BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//PYVOBJECT//NONSGML Version 1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Shanghai BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20000101T000000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=1 TZNAME:CST TZOFFSETFROM:+0800 TZOFFSETTO:+0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260809T035104Z - 45142@iZuf69e0i0z4ibdboqb33jZ DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20260815T160000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20260815T180000 CREATED:20260809T035104Z DESCRIPTION:Are You Pop-S hy? Decoding The Culture We Swear We Don't Follow\nMaybe you don't lis ten to chart music. You avoid whatever is trending\, prefer independent fi lms\, have your own very specific taste\, and would never describe yoursel f as a "pop culture person." Congratulations—you might be Pop-Shy. In th is interactive discussion and workshop\, Ben will challenge the idea that any of us can really stand outside popular culture. Through debates\, game s and thought experiments\, we'll explore what actually makes something "p op\," why being alternative can become an identity of its own\, and how ye sterday's rebellious subculture—from streetwear to craft coffee—so oft en becomes tomorrow's mainstream. We'll also explore how algorithms have c ompletely changed what "mainstream" even means. Two people can live in the same city\, use the same internet and inhabit almost entirely different c ultural worlds—each carefully shaped by recommendations\, communities an d their own personal taste. We'll examine how trends travel between cultur es\, how the things we consume become signals about who we are\, and why e ven the culture we dislike can help define us. Come prepared to move aroun d\, make choices\, defend your questionable cultural tastes and perhaps di scover that you're much more entangled with pop culture than you'd like to admit. Because whether we're embracing it\, remixing it or proudly reject ing it\, we're all helping to create it. 也许你不听榜单音乐，回 避热门趋势，偏爱独立电影，有自己极其独特的品味， 并且绝不会称自己为“流行文化爱好者”。恭喜你—— 你可能患有“流行羞耻症”（Pop-Shy）。在这场互动讨论 与工作坊中，Ben 将挑战“我们可以完全置身于流行文化 之外”这一观念。通过辩论、游戏和思想实验，我们将 探索究竟是什么让事物变得“流行”，为什么“另类” 本身也会成为一种身份认同，以及昨日的叛逆亚文化（ 从街头服饰到精品咖啡）为何如此频繁地成为明日的主 流。 我们还将探讨算法如何彻底改变了“主流”的定义 。两个人可以住在同一座城市，使用同一个互联网，却 身处截然不同的文化世界——每一个世界都由推荐算法 、社群和个人品味精心塑造。我们将审视趋势如何在不 同文化间流动，我们消费的内容如何成为定义自我的信 号，以及为何即便是我们讨厌的文化也在反向定义着我 们。请准备好动起来、做选择、为你那些“ questionable ” 的文化品味辩护，并或许会发现你与流行文化的纠葛远 比你想承认的要深。因为无论我们是拥抱它、重构它还 是自豪地拒绝它，我们都在参与创造它。 DTSTAMP:20260809T035104Z LOCATION:China\,\, Shanghai SUMMARY:Are You Pop-Shy? Decoding The Culture We Swear We Don't Follow END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR