Analysing Politics, Protest, and Digital Popular Culture

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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 analysing 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 critically analyse this discourse themselves, via a multimodal approach. 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. If ordering his book from SAGE, use the code MSPACEQ323 for a 20% discount through September 2023.

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Decolonization, Technology, and Online Research
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Donna Mertens, Indigenous Methods, transformative methods, culturally responsive methods, Q1-24, March 2024
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Methods Film Fest: Researchers Share Insights
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Crossroads, Careers, academic work, Q1-24, January 2024
The Importance of Being Disruptive: On Decolonising Creative Research Methods
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Q4, December 2023, Decolonization, Caroline Lenette, Helen Kara, CRM Conference

Caroline Lenette offered a keynote address at the International Creative Research Methods conference, September 2023. See the address and learn about the 2024 conference here.

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Part One: The Need for Equity Approaches in Quantitative Analysis
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Interview: Speech in the Machine: Generative AI’s Implications for Free Expression
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Interview: Who Is Going to Make Money from Artificial Intelligence in Scholarly Communications?
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This must-read article in The Scholarly Kitchen caught my attention: “Who Is Going to Make Money from Artificial Intelligence in Scholarly Communications?” See this thought-provoking interview with the author, Joseph Esposito.

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Digital Inequalities and the Online Researcher
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