Analysing Politics and Protest in Digital Popular Culture

Lyndon C.S. Way (MA, PhD) is a lecturer in Communications and Media within the Discourse and Society research cluster at the University of Liverpool. Previously, he has lectured at five universities in the UK, Canada, Cyprus and Turkey, including Liverpool Hope University, Izmir University of Economics, the European University of Lefke, the University of Windsor and Concordia University. He has also held a large number of positions as a newsroom, music and media practitioner.

Chapter 1: Introduction: Aims and key concepts
Chapter 2: Politics in the popular: A variety of perspectives
Chapter 3: Multimodal Critical Discourse Studies: Why this approach? How to do it?
Chapter 4: Analyzing online comments
Chapter 5: Analyzing memes
Chapter 6: Analyzing animations and mash ups
Chapter 7: Analyzing music videos
Chapter 8: Analyzing parodies
Chapter 9: Summary of our approach and findings