Stylized Politics: Youth Movements and Critical Media Literacy
Biographical Sketch
Julie Webber is professor of Politics and Government at Illinois State University. She is the author of Failure to Hold: The Politics of School Violence, Beyond Columbine: School Violence and the Virtual and The Cultural Set Up of Comedy. She is also the editor of The Joke Is On Us: Political Comedy in (Late) Neoliberal Times, as well as the editor o the Politics and Comedy series at Lexington Books.
Type of Presentation
Individual presentation
Brief Description of Presentation
This paper examines "post" politics: post digital, subculture, and network strategies in order to apprehend how radical current youth movements can be in the US to effect change.
Abstract of Proposal
Contemporary protest movements characterized by generational factors take their inspiration from popular culture, not institutional norms or procedures (i.e. no one is storming barricades in front of the capitol and trending on social media at the same time). In a sense they are “post-everything” (network, modern, human, institution, etc.) not just because they come after these modern, critical terms but because the prefix “post” allows us to bracket the modern without speculating about a future (which is also a property of the modern, not the contemporary condition). Insights from Baudrillard will feature prominently in this chapter as well, especially his focus on telemorphosis and integral reality (Baudrillard) as a rationale for why futurity and progress narratives elude nascent generations.
Location
Session 2B (Summit, Double Tree)
Start Date
2-22-2019 1:20 PM
End Date
2-22-2019 2:50 PM
Recommended Citation
Webber, Julie, "Stylized Politics: Youth Movements and Critical Media Literacy" (2019). International Critical Media Literacy Conference. 11.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/criticalmedialiteracy/2019/2019/11
Stylized Politics: Youth Movements and Critical Media Literacy
Session 2B (Summit, Double Tree)
Contemporary protest movements characterized by generational factors take their inspiration from popular culture, not institutional norms or procedures (i.e. no one is storming barricades in front of the capitol and trending on social media at the same time). In a sense they are “post-everything” (network, modern, human, institution, etc.) not just because they come after these modern, critical terms but because the prefix “post” allows us to bracket the modern without speculating about a future (which is also a property of the modern, not the contemporary condition). Insights from Baudrillard will feature prominently in this chapter as well, especially his focus on telemorphosis and integral reality (Baudrillard) as a rationale for why futurity and progress narratives elude nascent generations.
