"The Rise of Popular Culture: A Historiographical Sketch" by LeRoy Ashby is a very informative article. I found it to be a little dense, but it had a lot of useful information about many different intellectuals who studied popular culture. A large portion of the information that is presented in the article expresses how popular culture is a power structure and that there is a balance between people choosing to consume and people choosing what to consume. The past few weeks in this class has made me more aware of that power structure, particularly the more positive aspects of it. Despite being manipulated into consuming, we can manipulate what we consume. This means that we can be taught ideologies by pop culture, then unlearn those same ideologies from those same sources they originated from. Everyone in a culture is affected by it's pop culture, the more we understand, expose and decipher it, the more prominent the positive aspects will be.