Popular Culture, Social Media, and the Politics of Identity

Auteur

William Clapton is Associate Professor of International Relations in the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

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This book advances a novel methodological approach - pop culture as political object - to capture the centrality of popular culture as an object of a broad range of political contests and debates that constitute pop culture artefacts by generating and informing specific meanings and understandings of them.

Résumé
This book advances a novel methodological approach pop culture as political object to capture the centrality of popular culture as an object of a broad range of political contests and debates that constitute pop culture artefacts by generating and informing specific meanings and understandings of them.

Contenu

1. Introduction 2. Audiences and Everyday Politics: Popular Culture as Political Object 3. Digital Technologies, Social Justice Activism, and Identity Politics 4. Gamergate, (Anti)Feminism, and the Horizon Series 5. 'Who You Gonna Call? Not Women': The 2016 Ghostbusters Reboot 6. Social Justice Activism in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: Controversies of The Last Jed 7. 'Elves and Hobbits Don't Look Like That': Racial Diversity, White Fragility, and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power 8. Conclusion References