Research
Being popular means getting noticed by many. Since the Early Modern Period, the popular has grown in size and scope, slowly at first, but then rapidly and abruptly in the 20th century.
How does this change the social status of the popular? And how does the popular change society?
The CRC 1472 "Transformations of the Popular" is divided into 3 research areas, 6 interdisciplinary working groups and 18 area-specific subprojects.
Teilprojekte und Arbeitsgruppen
Pop, Literature and the “New Sensibility”: Theories, Ways of Writing, Aesthetic Experiments
A06
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“Cheap Images”. The Popularization of Art Historical Knowledge in the Early 20th Century
B02
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Paradoxes of Popularity – Between Hidden Champions and Everyday Entrepreneurship
B06
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Fabricating “the people” – Negotiating Claims of Representation in Social Media in Post-Gezi Turkey
C01
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“One of us” – Discursive Constructions, Media of Participation and Linguistic Practices of Mayoral Communication in the Crisis of Political Representation
C04
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African Musics and Politics: Negotiating Violence in South African Popular Music
C05
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‘Self-made religion’? Transformations of Popular Theological Discourses in the Mirror of the Reception of Publications by Johann Heinrich Jung-Stilling
C06
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Prekäre Popularität: Politischer Populismus als Delegitimierung administrativer Verfahren
C08 (seit 2025)
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Popularitätsresilienz: Rechtfertigungslogiken des Nicht-Populären
AG4 (2021–2024)
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