Tag: Reality TV
Reality TV show contestants are more like unpaid interns than Hollywood stars
David Arditi, University of Texas at Arlington
In December 2018, John Legend joined then-newly elected U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez...
‘The Activist’ reality TV show sparked furor, but treating causes as...
Alexandra Budabin, University of Dayton and Lisa Ann Richey, Copenhagen Business School
CBS quickly backpedaled after an announcement about...
What Orwell’s ‘1984’ tells us about today’s world, 70 years after...
Stephen Groening, University of Washington
Seventy years ago, Eric Blair, writing under a pseudonym George Orwell, published “1984,” now generally considered a classic of dystopian...
How TV cultivates authoritarianism – and helped elect Trump
James Shanahan, Indiana University and Michael Morgan, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Many gallons of ink (and megabytes of electronic text) have been devoted to explaining...
Donald Trump: The Underdog, The Rally Roaster, The Superhero
Trump has been on the ropes more times than Rocky Balboa, maybe. But no one could knock him out.
The most American pop culture phenomenon of them all
Katherine Meizel, Bowling Green State University
“American Idol” was “born” exactly nine months after 9/11. The timing was significant, because since its premiere on June...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
