Subculture and Fandom
09.09.2010 | No Comments ››Subculture & Fandom Fandom doesn’t always apply to the geographical area Invariably means a description of age Not specifically talking about a collective appreciation of followings or forms, ...
What is Facebook?
09.02.2010 | No Comments ››Facebook has significant utilitarian and emotional functions. As a genre, Facebook provides an essential service that is important to many individuals. Particularly, one if its ...
Fan, Fan Theory and Contemporary Culture
08.17.2010 | 1 Comment ››The idea of “fan” arose from John Fiske’s (1989) analysis of popular culture containing polysemic text. Polysemic literally means ‘many-signed’, an image in which there ...
Popular Narrative Readings
08.14.2010 | 2 Comments ››Pierre Macherey, “A Theory of Literary Production” (textbook) The book proposes nothing less than a new way of reading, which, for Macherey, is not about the ...
Ethnic Identities vs. Contemporary Popular Culture
07.12.2010 | 2 Comments ››Ethnic identities are interestingly and slowly being undermined by popular culture forms. This happens in two ways:1) newer generations being exposed to changing modes ...
The Frankfurt School
04.27.2010 | No Comments ››Frankfurt School initially founded in 1966, home base was “The Institute of Social Research @ the University of Frankfurt) Founded in the wake of the successful soviet ...
