This document is a paper submitted by Karan D. Pandya from the 2018-20 batch of Smt. S. B. Gardi Department of English at Bhavnagar. The paper discusses popular culture and e-sports, beginning with definitions of culture and popular culture. It then explains the online multiplayer battle royale game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds or PUBG, how it works, and its popularity. Finally, it briefly mentions some other popular games and the dangerous Blue Whale game.

1. Name – Karan D. Pandya
Batch – 2018-20
Roll No – 18
Paper No 8 – Cultural Studies
Topic – Popular Culture and
E-
sports
Enrollment No -2069108420190029
Email ID-
pandyakaran32@gmail.com
Submitted – Smt. S. B. Gardi
Department of English Bhavnagar

2. What is Culture ?
-customs, and social behavior of a
particular people or society.
- Culture is the characteristics and
knowledge of a particular group of
people, encompassing language,
religion, cuisine, social habits, music
and arts.
- Video By Eva Hugo

4. What is Popular Culture ?
- practices, beliefs and objects that are dominant
or ubiquitous in a society at a given point in time
can be taken as popular culture.

6. Popular
culture
and E-sports

7. What is PUBG ?
-Online multiplayer battle royale game developed and
published by PUBG Corporation
-Inspired by the 2000 Japanese film Battle Royale
-In the game, up to one hundred players parachute onto an
island and scavenge for weapons and equipment to kill
others while avoiding getting killed themselves. The
available safe area of the game's map decreases in size over
time, directing surviving players into tighter areas to force
encounters. The last player or team standing wins the round.

8. Popularity of PUBG

9. PUBG Merchandise

11. Other Popular Games…

13. Blue Whale Game …

16. Thank
You