ISBN:
9780739183892
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (201 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Parasocial Politics : Audiences, Pop Culture, and Politics
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Popular culture - Political aspects
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Explores how consumers form complex relationships with media texts and characters, and how these readings exist in the nexus between real and fictional worlds. This collection of empirical studies uses various methodologies, including surveys, experiments, focus groups, and mixed methods, to analyze how actual consumers interpret the texts and the overt and covert political messages encoded in popular culture.--Provided by publisher
Abstract:
〈span〉〈span style=""font-style:italic;""〉Parasocial Politics〈/span〉〈span〉 explores how consumers form complex relationships with media texts and characters, and how these readings exist in the nexus between the real and fictional worlds. This collection of empirical studies analyzes how actual consumers read the text and the overt and covert political messages encoded in popular culture.〈/span〉〈/span〉
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Introduction; I: Entertainment, Celebrity, and Institutions; 1 Reading the President; 2 Studying Audience Subjectivity; 3 The Wire and Urban Life; 4 Celebrity Persuasion in the Political Arena; II: Fandom, Fantasy, and Real Politics; 5 Storytelling through World-Building; 6 Are You a Lebowski Achiever?; 7 The Dark Knight of the Soul; III: Millenials, Diversity, and Entertainment; 8 Millennials, Citizenship, and How I Met Your Mother; 9 Talking Racial Politics Online; 10 "Nigga You Gay"; Bibliography; Index; About the Contributors; About the Editor
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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