SCIENCE AND SCI-FI LITERATURE IN POPULAR CULTURE TV’S IMPACT ON TODAY’S MAN

SCIENCE Even if science can sound strange amoung the things we call ‘Popular Culture’, it is more ‘alive’ than it has ever been before. Don’t just think about robots that everybody uses, like the washing machine, microwave oven and the Smartphone in your pocket. Science is FUN. You can call us crazy and we don’t blame you, but people who enjoy doing science exist in all corners of the world and they are a big community whose number of members increases day by day.

SCIENCE I fucking love science If you haven’t ever heard about this Facebook page, you should give it a try. And yes, it is the name of the page and no, it hasn’t been banned, yet. Why is it so important? What do we find on this page? A lot of funny things, quotes from people like you and us who like doing what they do – and have at least a PhD in one field of science; memes and usually what is new about everything. The most ‘wanted’ moment on the page is a weekly inventory where there is a brief description of every major event in science. It’s a good thing for our general knowledge and it’s not a waste of time

TELEVISION Television is good. Pop culture is fun. You have the time. You're not so busy. TV is a constant presence in our lives. With its fast-moving, visually interesting, highly entertaining style, it commands many people's attention for several hours each day. Studies have shown that television competes with other sources of human interaction—such as family, friends, church, and school—in helping young people develop values and form ideas about the world around them. It also influences viewers' attitudes and beliefs about themselves, as well as about people from other social, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds.

TELEVISION The Big Bang Theory & Breaking Bad Cosmos and chemistry, a galaxy far away and an atom – they are the main subjects in these TV shows – the scientific ones. Both combine a lot of stuff we are learning in school that can sometimes be very rich in information and hardly be understood, but if they are put into a funny joke, everything seems to be easier. For ones who want to have some fun or are stuck on ‘boring mode’, we strongly recommend The Big Bang Theory. This is the result when science, some guys, some girls and a little bit of love are put together in the same movie. But if you find yourself searching for a faster pace and you think LSD changed Jim Morrison into a rock star, you should watch Breaking Bad.

SCI-FI LITERATURE Literacy and literature have been fundamental in discussions of popular culture in the early modern period. On the one hand, popular culture, defined negatively in contrast to elite culture, has often been seen as the culture of the illiterate, a culture transmitted orally by customs and practice, not through the printed word. It has been argued that the growing literacy of the middling sort, and the sharp social distinctions observed in the ability to sign, created a growing divide between a literate, respectable culture and the oral world of popular tradition. Yet, at the same time, historians have sought to uncover the values of popular culture through the growing mass of ‘popular literature’, notably ballads, chapbooks and other ephemeral publications but also the radical and other writings of the minority of working people who recorded their views and experiences in print.

SCI-FI LITERATURE There are many books, from novels to poems, which completely show what ‘Popular Culture’ represents. Some exemples of them are: To Kill a Mockingbird The Scarlet Letter Nineteen Eighty – Four Dracula Frankenstein The Three Laws of Robotics Authors as Isaac Asimov contected the literature part with the science one. In the book The Three Laws of Robotics, Asimov illustrated a set of rules for the future science world which is supposed to be filled with robots. The Three Laws, quoted as being from the "Handbook of Robotics, 56th Edition, 2058 A.D.", are: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.