MIT’s Jeopardy champ talks strategy, memes — and becoming strangers’ media object.
Video and podcast: “The Turn to ‘Tween’: An Age Category and its Cultural Consequences”
How are “tweens” represented in popular culture? And how does this relatively new category deal with race, class, and gender identity?
The Turn to “Tween”: An Age Category and its Cultural Consequences
How are “tweens” represented in popular culture, including music, television, and YA literature? And how does this relatively new age category intersect with–or elide–issues pertaining to race, class, and gender identity?
Podcast: Thomas DeFrantz, “Queer Social Dance, Political Leadership, and Black Popular Culture”
Thomas DeFrantz “wonders at the intertwining of African American social dances and political leadership, conceived as the bodies of elected officials.”
The Dancing Body of the State: Queer Social Dance, Political Leadership, and Black Popular Culture
Thomas DeFranz “wonders at the intertwining of African American social dances and political leadership, conceived as the bodies of elected officials.”
CMS/W Studies Pro Wrestling: Former MIT Students Cut Their Promos on the Value of Studying Pop Culture
“It can be a great lens into human culture, social connection, and processes of meaning-making…but I feared the depth behind it could get lost in the process.”
Race and Representation after 9/11
What kind of popular culture is made in the context of war? How do notions of civil rights shift in a post-Civil Rights era?
