POL369Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Justin Bieber
18 Nov 2016
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Popular culture is used as a harness of politics popular culture itself is a form of political communication. The most obvious way the popular culture can be represented as political communication is by representing the audience. It is politics, how they present politics to us. Explicitly or politically set in a governmental setting: the quest-protagonists have a goal to achieve, conspiracy-it represents politics as a huge game, bureaucracy-politics as a closed system, nobody is in charge rules taken over themselves. Soap opera-drama of personal interactions west wings, american president. We are watching it for entertainment for the most part. Implicit, subversive it"s reviewing the political, there are shows that are explicitly political but great political views are presented. Different forms of communications and how they can affect us. Any form of popular culture could consume some kind of political concept. It is not only politicians or parties does.
