Caroline Ferris Leader

Independent scholar in media industries and children's mediaUniversity of Texas at Austin

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Storytelling and the Role of Imagination in Educational Children's TV of the 1980s

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Caroline Ferris Leader University of Texas at Austin

February 01, 2012
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Storytelling and the Role of Imagination in Educational Children's TV of the 1980s Showtime PBS niching Long Ago and Far Away HBO children's television Curator's Note Children’s educational programming is one of the more problematic areas o ...

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Re: The Guy Watching is HOW Old?

The 'perversion' jump by brony critics

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Caroline Ferris Leader University of Texas at Austin

Monday, January 30, 2012 — 9:21 pm
I've heard a lot about bronies before and your article convinced me to surf YouTube and see what the bronies had to say for themselves. To me, bronies seem to represent more of an offshoot of gamer/manga fan culture, finding FiM through animation mem ...