- An accessible and engaging introduction to the critical study of popular culture featuring both classical and contemporary approaches and plenty of contemporary popular culture examples throughout. - Helps students develop analytical tools to identify and explain connections between popular culture and power, identity, diversity, and more. - Encourages students to reflect on how they consume and produce popular culture, and how that shapes their sense of self and connections to others.

- An accessible and engaging introduction to the critical study of popular culture featuring both classical and contemporary approaches and plenty of contemporary popular culture examples throughout. - Helps students develop analytical tools to identify and explain connections between popular culture and power, identity, diversity, and more. - Encourages students to reflect on how they consume and produce popular culture, and how that shapes their sense of self and connections to others.

Exploring Screen Culture via Apple's Mobile Devices: Life through the Looking Glass explores the role of mobile technologies in everyday life via the extended case study of Apple's mobile operating system (iOS) for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod. Via a detailed application (including numerous extended examples) of the experiences associated with Apple's iOS devices, Charles Soukup examines contemporary screen culture and how individuals navigate it via mobile technologies. Mobile devices provide a lifeline that sifts through, limits, and simplifies the complexities of rapid, vast, circulating information in postmodern culture. Particularly, simple, game-like applications with clear rules and numerical outcomes exceptionally focus, frame, and filter an overwhelming media-saturated culture. Rather than merely outlining the problems associated with a world dominated by digital screens, Exploring Screen Culture via Apple's Mobile Devices offers a means for understanding screen culture as well as viable solutions to the challenges facing contemporary social life.