Abstract Number ‐ 31: No Mercy on Stroke Campaign: The Use of Pop Culture Icons to Raise Stroke Awareness by Vikalpa Dammavalam

“…Conclusions Use of pop culture icon as an advocate for stroke awareness greatly increased reach and impression of the NMOS campaign by touching nearly two million followers. …”
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“Without contraries there is no progression”: The Paradoxical Heterogeneity of Identity in Sinead O‘Connor‘s Poetic Expression by Anna Dyc

“…As a pop culture icon, the Irish musician Sinead O‘Connor has been exposed to harsh criticism, which, unfortunately, centres specifically on the superficial stratum of her artistic work. …”
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Madonna, “sex” e o fetichismo pós-moderno by Roney Gusmão

“…This text is one of the postdoctoral research products developed at the Instituto de Sociologia of the Universidade do Porto, aiming to understand how pop culture icons translate postmodern values. Here we are interested in observing how “Sex” reifies contemporary hedonism, and for this we resort to the concept of fetish in Freud and Marx to analyze discourses of power in their dialectical relationship with the ethos of the system. …”
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Social Criticism about the 2019 Election Campaign in the Comic Strip Gump n Hell by Luqman Wahyudi, Sri Hesti Heriwati

“…Criticism in comics is represented subtly or indirectly through pop culture icons that become representations or parodies of exact political figures and wrapped in narratives according to political phenomena.…”
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(Im)possible martyrdom: Masculinity, aging, illness, and death in Tombstone and Logan by Petković Danijela Lj.

“…Cosmatos and James Mangold respectively, depict the last days of such pop culture icons of masculinity as John Henry 'Doc' Holliday and James Howlett, aka Logan/Wolverine. …”
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Adangiyah by Bambang Sunarto

“…From the results of this study, there is an implicit meaning in the comic strip of pop culture icons' use to represent political figures in the form of parodies. …”
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