Analysing Politics and Protest in Digital Popular Culture

A Multimodal Introduction

Analysing Politics and Protest in Digital Popular Culture
Lyndon Way
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26 Jan 2021 UK
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9781526497956
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"Gives students the tools they need to uncover for themselves the hidden politics of today' s digital infotainment labyrinth. " - Theo van Leeuwen, University of Southern Denmark and University of New South Wales. We now increasingly encounter and do politics not through news or broadcast media, but when we scroll through social media feeds, open apps, compose and like posts, and comment on or share videos. This book explores how to analyse politics and protest in the places we experience it most in our everyday lives - on our phones, tablets and laptops. It provides a hands-on analytical toolkit, showing you how to critically analyse language, image, video and audio in a way that reveals the discourses, ideologies and power that run through digital popular culture. From the authoritarianism of Donald Trump, to the protests of Gezi Park, to the campaigns of Extinction Rebellion, to angst against Brexit, Lyndon Way shows you how to analyse the politics in digital everyday life across media including: Online commentsMemesGIFs and mash-upsMusic videosParodies and satire. It is an essential guide for students and researchers across media and communication, politics and discourse studies.
Fostering critical insight remains as important an educational goal as ever. This highly accessible and engaging book gives students the tools they need to uncover for themselves the hidden politics of today' s digital infotainment labyrinth. -- Theo van Leeuwen This is the methods book I have been waiting for! Way' s book provides the examples I need to connect to my students' lifeworld and interests: YouTube comments, memes, mash ups, music videos and parodies related to a wide range of political protests and issues. With each example, he builds a useful toolbox for conducting systematic, rigorous and transparent critical analysis of digital popular culture. . . This an accessible introduction to those unfamiliar with the field, but also a very useful starting point for those aiming to brush up on their knowledge of critical theory and methods. . . providing students with the means to analyze and tease out power and the political in the glittering world of popular culture. -- Katharina Kleinen-von Koenigsloew
Lyndon C. S. Way (MA, PhD) is a lecturer in Communications and Media within the Discourse and Society research cluster at the University of Liverpool. Previously, he has lectured at five universities in the UK, Canada, Cyprus and Turkey, including Liverpool Hope University, Izmir University of Economics, the European University of Lefke, the University of Windsor and Concordia University. He has also held a large number of positions as a newsroom, music and media practitioner.
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ISBN-13: 9781526497956
Published: 26 Jan 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: SAGE Publications
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Format: Paperback
Height: 242mm
Width: 170mm
Weight: 400g
Pages: 224

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