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  Can TV See Class? Or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Believe in the American Dream

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  Robert Cannon California State University, Los Angeles

  September 23, 2011

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  Can TV See Class? Or How I learned to Stop Worrying and Believe in the American Dream working ...
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  You Can't Turn a Ho into a Housewife: Basketball Wives and the Politics of Wifedom

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  Racquel Gates College of Staten Island, CUNY

  September 26, 2011

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  You Can't Turn a Ho into a Housewife: Basketball Wives and the Politics of Wifedom reality TV and otherness Basketball Wives African American Curator's Note In this clip from the popular VH1 reality show, Basketball Wives, the cast confronts a k ...
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  How words acquire (and lose) meaning

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  Karen Petruska University of California, Santa Barbara

  Monday, September 26, 2011 — 2:29 pm

  I love this post.  Thanks for helping me learn more about a show I don't watch (but should be ...
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  Fitting In on The Glee Project

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  Shawna Kidman UC San Diego

  September 30, 2011

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  Fitting In on The Glee Project reality TV and otherness identity performance disciplinary practices Curator's Note This summer, Ryan Murphy gave fans of Glee an official peek into the show's "real" casting protocols with a reality seri ...
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  Thanks Jeremy!

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  Shawna Kidman UC San Diego

  Friday, September 30, 2011 — 11:11 pm

  a role in their personal development.  It's like they're learning to see themselves as ...
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  The Great American Dream Machine

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  Laurie Ouellette University of Minnesota

  October 03, 2011

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  The Great American Dream Machine satire PBS history of television culture wars Curator's Note This past summer, PBS affiliates aired a commemoration of the 40th anniversary of The Great American Dream Machine (PBS, 1971-1972), one of the earliest (an ...
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  Re: The Great American Dream Machine

  why overlooked?

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  Karen Petruska University of California, Santa Barbara

  Monday, October 3, 2011 — 2:09 pm

  reality television, for example.  What do you think scholars might learn by taking a closer look at ...
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  Comedy on American Public Broadcasting

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  Bill Kirkpatrick Denison University

  Monday, October 3, 2011 — 2:39 pm

  I was unaware of this show, so I appreciated learning about it here. It made me rack my brains for ...
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  Exploring 'Educational Entertainment': ‘On (the) Ontogeny of Orange Oscar’

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  Josh Shepperd Catholic University

  October 05, 2011

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  strategies. When the broadcasting model of radio emerged in 1921, distance-learning administrators seized upon ... that was both effective and stimulating. By the mid-1960s educators had learned to consolidate critical ... curricular content and experiential learning into the formal commercial conventions of children's ...
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  Re: Exploring 'Educational Entertainment': ‘On (the) Ontogeny of Orange Oscar’

   Good stuff!

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  Patrick Cox Rutgers, Department of Childhood Studies

  Thursday, October 6, 2011 — 1:00 pm

  education? Since education was Sesame Street’s primary goal, I wonder if they ever asked, “Does anyone learn ...

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