Take a course in Lady Gaga—Important Role of Social Media!
Students at the University of South Carolina (USC) are being given the chance to do a course on Lady Gaga starting in spring 2011. The sociology degree, Lady Gaga and the Sociology of the Fame, will focus on the star’s rise to fame. According to the course’s website, students look at the role that business and marketing strategies and new media have played in Lady Gaga’s career. Gay culture, religious and political themes, sex and sexuality, and the cities of New York and Hollywood also come under the spotlight. According to Professor Mathieu Deflem, who lead the course, this course is not about persona or music Lady Gaga, but more emphasis on the fact that the popularity of Lady Gaga makes it has 10 million followers in the up and six million in Twitter. It is a social phenomenon!
source: life.globaltimes.cn
Like her or not, you have to admit that she is different. She’s unlike the stereotypical song performer in that she is not played up by her looks. I guess one could say that Lady Gaga is the Elizabeth Bennet of the 21st century, in that she epitomizes the social climate of the age. It might be a little far-fetched, but when you watch Lady Gaga`s videos you get a strong, vibrant sense that you know exactly the type of audience she has and the type of society she is trying to depict: fast-paced, superficial, alert, fragmented, borderline cubic (but life as the engine of a society should be continuous, fluid, never one-sided and most certainly never superfluous).
Lady Gaga on her queer button hat (source: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn)
In many of her songs, Gaga uses her odd-ball theatrical presence to its full extent to shock, creep-out and fascinate the viewers. I may not fully understand the occult meaning behind her queer sense of fashion and exaggerated theatrical presence, I appreciate her courage and talent to play with the public, to play with fame. And thanks to Lady Gaga, artists are starting to dress much more crazy, more out there even on the Oscar red carpet.
source:http://www.foxnewsz.com