Cultural Citizenship and Popular Culture: The Art of Listening

Contents

• Introduction. DEMOCRACY I
• Part I . I hear you. Popular culture, audience research and appreciative inquiry. Key concepts.
• 1. IDENTITY: What cultural citizenship is and why studying it matters
• 2. POWER: Popular culture as an object of study With Jan Teurlings
• 3. AFFECT: Researching popular culture and cultural citizenship. Rewriting qualitative audience research
• Part II . Keeping myself from moralising. On the litmus test of gender definitions in fearing the effects of popular culture. Three case studies
• 4. CULPABILITY: Affective-discursive analysis. Understanding the hatred of television character Skyler White With Leonie Stoete (based on Hermes & Stoete 2019)
• 5. INNOCENCE: Parents talking about what popular culture might do to their children With Sarieke Hoeksma
• 6. CONFUSION: When the future (briefly) became female. Viewers discussing a woman being cast as Doctor Who With Sophie Eeken (based on Eeken & Hermes 2021)
• Part III . Listening with generosity. Another three case studies that take a broader intersectional approach and a conclusion.
• 7. PATRIARCHY: Good guys (or not). Feminism, auto-ethnography and the Mentalist
• 8. RESPONSIBILITY: Content analysis with the help of fan-viewers: sorting through the appeal of a decade of RuPaul's Drag Race With Michael Kardolus (based on Hermes & Kardolus 2022)
• 9. STORYTELLING: Meanwhile in the real world: popular culture and cultural citizenship politicize online on social media platforms
• Conclusion DEMOCRACY II: (Searching for) cultural citizenship as (attending to) worldbuilding in action.