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Analysing Politics and Protest in Digital Popular Culture Lyndon Way

Analysing Politics and Protest in Digital Popular Culture By Lyndon Way

Analysing Politics and Protest in Digital Popular Culture by Lyndon Way


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Supporting you with varied pedagogy throughout, this engaging new book provides a foundational understanding of politics and protest before focusing on step-by-step instructions for carrying out analysis on your own. It includes up to date cases, such as analysis of memes about Brexit, Trump and even coronavirus, that cater for this quickly moving field.

Analysing Politics and Protest in Digital Popular Culture Summary

Analysing Politics and Protest in Digital Popular Culture: A Multimodal Introduction by Lyndon Way

"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 comments
  • Memes
  • GIFs and mash-ups
  • Music videos
  • Parodies and satire.

It is an essential guide for students and researchers across media and communication, politics and discourse studies.




Analysing Politics and Protest in Digital Popular Culture Reviews

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 for a very long time! 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, Way builds a useful toolbox for conducting systematic, rigorous and transparent critical analysis of digital popular culture.

His book is an accessible introduction to students 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 successfully analyze and tease out power relations and the political in the glittering world of popular culture. -- Katharina Kleinen-von Koenigsloew

About Lyndon Way

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.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction: Aims and key concepts Chapter 2: Politics in the popular: A variety of perspectives Chapter 3: Multimodal Critical Discourse Studies: Why this approach? How to do it? Chapter 4: Analyzing online comments Chapter 5: Analyzing memes Chapter 6: Analyzing animations and mash ups Chapter 7: Analyzing music videos Chapter 8: Analyzing parodies Chapter 9: Summary of our approach and findings

Additional information

GOR013612381
9781526497956
1526497956
Analysing Politics and Protest in Digital Popular Culture: A Multimodal Introduction by Lyndon Way
Used - Very Good
Paperback
SAGE Publications Ltd
2021-01-26
224
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