Tute Slides from Week 3

1. COMM2633
Popular Culture &
Everyday Life
Tutorial: Week 3

2. FROM THE READINGS
Why is identity
important?

4. EACH GROUP GETS ONE OF THE
FOLLOWING IDEOLOGIES:
FEMINISM
AUSTRALIAN LIBERAL PARTY
AUSTRALIAN LABOUR PARTY
CAPITALISM
ENVIRONMENTALISM

5. 1. What are the beliefs and values
associated with this ideology.
1. How does this ideology affect your life
and/or the lives of believers?
10 mins

6. Watch the following video looking out
for…
● Signs of Middle Eastern culture
● Signs taken from American hip hop

8. In groups, answer the following questions:
1. What signs of Middle Eastern culture are
displayed in the video? What do these signs
often signify to Western audiences?
2. What signs taken from American hip hop are
incorporated in the video?
3. What do these hip-hop signs signify?
4. What do you think the combination of these
signs implies?
5. Is M.I.A. guilty of Orientalism?
15 mins

9. CHANGE GROUPS
MOVE AROUND
INTRODUCE YOURSELVES

10. 1. Set-up a Google Doc for the group and invite everyone
in the group to it
2. Choose a piece of pop culture that the group all have
some interest in and then detail what ‘beliefs and
values’ are explored/displayed within that piece of pop
culture + WHAT SIGNS are used to display this stuff?
3. Put the answer -- in a concise form -- on a 2 Google
Slides:
a. An example of the pop culture (an excerpt)
b. Dot points about the ideology

12. RACIAL EQUALITY
= CASTING
UTOPIC / OPTIMISTIC
= STORY STRUCTURE, THEMES, TENOR/TONE
TECHNOLOGY POSITIVE
= SPECIAL EFFECTS, GENRE
COOPERATIVE
= ACTION, STORY
“POST-SCARCITY”/SOCIALISM = DIALOGUE,
STRUCTURE OF STAR FLEET