Word: popularizer
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...special Pulitzer also went to Bob Dylan for his profound impact on popular music and American culture...
...people are expected to attend the conference, as well as the huge after party. Attracting all this talent was easier than Hwang expected. “In certain Internet circles, I think we’re bigger than Jesus,” he says. Ryan North, author of the popular Dinosaur Comics, knew instantly that he had to attend. “I remember thinking, ‘this is ridiculous,’” North says. “This is going to be absurd and I want to be a part of this...
...Changes in popular opinion are not only a matter of changing minds: they require communicating to society at large that minds are being changed. But much of the content of our social consciousness has nothing to do with laws or policy: the acceptability of subtle prejudices, the terms of political debate, or what subjects of public conversation are taboo—these cannot be legislated. How then do we know when opinions are changing...
...movie played the role of candid dinner party guest in the social dialogue over anti-Semitism in the 1940s. Indeed, in changing our attitudes about issues like race, religion, and sexuality—and in changing the content of our everyday political and social dialogue—popular culture consistently plays the part of emperor’s boy, one loud enough for all of us to hear...
...social change and political discourse, we need figures like Martin Luther King to mobilize individuals who share beliefs to make our policies reflect them, and we need opinion leaders like Congress and the Supreme Court to make policies that lead us to better beliefs. But we also need popular culture. It doesn’t tell us what to think—it tells us that others think what we think, too. It is the voice of the silent majority; it is the emperor?...