Popularity

With popularity ( from the Latin populus, "people" ) refers to

• The popularity of a person or a product in a group of people. It is an essential product of public opinion (see below),
• The Community clarity of presentation of a complex, for an audience really difficult to understand subject matter while largely avoiding technical terms and reasoning.

Measurement of popularity by opinion polls

Pollsters measure from time to time on behalf of or for publication, the popularity of people or ideas through opinion polls. Mainly at election time popularity scales of politicians are then placed.

Measurement of popularity on the Internet

The popularity of an "object " (person, company, product, location, etc. ) can also be measured via the Internet. This is examined through appropriate queries, how often and in what context this object is mentioned on sites on the internet. If you ( film actor, doctors from Bochum, MP3 player manufacturers etc. ) summarizing the results of objects " similar nature" we can immediately estimate a ranking create. If this is done for comparing a group of objects, creates a web ranking.

Mechanisms of popularity

Popularity receives a self- reinforcing mechanism in that the mass media couple popular actors and events. 1966 John Lennon claimed: " The Beatles are more popular today than Jesus. ", Sparking a debate about the cult of celebrity from. The consequences were public burnings plate by fundamental Christians, radio boycotts and death threats. What the pop group lost on one side in popularity, but also gave her other hand in the then rebellious youth new feed. Only when events occur or fall utterances that conflict with a society-wide consensus, a politician or pop star is losing popularity.

Common course

Etc. The common course of a lecture, a book first requires the presentation of a scientific and / or technical subject matter as well as a respect to this / s Science / compartment not ( significantly ) preformed audience. It follows that the foundations of this / s Science / compartment ( Termini, reasoning, knowledge, etc.) can not be assumed and either within the display or explained by various techniques such as pictorial or exemplary formulation must be replaced. The common course is for a different concept than the intelligibility of a text. Especially in the mass media necessarily the most common representations must be made to understand. One very visible sign of this trend on television, for example, through history shows, science shows, etc.

Relationship between popularity and common course

A man can its popularity just reach in that it represents a generally respected as incomprehensible art, but this makes it accessible to a wide audience. See, for example, the astrophysicist Stephen Hawking or the physicist Harald Lesch.