John Street, Sanna Inthorn, Martin Scott

From entertainment to citizenship (eBook, ePUB)

Politics and popular culture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From entertainment to citizenship reveals how the young use shows like X-factor to comment on how power ought to be used, and how they respond to those pop stars - like Bono and Bob Geldof - who claim to represent them. It explores how young people connect the pleasures of popular culture to the world at large. For them, popular culture is not simply a matter of escapism and entertainment, but of engagement too.

The place of popular culture in politics, and its contribution to democratic life, has too often been misrepresented or misunderstood. This book provides the evidence and analysis that will help correct this misperception. It documents the voices of young people as they talk about popular culture (what they love as well as what they dislike), and as they reveal their thoughts about the world they inhabit. It will be of interest to those who study media and culture, and those who study politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526102966
• Artikelnr.: 48795784

Autorenporträt

John Street, Sanna Inthorn, Martin Scott

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Politics and popular culture 3. Citizenship and popular
culture 4. Researching young people, politics and popular culture 5. Points
of engagement: reading the politics within popular culture 6. Real power 7.
Young citizens and celebrity politicians 8. Altogether now: creating
collective identities 9. Playing with citizenship 10. Conclusion References