POL 3113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lester Holt, Content Analysis, Corporate Capitalism
26 Jul 2018
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Seeing a shift in attitudes: bannon and kushner, reality tv, trump and lester holt. Something very new in political culture: not just used to promote information. Cultural governing structures. i. e. graffiti art in ottawa. Pop culture: the entirety of ideas, perspectives, attitudes, images, and other phenomena that are within the mainstream of a given culture. Newer forms: blogs, websites, comix/anime, video games. University of ottawa: race/ethnicity, class, gender, censorship. Textual analysis approaches often view culture as a narrative or story-telling process in which particular. "texts" or "cultural artifacts" (i. e. a pop song or tv program) consciously or unconsciously link themselves to larger stories at play in society. Instituted laws that require representation of black americans. Observing and analyzing changes over time is essential to understanding why a contemporary text is the way it is. We cannot understand our present w/o understanding our past. And we cannot fully imagine change w/o a sense of how our culture has changed over time.
