CMNS 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: E-Democracy, Lower Mainland, High Culture
30 Nov 2016
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Popular culture as trash and ephemera: easily forgettable, reality tv, video games, the time suck of the internet. Privilege celebrated in celebrities like the royal family: will and kate. Went to the dtes and visited aboriginal communities. Challenge to the standards of high culture: popular culture, mass culture is the opposite of high culture. You can sell dumb shit to masses. Read the guardian online: canadians and uk citizens understanding the problematic election more than americans do, we are steeped in canadian history. Canadians can be smug when we look at the election but we still come from a fucked up place too. We are going to take this to the people: populism, example in vancouver. Development of lower mainland depended on this. Is there merit: took transit to the people, nobody understood it so nobody did anything (nobody voted, we"re goi(cid:374)g to (cid:862)take it to the people(cid:863, voting on aboriginal rights by taking it to referendum.
