The argument is that the Madisonian system of republican government, which Tocqueville so admired, has been hollowed out in the name of "more democracy": "America is increasingly embracing a simple-minded populism that values popularity and openness as the key measures of legitimacy...
Especially because, while it won't have proven brand value, its popularity will be immediately tested by virtual audience response.
We, as adolescents, need further compliments from people we probably won't ever meet; teenagers value online popularity higher than those in real life.
For example, metrics were used for calculating a value for popularity based on specified tweet metadata (friend's count, followers count etc).
A preliminary qualitative study based on 30 face-to-face interviews has led to the development of a new conceptual framework including aesthetic (design appeal), functional (perceived quality), brand value (brand popularity), social (subjective norm) and cultural influences (mianzi).
The site has some nice touches, like a scrolling wall of logos to help you quickly build out a roster of your favorite brands, and a graph that plots the ranking of brands based on their market value and popularity.
This tension between the real value of popularity and how stupid and destructive it is as a goal is something Mitch Prinstein unpacks in his new book, Popular: The Power of Likability in a Status-Obsessed World, which came out yesterday from Viking.
Spray cut chrysanthemum is a vital flower with high ornamental value and popularity in the world.
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines a Killer, or breakthrough, Application as "a computer application of such great value or popularity that it assures the success of the technology with which it is associated; broadly: a feature or component that in itself makes something worth having or using" [ 1].
In contrast to science fiction films' slightly grubby image in the 1950s and 1960s, today's movies are remarkable for their high production values and popularity.
