POL369Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Thomas Hobbes
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Popular culture is harnessed for the purpose of political communication. Popular culture itself is a form of political comm: represent the political to us as an audience. Use politi(cid:272)al/go(cid:448)"t platfor(cid:373) as a platfor(cid:373) to tell a stor(cid:455) (cid:894)house of cards, West wing, etc. ) representing political has 4 common tropes. Conspiracy (represents politics as game skewed by people we (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t see(cid:895) Bureaucracy (sees politics as closed system, nobody is in charge a(cid:374)d rules take o(cid:448)er e(cid:448)er(cid:455)thi(cid:374)g the(cid:373)sel(cid:448)es (cid:862)red tape(cid:895) Soap opera (have a bunch of people plopped into political setting and is more about drama and relations between characters: revealing the political. Pop (cid:272)ulture that is(cid:374)"t e(cid:454)pli(cid:272)itl(cid:455) a(cid:271)out politi(cid:272)s, (cid:271)ut there are stro(cid:374)g political messages/values/norms embedded within. The walking dead interrogation of hobbesian philosophy: politically positioning the audience. Gateway effect if you see so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g (cid:455)ou did(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) (cid:271)efore, it (cid:272)a(cid:374) spark (cid:455)our interest and get you to raise your political awareness about that issue.
