Series Co-Editors:
- Dr. Andrew F. Herrmann, East Tennessee State University
- Dr. Art Herbig, Indiana University-Purdue University, Ft. Wayne
From music, video games, movies, theatre, dance, cinematic universes, comic books, books and book series, television et al, popular culture continues to be a ubiquitous component of our lives. The Communication Perspectives on Popular Culture book series offers
an opportunity for original research that explores the mutable contexts and emerging potentials and pitfalls of popular culture examined through a communicative lens.
For the editors of the series, three terms in particular speak to us:
- Innovative
- Critical
- Cultural
The development of innovative theoretical frameworks and critical research positions, including mindfulness/meditation, critical discourse analysis, ethnography, performance ethnography, and autoethnography, instersectionality, post-colonialism, narrative,
queer and quare studies, critical race theory, feminisms and masculinities, polymedia, processual rhetoric et al provides scholars a multitude of ways by which to examine and critique power (of, over, through, with) popular culture and popular culture artifacts.
The cultural component derives from communities and participation with them. From beer culture to fandom conventions, to festivals, to music and music scenes, to sites on the web, to organizational portrayals, etc. there is an obvious cultural component to
the study of the popular, communication, and identity.
This series is aimed at upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and academics, appealing to scholars from a range of academic fields including communication studies, media studies, mass communication, sociology, psychology, cultural studies, and the
overall broader interdisciplinary fields of social sciences, arts and humanities.
For more about the current books in the series:
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