PopMeC research blog The US Representation in Popular Media and Culture
Author: Hatice Bay Cappadocia University Download PDF version INTRODUCTION Popular media has a great impact on the way science, scientists, and their works are represented. Typically, STEM fields and geek culture are considered to be White and male-oriented domains. As...
Author: Sotiris Petridis Hellenic Open University Download PDF version INTRODUCTION Since cinema usually narrates its stories through the camera, the structure of a typical film is in third person. Although cinema has a third-person narrative, there are some elements that...
Our book recommendation for this month is Brit Bennet’s The Vanishing Half. Through the pages of the book, we travel to Mallard (Louisiana), a small village impossible to find on the maps, with an extremely peculiar trait. In fact, Mallard’s...
Author: Lizbette Ocasio-Russe Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi Download PDF version While the United States has come a long way since lawful slavery and colonial conquest, it’s no secret there are still hierarchical power structures that benefit some and...
Author: Mansi Garneni Columbia University Download PDF version “Made a mil’ off that, uh/ Off that mumblin’ shit.” – Playboi Carti, “R.I.P.” INTRODUCTION: THE QUESTION OF MUMBLE RAP Mumble rap is a polarizing topic within the rap community...
Author: Shawn Driscoll University of Massachusetts – Lowell Download PDF version Television shows provide a never-ending cycle of heroes and villains. The symbiotic relation between these two sides becomes both necessary and at times frustrating. Necessary for the connection...
Download PDF version “If someday a tourist notices, among the ruins of New York City, a copy of Leaves of Grass, and stops and picks it up and reads some lines in it, she will be able to say...
Author: Sreepurna Datta Jadavpur University Download PDF version In his 1993 book American Political Cultures, Richard Ellis identified “voting in competitive elections, representative government, accountable leadership, and the freedom to pursue one’s own private interests,” as the key features...
Author: Elizabeth Laughlin Indiana University of Pennsylvania Download PDF version Taylor Swift’s Red (Taylor’s Version) feels like revisiting an old memory. Those who appreciated the 2012 version of Red will especially love this one, which is revised and features...
Author: Raja Ambika The English and Foreign Languages University (Hyderabad, India) Download PDF version Based on the complaints of two female correspondents, Richard Steele, in “Letter 155” written for The Spectator (2012), brings readers’ attention to the fact that...
Download PDF version “For the writers of my generation, literary influences are longer the only thing that we base our books on. There are other platforms, like TV series, comics, etc. In my case, music is one of the principal...