Anthropology and the AlDub Nation
Entertainment as Politics and Politics as Entertainment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9397997 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Raul Pertierra (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 289-300 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philippine Studies Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2244-1093 • E-ISSN: 2244-1638 |
| Publisher | Ateneo de Manila University Press (PUBLISHER • PH) |
| DOI | 10.1353/phs.2016.0020 |
| OpenAlex | W2415762656 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
The links between politics and entertainment in the Philippines are well known, but few have noted these links in the media phenomenon known as AlDub. As a subpart of Eat Bulaga, a long-standing midday TV show, AlDub has gained a life of its own, giving its actors national and even global prominence. How was this possible? Was it happenstance or do basic interests and structures explain its popularity? A deep ethnographic account of how popular culture is generated, reproduced, and consumed reveals its anchoring in material structures the interests of which are often disguised or unacknowledged. Anthropology provides a way of exploring such interests and structures
Advertising · Aesthetics · Anthropology of art · Art · Art history · Business · Digital anthropology · Entertainment · Epistemology · Ethnography · Media studies · Performance art · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Popularity · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |