I've been reading about the difference between folk and pop culture and from what I understood, the only difference is pop culture started out as folk culture but is now spread around the world coming from the same source. I also understood that pop culture was created with the help of the digital world; people who share the same traditional folklore stories come together and talk about legends and the like that was passed down by their family lines, letting others know about them and spread the word. As they spread, stories are added upon and modified, becoming more and more popular as they grow.
Star Wars, of course, had one of the biggest impacts in the digital world. I remember watching Japanese cartoons when I was a kid and was always sick of seeing KFC sponsored Star Wars commercials with American kids fighting with light sabers and the same music playing in the back over and over again; it was THAT popular (and I never cared to watch any one of its movies even till now).
I would say that anime is also a good example that shows how much folk and pop cultures' collision in the digital world. Old Japanese stories made up for kids to help guide them on the right path and not do wrong turn into base story lines in now-a-day popular anime series and now since anime is wide-spread around the world, so many people know about those stories too.
There's a series of short story Japanese cartoons called "Nippon no Mukashibanashi" that are all based on the legends and sayings that have existed in Japan for centuries and they can all be found on Youtube for the world to see!
http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/Research/popularreviews.html
http://www.units.muohio.edu/psybersite/cyberspace/folklore/intro.shtml
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