POLI 319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Baseball Field, Chinese Era Name
13 May 2018
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Pop Culture - February 8th
• Different people see different things from images depending on your geographical location, values,
profession = social construction
• What will the camera show when the father steps into his daughter’s room?
o Stereotypically: pink, dolls, tumblr lights, need to think of the social and cultural context
to consider what would be in the room
o Sources of information: Socially-constructed gender norms, inside sources lol, visual
representations in media
o Whatever choices he makes will perpetuate or challenge common beliefs
• Relationships between popular culture and politics
o States use of popular culture for propaganda
o Providing representations
o Impact on policy
o Blood Diamond
• Examples of how popular culture impacts politics
o Domination of issues pertaining to East Coast and West Coast urban settings in TV shows
(Friends, Law & Order, Will and Grace, Frasier, etc.)
o The impact of certain show narratives and topics on the criminal court system
o More variety today, but still mostly dominated by urban settings
• The media and popular culture participate in the US political process by
o Filtering the information available and providing representations of issues, events, and
evern personalities
o Shaping people's’ views and perceptions influencing their positions on various political
issues
o Providing anchor points for policy debates, sometimes through symbols
a. Democrats dominated the congress at a national level
2. [debatable ‘era system’] 1968: Shift in the South
. Nixon election
a. Civil rights movement; civil rights act; desegregation supported by D
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