A Critique of John Frow’s Popular Culture Through the Lens of Gamification

Khoi Le

doi:10.29173/writingacrossuofa83

A Critique of John Frow’s Popular Culture Through the Lens of Gamification

Authors

Khoi Le University of Alberta

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29173/writingacrossuofa83

Keywords:

popular culture, Frow, power structure, technology

Abstract

In this argumentative paper, Khoi Le analyzes John Frow’s “The Concept of the Popular” in order to illustrate how technologies mediate people’s experiences and how popular culture, which is closely intertwined with technologies, changes over time because of its close connection to technology.