Quote of the day

"We're going to look at Lady Gaga as a social event ... So it's not the person, and it's not the music. It's more this thing out there in society that has 10 million followers on Facebook and six million on Twitter. I mean, that's a social phenomenon".

The University of South Carolina's new course on Lady Gaga and the Sociology of the Fame - described on the course blog as "relatively challenging" and not for first-year students - actually sounds quite interesting. I wonder how much the course fees would be were it to be run at an English university, though...