Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy (ISSN 2378-2323 print, ISSN 2378-2331 online) is the first open access, peer-reviewed journal focused on the intersection of popular culture and ...
NUGSE Research in Education is created by Master’s and PhD students and alumni of the Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Education. Each issue may also include reflections and commentary from the editors regarding ...
Gethins, Marie(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2020)
Nineteenth and early twentieth-century children’s literature frequently depicts characters with disabilities as flat stereotypes — villains or saintly invalids. L. Frank Baum’s The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918) provides a sharp ...
Leonard, Kristin(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2020)
In Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style, Virginia Tuft illustrates how grammar, word choice, and syntax strategies help to generate the perfect juxtaposition of words and punctuation that will make each sentence pop (Clark). ...
Guglielmi, Luc(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2020)
In Basile, a small community in Southwest Louisiana, there would not be any Mardi Gras without Ash Wednesday and vice-versa. Most of the people in Basile speak of Ash Wednesday when defining the Mardi Gras as there is a ...
Oliver, Graham(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2020)
Choices made during video game gameplay set the stories told in that media apart from other media. Narrative-affecting choices have existed since the earliest games, from character creation in role-playing games to ...
Eaton, Lance; Rockey, Alex(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2020)
Teaching popular culture comes with many opportunities and challenges in a traditional classroom, but equally interesting and valuable are the possibilities that teaching such a course online can provide. This article ...
Hammonds, Kyle A.; Anderson-Lain, Karen(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2020)
In this essay, a case study approach is used to examine ways in which comics and graphic narratives can be used to provide a context within which undergraduate students may theorize about culture. The authors employed ...
Guydish Buchholz, Erin(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2020)
While academia tends to focus on differentiating various groups of students, prioritizing similar learning practices can have surprising and potentially transforming outcomes. In classrooms that are often filled with ...
Chuk, Natasha(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2020)
Australian director Cate Shortland’s dramatic thriller Berlin Syndrome (2017) follows the conventions of the genre involving a psychologically unstable male perpetrator and his female victim, thus could hinge on patriarchal ...
CohenMiller, Anna S.(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2019)
Mass media has played, and is currently playing, a role in the way individuals make sense of their identities, roles and that of society. Through these media outlets—whether in TV, media, and music or in newspaper, articles, ...
Tinajero, Robert(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2020)
The field of rhetorical studies is rich and complex but has, in many ways, ignored or marginalized the study of rap music and hip hop culture. This article analyzes ways in which hip hop rhetoric adds to the terrain of ...
Bealer, Tracy(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2019)
In his 2004 essay “Consider the Lobster”, David Foster Wallace investigated the ethics of boiling alive an aesthetically unappealing, yet sentient and perceiving, creature to augment the pleasure of a human consumer. In ...
Strickland, T. Hunter(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2019)
This paper will focus on how the rise in popularity of zombie literature in the 21st century is reflective of a western cultural need to address the fear of the unknown through popular culture. Through the flesh-eating ...
Nuruddin, Sharon M.(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2019)
Popular culture reinforces and shapes the beliefs and values of the individual, the community, and the masses. It can also transmit hidden messages about aspects of human behavior that are reiterated in scholarly research. ...
Thomas, Misty(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2019)
The recent cartoon show on Cartoon Network Steven Universe allows for the blending of both queer theory and media literacies to create a pedagogical space for students to investigate and analyze not only queerness, but ...
Dumin, Laura(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2019)
In 2013, I added an extra credit assignment to my freshmen composition classes encouraging students to bring in news stories each class period; this assignment was designed to encourage students to be more willing to ...
Vosen Callens, Melissa(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2019)
Using a feminist lens, the author argues that audiences have failed to embrace female characters on AMC as antiheroes, particularly when they are in romantic relationships with male antiheroes, for three primary reasons. ...
Bippert, Kelli; CohenMiller, Anna S.(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2019)
We are happy to present our special issue, “Criminals as Heroes: Problems and Pedagogy in Popular Culture,” guest edited by Kate Lane and Roxie James. In this issue we explore the unique role that the anti-hero has taken ...
Watson, Courtney(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2019)
Cultural movements including #TimesUp and #MeToo have contributed momentum to the demand for and development of smart, justified female criminal characters in contemporary television drama. These women are representations ...
Tregonning, James(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2019)
Video games have long courted controversy for their frequent valorisation of criminality. However, in this article, I consider heroic criminals in video games from a different perspective. I focus on two games – Lucas ...
Romanowski, Max(Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2019)
Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul focus on the criminal transformation of their two main characters, Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk). While quite similar on the surface, Walter and Jimmy’s ...