{"id":10,"date":"2009-12-24T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/o-dub.com\/cv\/?p=10"},"modified":"2022-08-09T17:59:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T17:59:26","slug":"reflections-from-a-sociologist-of-popular-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Reflections from a Sociologist of Popular Culture&#8221; (Personal essay, 2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/footnotes.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/footnotes.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-122\" width=\"563\" height=\"86\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/footnotes.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/footnotes-300x46.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/footnotes-520x79.jpeg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><b>Wang, Oliver. &#8220;Reflections from a Sociologist of Popular Culture.&#8221;<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><b> <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asanet.org\/footnotes\/nov09\/reflections_1109.html\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Footnotes<\/span><\/a><\/i><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: normal;\">. Vol 37 (8), Nov-Dec 2009.<\/span><\/b><\/span><br><\/b><br>Personal essay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Background: I was asked by Footnotes to contribute an essay describing my path into studying popular culture as both a scholar and journalist and the particular rewards and challenges it creates along the way. I have to admit; this was much harder to write than I thought it would be (perhaps a sure sign that my skills in writing are not being kept as honed as they could!) but it was a good exercise in getting me to actually think about the integration of different interests in my professional life.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wang, Oliver. &#8220;Reflections from a Sociologist of Popular Culture.&#8221; Footnotes. Vol 37 (8), Nov-Dec 2009.Personal essay. Background: I was asked by Footnotes to contribute an essay describing my path into studying popular culture as both a scholar and journalist and the particular rewards and challenges it creates along the way. I have to admit; this&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal-essay","category-popular-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oliverwang.net\/cv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}