Analysing Politics and Protest in Digital Popular Culture

Lyndon C.S. Way (MA, PhD) is a lecturer in Communications and Media within the Discourse and Society research cluster at the University of Liverpool. Previously, he has lectured at five universities in the UK, Canada, Cyprus and Turkey, including Liverpool Hope University, Izmir University of Economics, the European University of Lefke, the University of Windsor and Concordia University. He has also held a large number of positions as a newsroom, music and media practitioner.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Aims and key conceptsChapter 2: Politics in the popular: A variety of perspectivesChapter 3: Multimodal Critical Discourse Studies: Why this approach? How to do it?Chapter 4: Analyzing online commentsChapter 5: Analyzing memesChapter 6: Analyzing animations and mash upsChapter 7: Analyzing music videosChapter 8: Analyzing parodiesChapter 9: Summary of our approach and findings

Fostering critical insight remains as important an educational goal as ever. This highly accessible and engaging book gives students the tools they need to uncover for themselves the hidden politics of today′s digital infotainment labyrinth.