Feminist Networks and the Conjuncture

Reality TV: A Constant Reinvention for Living in Real-Time?


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In this episode, host Sarah Banet-Weiser talks with Professor Eva Hageman and Professor Laurie Ouellette about their work on representation in reality TV and on identity in social media, respectively. They discuss how contemporary media impose a script for living but also offer a platform for social change. They problematize the social impact of reality TV by pointing out how some TV shows offer medical and financial resources to families who have been neglected by state institutions, but they also point out how this requires families to play the role of marginalized people.

 

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Featuring

Sarah Banet-Weiser

Eva Hageman

Laurie Ouellette

 

Sponsor:

Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication


More from the host & speakers: 


Sarah Banet-Weiser

Distinguished Professor; Professor | Annenberg School for Communication; Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism 

University of Pennsylvania; University of Southern California

Twitter - @sbanetweiser

 

Eva Hageman

Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies and the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

University of Maryland


Laurie Ouellette

Professor of Communication Studies and Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, Department Chair

University of Minnesota

Twitter: @ProfOuellette

Facebook: Laurie Ouellette

Instagram: @lauriejean2016

Works referenced in episode: 

Ouellette, L. (2017). Bare enterprise: US television and the business of dispossession (post-crisis, gender and property television). European Journal of Cultural Studies20(5), 490-508.


Ouellette, L. (2019). Spark joy? Compulsory happiness and the feminist politics of decluttering. Culture Unbound11(3-4), 534-550.


Ouellette, L., & Hay, J. (2008). Better Living Through Reality Tv: Television and post-welfare citizenship. Blackwell Pub. 

Hageman, E. C. (2019). Debt by Design: Race and Home Valorization on Reality TV. In Mukherjee, R., Banet-Weiser, S., & Gray, H. (Eds.). Racism postrace. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.


Copy and Audio Editors:

Jo Lampert

Dominic Bonelli

Executive Producer:
DeVante Brown

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