Popular Academics

Reanimating First Principles | Here nerds, geeks and wandering minds unite to muse academics | Cinema, Fantasy, Sci-fi, Comics - All for Acads | Coming Soon.

[Popular Academics @PopAcademics]

As @PopAcademics inches towards launch, let us give you a sneak peek of how will we do it. (1/3)

#COMINGSOON #DoIt #Fun

[SHlPTlSSKlNCAN @shitpisskican]

I have a joke on Great Power Politics, bit it's Offensive.
#Mearsheimer #AcademicChatter #IHaveAJokeOn

[Akanksha Jain @akankshajn14]

I have a Joke about Energy, but its changing its form!
#ScienceTwitter #AcademicTwitter
Follow @PopAcademics if you haven't already! 😉

[Popular Academics @PopAcademics]

I have a joke on Mjollnir, but I'm not worthy to tell it.

#IHaveAJokeOn #IHaveAJokeAbout #IHaveAJoke
@MarvelStudios @Marvel_India #Thor

[Popular Academics @PopAcademics]

Q. Why do we do Popular Academics?
Quentin Tarantino answers it in the best possible way. Learning is not *only* found in books, it happens through action and experience.

At @PopAcademics, we DO academics, we LIVE it.

@TarantinoFC @TarantinoWorld

[Popular Academics @PopAcademics]

The launch is near.

Soon we will learn leadership through
@MarvelStudios and @DCComics, geopolitics from @GameOfThrones, quantum physics from @Anime
and much more...

Follow @PopAcademics and you'll learn the way never imagined before.

[Popular Academics @PopAcademics]

Our Solution:
#PopCulture unites us beyond our professions and backgrounds. Therefore, it can be used to simplify #AcademicChatter through #zeitgeist and cultural references. We wish to maintain #simplicity as the ultimate sophistication.

Follow @PopAcademics to know more. (3/3)

[Popular Academics @PopAcademics]

As @PopAcademics inches towards launch, let us give you a sneak peek of how will we do it. (1/3)

#COMINGSOON #DoIt #Fun

[Popular Academics @PopAcademics]

#Problem Statement:
When #knowledge becomes specialized and complex, the audience to consume it becomes limited. How to bring scholars and experts out of #IvoryTower and think of a tool that has wider accessibility?

#AcademicChatter (2/3)

[Popular Academics @PopAcademics]

A well-research work of art has great potential to augment our understanding of research problems.
Asimov shows how #popculture and scientific #research fuse to make a complicated subject become talk-of-the-town.
@hollywoodscifi #scifi #AcademicChatter

[Popular Academics @PopAcademics]

Who says that sci-fi, fantasy, movies, games etc. are for leisure and does not cause learning?

As Sir Isaac Asimov says, let's scrub off our windows to see a new world.
At @PopAcademics, we challenge these assumptions. Popular Culture for Academics!!
@SYFY @70sscifi #robotics

[Popular Academics @PopAcademics]

*TRIVIA*
Many #Tolkien scholars have used his work to portray the ecologism/industrialization debate.
Remember Ents and the fall of #Isengard?
@LOTRonPrime #LOTR #TheTwoTowers #silmarillion

[Popular Academics @PopAcademics]

The father of High #Fantasy, J R R Tolkien, wrote that all #myths and #stories must contain a reflection of truth based in the 'real world'.
#popculture is a reflection of society thus making it possible to isolate academic #concepts for learning.

@TolkienSociety @LOTRonPrime

[Popular Academics @PopAcademics]

Quote Reference: "The Letters of J R R Tolkien", Letter 131 to Milton Waldman, written in 1951.
@TolkienSociety @HarperCollins

https://t.co/ASn4sXBQEk

[Popular Academics @PopAcademics]

A timely movie from @PrimeVideo - check out the trailer of #Radioactive. #RosamundPike looks phenomenal as #MarieCurie.

@PopAcademics wishes for the movies' success. As we say, #POPCulture is a great pedagogical tool.

#radium #WomenInSTEM #womenintech

https://t.co/y56KgXeDIv

[Popular Academics @PopAcademics]

#Ideas are central to human civilization. Both pop-culture and academics, they are expression of 'ideas' through different medium, observations and methods.

@PopAcademics connects systemically-inquired 'research' and free-spirited expression of 'art'.

[Popular Academics @PopAcademics]

*TRIVIA* Sergei Eisenstein's film Battleship Potemkin (1925) was named as eleventh-greatest film of all time by
@BFI

#cinema #silverclassics
It beautifully captures mass sentiment during Russian Revolution. An excellent source to study the period.
https://t.co/65B4Zj0WWc

[Popular Academics @PopAcademics]

If cinema is a representation of concepts and symbols originated from real-world concepts, is it possible to reverse engineer it for academic learning? (1/2)

@PopAcademics is motivated from these ideas from Sergei Eisenstein.
#twitterquotes #quotes #motivation #academictwitter

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Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948) was the pioneer of montage as a form of film-making.

Reference: A Dialectic Approach to Film Form By Sergei Eisenstein. Essay from “Film Form”; 1949; New York. Written in Moscow, April 1929.
@NYFA @filmcourage #filmstudiesff @filmmakerIQ

[Popular Academics @PopAcademics]

@ryan1ds77 @akankshajn14 @AcademicChatter We are a platform that will use popular culture references to explain academic concepts by keeping the rigour intact. We seek to make learning fun.

Please follow us to stay tuned.

[Popular Academics @PopAcademics]

@PopAcademics is coming soon. We will be having an independent website that is currently under development.

Meanwhile, we will delineate the #methodology, proof of #concept and our #philosophy to make a case that popular culture can be used as an effective pedagogical tool.