Rich Kids of Instagram - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rich Kids of Instagram write by The Creator of Rich Kids of Instagram. This book was released on 2014-07-08. Rich Kids of Instagram available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Based on the blog 'Rich Kids of Instagram' this is a hilarious novel about the intersecting lives of the world's most extravagant teenagers
Poetics of Politics
Poetics of Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poetics of Politics write by Sebastian M. Herrmann. This book was released on 2015-04-22. Poetics of Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume proposes the ‘poetics of politics’ as an analytic angle to interrogate contemporary cultural production in the United States. As recent scholarship has observed, American literature and culture around the turn of the millennium, while still deeply informed by the textual self-consciousness of postmodernism, are marked by a rekindled interest in matters of social concern. This revived interest in politics is frequently read as a ‘grand epochal transition.’ Sidestepping such a logic of periodization, this book points to the interplay between the textual and the political as a dynamic – always locally specific – that affords unique insights into the characteristics of the contemporary moment. The sixteen case studies in this book explore this interplay across a wide range of media, genres, and modes. Together, they make visible a broad cultural concern with negotiating social relevance and textual self-awareness that permeates and structures contemporary US (popular) culture.
Internet Celebrity
Internet Celebrity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Internet Celebrity write by Crystal Abidin. This book was released on 2018-07-16. Internet Celebrity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents a framework for thinking about different forms of internet celebrity that have emerged in the last decade. Through cross-cultural case studies, the book offers a brief history of internet celebrity; analysis on recent developments in the industry; and commentary on emergent trends.
The Privileged Poor
The Privileged Poor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Privileged Poor write by Anthony Abraham Jack. This book was released on 2019-03-01. The Privileged Poor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An NPR Favorite Book of the Year “Breaks new ground on social and educational questions of great import.” —Washington Post “An essential work, humane and candid, that challenges and expands our understanding of the lives of contemporary college students.” —Paul Tough, author of Helping Children Succeed “Eye-opening...Brings home the pain and reality of on-campus poverty and puts the blame squarely on elite institutions.” —Washington Post “Jack’s investigation redirects attention from the matter of access to the matter of inclusion...His book challenges universities to support the diversity they indulge in advertising.” —New Yorker The Ivy League looks different than it used to. College presidents and deans of admission have opened their doors—and their coffers—to support a more diverse student body. But is it enough just to admit these students? In this bracing exposé, Anthony Jack shows that many students’ struggles continue long after they’ve settled in their dorms. Admission, they quickly learn, is not the same as acceptance. This powerfully argued book documents how university policies and campus culture can exacerbate preexisting inequalities and reveals why some students are harder hit than others.
Against Meritocracy
Against Meritocracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Against Meritocracy write by Jo Littler. This book was released on 2017-08-16. Against Meritocracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Meritocracy today involves the idea that whatever your social position at birth, society ought to offer enough opportunity and mobility for ‘talent’ to combine with ‘effort’ in order to ‘rise to the top’. This idea is one of the most prevalent social and cultural tropes of our time, as palpable in the speeches of politicians as in popular culture. In this book Jo Littler argues that meritocracy is the key cultural means of legitimation for contemporary neoliberal culture – and that whilst it promises opportunity, it in fact creates new forms of social division. Against Meritocracy is split into two parts. Part I explores the genealogies of meritocracy within social theory, political discourse and working cultures. It traces the dramatic U-turn in meritocracy’s meaning, from socialist slur to a contemporary ideal of how a society should be organised. Part II uses a series of case studies to analyse the cultural pull of popular ‘parables of progress’, from reality TV to the super-rich and celebrity CEOs, from social media controversies to the rise of the ‘mumpreneur’. Paying special attention to the role of gender, ‘race’ and class, this book provides new conceptualisations of the meaning of meritocracy in contemporary culture and society.
