The programme focuses on key theories, policies, and events in world politics in relation to both traditional and new media.
World Politics and Popular Culture is a distinctive interdisciplinary degree programme that examines the changing dynamics of contemporary international relations in the context of the politics of the various forces shaping and shaped by popular culture. You will learn not only how to think critically about how world politics is reflected or reproduced in popular culture, but also how the politics
31/07/2019
https://www.cap-a-pie.co.uk/dr-matt-davis-on-his-experience-of-rio-and-his-research/
Dr Matt Davis on his experience of Rio and his research – Cap-a-Pie Dr Matt Davies worked with Cap-a-Pie to create a new audio show The Other City. Rio has famously, though misleadingly,...
Popular Culture! https://youtu.be/-mmnYlbc_dE
01/12/2017
26/11/2017
There are a lot of good examples of skilled pop culture analysis on YouTube -- this one explores intertextuality.
Stranger Things And Intertextuality (A Response To The Nerdwriter) For 10% off your first purchase, go to http://www.squarespace.com/justwrite Support this channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/justwrite Stranger Thing...
07/10/2017
How Germany’s far right took over Twitter – and tilted the election | Julia Ebner A sophisticated and tightly organised troll army has spent the last three months championing a ‘patriotic revolution’, writes Julia Ebner of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue
07/10/2017
Designing a dictatorship: North Korean graphics – in pictures A new Phaidon book by Nicholas Bonner offers new insight into the isolated society’s visual culture
20/09/2017
What does an African superhero look like? This month, Marvel debuts its first ever Nigerian superhero, Ngozi. The 8-page comic, called “Blessing in Disguise”, is written by award-wining science ficti...
Cultural Resistance, 9/11, and the War on Terror: Sensible Interventions (Hardback) - Routledge Cultural Resistance, 9/11, and the War on Terror: Sensible Interventions offers a fresh account of the enduring cultural legacies of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks and the global war on terror through the critical lens of cultural resistance. It…
30/08/2017
The programme is now available and registration is open. Come to Newcastle!
Popular Culture and World Politics v. 10: Beyond Boundaries (#PCWP10) 23-25 November, 2017
30/08/2017
Taylor Swift isn’t the first snake woman. She’s fighting misogyny’s favourite myth | Brian O’Flynn Like predecessors from Eve to Hillary Clinton, the star fell foul of an ancient narrative that discredits women, says freelance writer Brian O’Flynn
10/08/2017
https://medium.com//sadly-m-i-a-s-pop-stardom-and-the-age-of-obama-didn-t-live-forever-8432e5dd5a89
Sadly, M.I.A.’s Pop Stardom and The Age Of Obama Didn’t Live Forever
02/08/2017
Sacré bleu! Why Franco-Belgian comic-book movies are more fun than Marvel and DC Home-grown superheroes may rule over Hollywood, but French and Belgian comic-book adaptations are often stranger and sexier than their US counterparts