[Commlist] New book: Analysing Politics and Protest in Digital Popular Culture: A multimodal approach

New monograph
‘Analysing Politics and Protest in Digital Popular Culture: A multimodal 
approach'. London: Sage (2021).

It is a real practice ‘how to do it’ with loads of current case studies, 
inspired by trying to teach this in my modules.

Here is a blurb for the book:

“Gives students the tools they need to uncover for themselves the hidden 
politics of today’s digital infotainment labyrinth.” /Theo van Leeuwen, 
University of Southern Denmark and University of New South Wales**/

We now increasingly /encounter /and /do /politics not through news or 
broadcast media, but when we scroll through social media feeds, open 
apps, compose and like posts, and comment on or share videos. *//*

This book explores how to analyse politics and protest in the places we 
experience it most in our everyday lives – on our phones, tablets and 
laptops.

It provides a hands-on analytical toolkit, showing you how to critically 
analyse language, image, video and audio in a way that reveals the 
discourses, ideologies and power that run through digital popular culture.

 From the authoritarianism of Donald Trump, to the protests of Gezi 
Park, to the campaigns of Extinction Rebellion, Lyndon Way shows you how 
to analyse the politics in digital everyday life across media like:

  * Online comments
  * Memes
  * GIFs and mash-ups
  * Music videos
  * Parodies and satire.

It is an essential guide for students and researchers across media and 
communication, politics and discourse studies.

Here is a link to the Google preview tab of the book’s page on the Sage 
site: 
https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/analysing-politics-and-protest-in-digital-popular-culture/book268813#preview 
<https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/analysing-politics-and-protest-in-digital-popular-culture/book268813#preview>. 


If you want an inspection/teaching copy, you can email 
(Lyndon.way /at/ liverpool.ac.uk) <mailto:(Lyndon.way /at/ liverpool.ac.uk)> or 
contact Sage directly.


Here is the table of contents:


Contents

List of Figures………………………………………………………………………………..4

Acknowledgements………………………………………………………………………….7

Preface………………………………………………………………………………………..8

1 Introduction: Aims and key concepts……………………………………………………9

2 Politics in the popular: A variety of perspectives……………………………………..24

3 Multimodal Critical Discourse Studies: Why this approach? How to do 
it?.............59

4 Analyzing Online Comments ………...…………………………………………...……89

5 Analyzing Memes …...…………………………………………………………………120

6 Analyzing Animations and Mash Ups .……………………………..………………..150

7 Analyzing Music Videos ……………..………………….…………………………….181

8 Analyzing Parodies ……...…………………………………………………………….214

9 Summary of our approach and findings…………………………………………..….244

Notes………………………………………………………………………………………

References………………………………………………………………………………..255

Index……………………………………………………………………………………….302


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