Kim A. Knight

Assistant Professor of Emerging MediaUniversity of Texas at Dallas

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Re: Working for the Fairy Tale

"Fierce" Critique and Simplistic Labels

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Kim A. Knight University of Texas at Dallas

Friday, January 13, 2012 — 1:11 am
Great analysis, Dara. I tried to watch this show once before and could not stomach it due to the way the judges talked to the contestants about their bodies. I was only drawn back in this time because of curiosity about the "viral video" episode ...
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Re: The Multiply Mediated Voice of the America's Next Top Model All Star

re: the construction of "authentic femininity"

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Kim A. Knight University of Texas at Dallas

Tuesday, January 10, 2012 — 5:38 pm
Definitely. I would contrast this to the judge's treatment of Preston and what they see as her instability because she can be aggressive. We had to cut this scene from our video clip, but just after Nigel Barker praises Preston's blog post, he w ...
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Re: The Multiply Mediated Voice of the America's Next Top Model All Star

re: authenticity

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Kim A. Knight University of Texas at Dallas

Wednesday, January 11, 2012 — 2:59 pm
I think we also need to add race and class to the construction of authenticity. In episode 17.3, in which the contestants compete by interviewing with Extra, Barker encourages everyone to be authentic. Mario Lopez asks Preston if she might be hurt by havi ...
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Re: The Multiply Mediated Voice of the America's Next Top Model All Star

identity construction

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Kim A. Knight University of Texas at Dallas

Friday, January 13, 2012 — 12:53 am
Excellent point, Dara. I find myself really intrigued by Tyra Banks as one who both produces and is produced by the show. This is literally embodied in the opening sequence of the entire cycle, in which Tyra portrays multiple contestants in her dream sequ ...
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Re: I Like 'Em All Shapes and Sizes: "Transgressive" Beauty in America's Next Top Model

Julie mentions the

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Kim A. Knight University of Texas at Dallas

Friday, January 13, 2012 — 1:22 am
Julie mentions the potentially damaging message to young women from non-normative models being quickly eliminated. I wonder the same things about what is sometimes an alternate strategy of compartmentalizing non-normative beauty in different shows or publ ...
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Re: The Invisible Model

Very interesting. It seems

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Kim A. Knight University of Texas at Dallas

Monday, January 16, 2012 — 4:53 pm
Very interesting. It seems that on the show there is a tendency to highlight difference, but then also suppress it. What do you make of this in relation to Tyra Banks' stated intention, mentioned by other curators, of being inclusive? Is the inclusi ...

Bio

Kim Knight is an Assistant Professor of Emerging Media and Communication at The University of Texas at Dallas. Her research and teaching interests center on technology and social media in relation to art, identity, politics, and education. Her current research project is entitled Media Epidemics: Viral Structures in Literature and New Media. Knight is a reviewer for Digital Humanities Quarterly, has been an active participant in The Transliteracies Project and is an editorial member of The Agrippa Files: An Online Archive of Agrippa (the book of the dead). She is also the general editor of The Spiral Dance (thespiraldance.wordpress.com), a blog that addresses gender and emerging media as well as Fashioning Circuits (fashioningcircuits.com), a collaborative research blog on the intersection of fashion and emerging media.

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Kim A. Knight

As commenter

"Fierce" Critique and Simplistic Labels

re: the construction of "authentic femininity"

re: authenticity

identity construction

Julie mentions the

Very interesting. It seems

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