A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
A Critical Forum on Media and Culture
Georgia Aitaki explores discourses of migration and culture on Sweden’s Älskar, Älskar Inte (Love Me, Love Me Not.)
Read moreRyan David Briggs describes how The Big Shot with Bethenny reflects the increasing demands of the real world job search.
Read moreAlex Remington explores the complicated set of logics and ethics in the confessional form in reality television.
Read moreCynthia Meyers theorizes the “family brand,” discussing examples from The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet to Keeping Up with the Kardashians.
Read moreAmazon Prime has officially entered into the world of fashion reality TV with new show, Making the Cut. Danielle Williams analyzes the implications of Amazon utilizing livestream shopping as a tool to expand its platform.
Read moreLooking at the battle between Hannah and Luke on The Bachelorette, Matthew H. Brittingham examines the complicated intersection of faith and sex in American reality television.
Read moreAlison Harvey compares the appeal of slow and mundane Terrace House to the idle video game genre. She explores audiences’ move away from media’s demands of hyper-competitivity and self-actualization and suggests mainstream gaming increasingly includes pockets of idleness in its design.
Read moreMaggie Steinhauer explores interactive voting methods for reality competition programs and the impact of Twitter #Save features on live television.
Read moreMyles McNutt explores HGTV’s relationship with “spatial capital” and observes how the network negotiates this spatial capital in programming that erases location and programming that explicitly frames location.
Read moreManuel Aviles-Santiago explores Univision’s latest appeal to “billenial” audiences through its new show, La Banda , about the creation of a new boy band, which encourages pan-Latino viewership and millennial engagement.
Read moreAn examination of the construction of the American Dream mythology within ABC’s Shark Tank
Read moreWhen the Whole World is Watching: The Case of Celebrity Big Brother
by: Sarita Malik / Brunel University
Now that we can begin to look back at Celebrity Big Brother in less impulsive, more diagnostic ways, the major upshot – aside from a surefire boost to Shilpa Shetty’s international career following her win –
should be the critical attention paid to Channel 4’s role.