Reception games of Dušan Taragel (the non-actor) by Peter Darovec

“…This period also saw a shift in readers’ genre preferences toward popular culture. The article analyses the forms of literary games with genres on the works of contemporary Slovak prose writer Dušan Taragel (1961), drawing on texts spanning his entire oeuvre from his debut book Rozprávky pre neposlušné deti a ich starostlivých rodičov (Stories for naughty children and their caring parents, 1997) to his latest novel Mafiánske balady (Mafia Ballads, 2022). …”
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“I just want to be the friendly face of national socialism” by Askanius Tina

“…Theoretically, I turn to cultural perspectives on violent extremism to bring to centre stage the role of popular culture and entertainment in the construction of a meaningful narrative of community and belonging built around neo-Nazism in Sweden today. …”
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Trabalho cultural no Recôncavo da Bahia: uma abordagem a partir da organização das classes criativas by Mariella Pitombo, Frederico Barbosa, Amanda Botelho

“…Moreover, the indicators have restrictions because they do not capture amateur or nonformal activities - a defining feature of the cultural dynamics of the Recôncavo, strongly shaped by expressions of popular culture. In this sense, the economic dynamism mobilized by cultural production in the region may be even more significant than the data reveal, given the limits of quantitative methods.…”
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Nourrir les morts ou « Celui qui fait vivre », les différents régimes de commensalité rituelle chez les Mixe (Oaxaca, Mexique) by Perig Pitrou

“…The public and private celebrations that take place in Mexico in connection with the Day of the Dead (Día de Muertos), as well as the many representations of death in the form of the Catrina and skeletons, are part of a popular culture that extends well beyond the country’s borders. …”
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Places and Cultures of Capitalism: Histories from the Grassroots by Elsa Devienne, Andrew Diamond

“…Over the past decade or so, the concept of capitalism has exploded within the domains of popular culture and mainstream political discourse in the United States, a phenomenon driven forward by the visibility of anticapitalist movements like Occupy Wall Street, the appearance of bestselling books like Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century and blockbuster movies like The Big Short, and the meteoric rise of nationally prominent democratic socialist politicians like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. …”
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AMERICAN POLONIA’S RESOURCES OF IFLUENCE AND US FOREIGN POLICY by I. D. Loshkariov

“…The second narrative is a reproduction of widespread stereotypes about Poles, including in the popular culture. Thus, institutions of the American Polonia face several tasks. …”
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The Reserve of Poetry by Geneviève Cohen-Cheminet

“…My point is not so much to unearth an Americana collectible that would express American popular culture in the 1920s but to give a measure of insight into the reserved violence of Lorine Niedecker’s aesthetic gesture.…”
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Reframing the filter bubble through diverse scale effects in online music consumption by Dougal Shakespeare, Victor Chareyron, Camille Roth

“…Abstract The impact of platforms’ algorithmic curation devices on users’ consumption diversity has long since been the subject of debate in popular culture and academia alike. In recent years, methods to concretely appraise this debate have taken a comparative turn, with emerging research strands seeking to assess the influence of algorithmic recommendations relative to users’ organic behaviour (i.e. those with a relative lack of algorithmic influence). …”
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RELIGIOUS COMMUNICATION IN THE CONTEXT OF CULTURE MEDIA by Maria S. Petrushkevych

“…Features of media culture that connect it with popular culture and are more likely to influence contemporary religious communication are such: visualization, technicality, handling large amounts of information, the creation of a specific picture of the world. …”
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RELIGIOUS COMMUNICATION IN THE CONTEXT OF CULTURE MEDIA by Maria S. Petrushkevych

“…Features of media culture that connect it with popular culture and are more likely to influence contemporary religious communication are such: visualization, technicality, handling large amounts of information, the creation of a specific picture of the world. …”
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Freedom of expression, aspiration and gender: A cultuling in the student demonstration by Siti Nurbayani, Elly Malihah, Millary Agung Widiawaty, Moh. Dede, Bayu Iqbal Anshari, Asep Mahpudz, Erry Sukriah, Sri Wahyuni

