I was lucky enough to get an area of the public sphere that really interests me, pop culture. As I was thinking about what sources and areas of pop culture that I wanted to be our seminar “ambassador” for, I immediately went to the New York Times online. In my last semester of high school, I took a class called “contemporary issues” in which I got constant e-mail updates from the NYT online on what was happening in the world. Also, my family has been getting copies of the New York Times every morning for as long as I can remember, so naturally I was inclined to check out this website before I did anything else! I was really interested in the article we discussed in our blogs about sex on campus and the public response, so I wanted to follow a topic that I thought would interest me as much as that did. While scrolling through the opinion pages and style and art sections of the New York Times online, I discovered an article that was really about money. While “money” is such a broad category, I think that focusing on the use and importance of money in the public sphere will be instrumental to our class discussion. Pop culture is centered on money and those who have money, those who used to not have money, and those who are struggling to have enough money. I think money is clearly an important part of the public sphere and will be pertinent to class discussions and pop culture, and I think the New York Times has such a variety of reporters and opinion writers that it will be a very reliable source for my information in this class!
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