Seminar: Why Popular Culture and Social Media Matter: An Introduction to Cultural Media Studies - Details

Seminar: Why Popular Culture and Social Media Matter: An Introduction to Cultural Media Studies - Details

General information

Course name Seminar: Why Popular Culture and Social Media Matter: An Introduction to Cultural Media Studies
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Semester SoSe 2025
Current number of participants 69
Home institute Institut für Anglistik
Courses type Seminar in category Teaching
First date Monday, 28.04.25, 14:00 - 16:00 o'clock Alter Steinbacher Weg 44, 103

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This series of interactive lectures demonstrates the centrality of popular culture and mass media to understanding the political present. We address topics such as how literary studies and philology came to embrace the analysis of phenomena relating to sports and fashion, as well as how media interpretation and theory have evolved into academic disciplines.
Central concepts and methods of cultural, media, and popular studies are introduced and illustrated through case studies about current political-cultural events. This analytical work leads to discussions of race, gender, sexuality, diversity, social hierarchies and how to decolonize knowledge.

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "Anmeldung mit Passwort: Why Popular Culture and Social Media Matter: An Introduction to Cultural Media Studies".
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