POL369Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: David Swanson, Political Satire
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Article: popular culture and political communication by john street. Many elections have used popular culture as a way to politically communicate, ie obama. Author states that popular culture has always been a part of political communication, but what has changed is the understanding and approach to the relationship between the two. Some say that the link harms democracy and has negative effects on disengaged citizens. Ie in the uk, they increased their advertising, even after government kept power: popular culture is also used outside of government to gain power. Ie ngo(cid:859)s like a(cid:373)(cid:374)est(cid:455) a(cid:374)d gree(cid:374)pea(cid:272)e use (cid:272)ele(cid:271)rities for ad(cid:448)ertise(cid:373)e(cid:374)t. Explaining the use of poular culture for political communication: explanation 1: popular culture has become a trend in political communication, so others imitate this trend. Does(cid:374)(cid:859)t e(cid:454)plai(cid:374) (cid:449)h(cid:455) it (cid:449)as started: explanation 2: david swanson and paolo manini said that popular culture in politics emerged based on the collapse of traditional institutions of political communication.
