Birmingham class trip……

Trip to Birmingham.....  Today me and my group members travelled to Birmingham with the rest if our class mates for a research trip to help in preparing for our group manifesto. We had to decide which aspect of our cause we can usefully research during the research trip. we decided to research our destination and even …

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Week 2…

LECTURE: The (non) politics of celebrity A variety of celebrities are increasingly intervening in the public sphere and taking on the role of opinion leaders on weighty cultural and political matters. This lecture helped me explore possible ways of understanding what celebrity politics is and most importantly what we do with it. I first examined the contemporary …

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180MC……Putting theory into Practice

Today i started a new module called Putting theory into practice (180MC) In this introductory lecture i will apply key concepts and theories to contemporary digital media and cultural forms, and reflect critically and theoretically on how new and emerging forms of civic participation beyond traditional politics play out on and off-line. The key question for this …

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