GOVT1661 Study Guide - Final Guide: Fusion Of Powers, Heterosexism, Late Modernity

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Government and International Relations
• Course: GOVT1661
• Professor: Colin Wight

Document Summary

"consider the manifest political consequences of adopting one mode of representation over another: process of meaning, production and reproduction. 6 dimensions of popular culture: perspective and opinions are greatly shaped by reception of media, popular culture artefacts are meaning-making practice, when you can"t ignore the connections, methods, knowing, the politics of knowing production. "polls show that the american public draws some, and even a lot, of information about politics from late-night comedy and perhaps the white. House from the west wing" (sorkin 2000: people learn via stories, making media an ideal means of communicating serious, complex and alienating political ideas, directors have a responsibility in directing the understanding and political opinions of the public. Intertextuality is inevitable, as texts are never read in isolation, but rather in a relationship with others: high politics cannot be comprehended through an exclusive focus on high data. Rather, low data is essential to understanding globalisation, politics and the social world.