Video Interview: Lyndon Wray on ‘Analysing Politics & Protest & Digital Popular Culture’
Lyndon Wray is interested in ways to study contemporary problems and activism in the digital sphere. His book, Analysing Politics & Protest & Digital Popular Culture offers:
A toolkit for analyzing politics and activism in today’s digital media landscape, this engaging and practical resource helps students to understand how politics and protest are entwined with online popular culture, before providing a step-by-step guide in how to use a multimodal approach to critically analyze this discourse themselves. It includes a well-rounded multimodal approach for analysis from all angles– from comments to images, video, audio and GIFs and a range of engaging cases and examples: YouTube comments, memes, viral animations, mvideos, fan-made parodies and mash-ups — often referring to Brexit or Donald Trump’s presidency.
Hear Dr. Wray discuss these approaches in this video interview.
