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  "This is an unstable environment”: Teen Mom 2 and Class

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  Chelsea Bullock Georgia Institute of Technology

  November 16, 2012

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  and Chelsea’s attempt to earn her GED. Teen Mom 2  is anti-aspirational television. The show makes the ...
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  "Bridalplasty": If you're shocked, you haven't been paying attention

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  Jennifer L. Pozner Women In Media & News (WIMN) and author, www.RealityBitesBackBook.com

  September 20, 2010

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  challenges to “win a wedding fit for the stars where she will unveil her shocking new look” to the man she’s ...
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  Disjuncture and Difference in The Amazing Race

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  Robert Moses Peaslee Texas Tech University

  October 13, 2009

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  clip makes clear, it’s really not about winning the Race so much as it is about “being on” the Race. ...
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  A Taste for Reality

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  Eva Hageman University of Maryland College Park

  February 28, 2013

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  always at their very worst. I would say more but I think Lena Dunham’s about to win Best Director for Bad ...
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  Perpetuating the American Dream through Investment Television

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  Emma Frances Bloomfield University of Nevada, Las Vegas

  January 12, 2016

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  Perpetuating the American Dream through Investment Television Tokenism reality television capitalism American dream Curator's Note To determine whether the American Dream is alive and well, one could turn on the television and watch an investment tel ...