“…The demonstration slogans incorporated humor, sarcasm, and references to popular culture. Slogans were often written in all caps, including social media hashtags. …”
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Cross-Gendering the Racial Memory by Marlon B. Ross

“…Lacking the economic resources for such a luxury of patriarchal imagination, black nationalist practice most frequently resorts to more figurative embodiments of the gigantic feminine in art, poetry, song, and dance.Gaines’s gigantic female who voices and embodies black American epochal and epical history, Miss Jane Pittman, is cast as novel and film (1974) at the height of the black nationalist moment, when metaphorical she/males emblematizing the masculine heroism of black nation-building are proliferating all over the place in black popular culture. This paper analyzes Miss Jane Pittman in this historical context of the black nationalist gigantic female icon. …”
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CONTRIBUTORS by Prof Ronit Frenkel

“…Ronit Frenkel, as the incoming editor, plans on maintaining the panAfrican scope of the journal while increasing its coverage into fields such as books, art, literature and popular cultures. …”
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Contributing Authors by Ronit Frenkel

“…Ronit Frenkel, as the incoming editor, plans on maintaining the pan-African scope of the journal while increasing its coverage into fields such as books, art, literature and popular cultures. The Thinker is a ‘hybrid’ journal, publishing both journalistic pieces with more academic articles and contributors can now opt to have their submissions peer reviewed. …”
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Contributors to this edition by Ronit Frenkel

“…Ronit Frenkel, as the incoming editor, plans on maintaining the pan-African scope of the journal while increasing its coverage into fields such as books, art, literature and popular cultures. The Thinker is a ‘hybrid’ journal, publishing both journalistic pieces with more academic articles and contributors can now opt to have their submissions peer reviewed. …”
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Contributors to the Edition by Prof Ronit Frenkel

“…Ronit Frenkel, as the incoming editor, plans on maintaining the pan-African scope of the journal while increasing its coverage into fields such as books, art, literature and popular cultures. The Thinker is a ‘hybrid’ journal, publishing both journalistic pieces with more academic articles and contributors can now opt to have their submissions peer reviewed. …”
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Contributors to this edition by Ronit Frenkel

“…Ronit Frenkel, as the incoming editor, plans on maintaining the pan-African scope of the journal while increasing its coverage into fields such as books, art, literature and popular cultures. The Thinker is a ‘hybrid’ journal, publishing both journalistic pieces with more academic articles and contributors can now opt to have their submissions peer reviewed. …”
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CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS EDITION by Prof Ronit Frenkel

“…Ronit Frenkel, as the incoming editor, plans on maintaining the pan-Af rican scope of the journal while increasing its coverage into fields such as books, art, literature and popular cultures. The Thinker is a ‘hybrid’ journal, publishing both journalistic pieces with more academic articles and contributors can now opt to have their submissions peer reviewed. …”
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Une chambre à soi : genres et corps en art by Luc Schicharin, Anne-Laure Vernet

“…During the course of 2 symposium respectively called « Genderqueer Workshop : a Reflexion on Contemporary Bodies through the Arts », and « A Room to One’s Own : Genders and Bodies in Art » held from March 2015 to January 2016, the problematic of political subjectivity has been approached through an aestethical and philosophical study of works of art which are organized according to the codes of contemporary art and of militant artistic practices coming from subcultures and popular cultures. Thanks to the interdisciplinarity of the many lecturers, all coming from an international network, the diversity in epistemological analytic context, methodology and analysis, allowed an approach both sharp and renewed of the problematic of the contemporary bodies in art. …”
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Digital Games as Safe Places: The Case of Animal Crossing by Ferreira Cátia, Ganito Carla, Gonçalves Soraia

“…Digital games have become a popular cultural pastime and a profitable media industry, with an average player age of 32. …”
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