

My love letter to cosplay | Adam Savage

Adam Savage makes things and builds experiments, and he uses costumes to add humor, color and clarity to the stories he tells. Tracing his lifelong love of costumes -- from a childhood space helmet made of an ice cream tub to a No-Face costume he wore to Comic-Con -- Savage explores the world of cosplay and the meaning it creates for its community. "We're connecting with something important inside of us," he says. "The costumes are how we reveal ourselves to each other."

What Happens After a Song Goes Viral on TikTok

It’s no secret that TikTok is a virality machine. Songs get turned into sounds that can be used in any video, and if they gain enough traction they can catapult a musician into the pop culture stratosphere. But we wanted to know exactly what happens between a song going viral and an artist becoming a bonafide success. So in the fall of 2021, we partnered with data analysis website The Pudding figure it out.