Cultural Citizenship and Popular Culture: The Art of Listening
Intro -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Democracy I -- Citizenship, popular culture and deep affective bonds to the world -- The structure of the book -- Part I: I hear you: Popular culture, audience research and appreciative inquiry. Key concepts -- 1. Identity: What cultural citizenship is and why studying it matters -- About identity -- Identity and popular culture -- Citizenship, feminism and affect -- Uses and drawbacks of citizenship as a concept -- (Cultural) citizenship as performance -- Note -- 2. Power: Popular culture as an object of study -- Losing sight of popular culture -- Uncritical celebration rather than critical reflection -- Institutionalization: from popular culture to audience research -- Governmentality. Foucault, again -- Affect -- From pleasure to power to affect and identity -- 3. Affect: Researching popular culture and cultural citizenship. Rewriting qualitative audience research -- Methodology as the gateway to better theory -- Reconstruct the affective and the discursive in everyday meaning making -- Moving beyond business as usual -- Principles for practice -- Part II: Decoding gender confusion: The litmus test of gender definitions in fearing the effects of popular culture. Three case studies -- 4. Culpability: Affective-discursive analysis. Understanding the hatred of television character Skyler White -- Celebrities: caught in the middle -- '/r/breakingbad' -- Savvy viewing -- Moral realism -- Holding Skyler to account: public shaming -- Affect and allegiance -- Celebrity gossip and the professional woman -- Cultural citizenship and Skyler's culpability -- 5. Innocence: Raising children to be media literate and fear of popular culture -- Concern -- Media education.