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“You’re not here for the right reasons!” From The Bachelorette to Instagram Influencer

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Despite vast research on reality television (RTV) and The Bachelor (2002) franchise specifically, most scholarship focuses on its appeal or negative impact on viewers as discussed by the authors, despite the inclusion of social media.
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Despite vast research on reality television (RTV) and The Bachelor (2002) franchise specifically, most scholarship focuses on its appeal or negative impact on viewers. The inclusion of social media...

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How to Study Ownership and Regulation

Des Freedman
TL;DR: The Handbook of Television Studies as discussed by the authors charts the field of television studies from issues of ownership and regulation through to reception and consumption, examining the roles of journalists, writers, cinematographers, producers and manufacturers in the production process.
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Tech, Sex, and E-cigarettes: The Gendering of Vape Promotion on Instagram

TL;DR: In this article , the authors examined 44,052 Instagram posts by 60 male presenting and 60 female presenting vape influencers to understand how influencer gender mediates the performance of vape culture online.
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Just “harmless entertainment”? Effects of surveillance reality TV on physical aggression.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated how different content within reality TV affected viewer aggression and found that viewers exposed to relational aggression were more aggressive than those watching either a supportive family surveillance reality program or a violent crime drama.
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Dealing with tensions of multiculturalism: The politics of ritual slaughter in the Netherlands

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors deal with the question how cultural diversity, expressed in a parliamentary debate, can influence the space given to religious minorities to substantiate their identity and conclude that politicians struggle to position themselves amidst those fundamental questions and certainty is sought in the legal, political, scientific, economic and historical domain.
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Postfeminism, Girls and Young Women, and Digital Media

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight the key contextual factors in situating the media practices and self-representations discussed in this book within "postfeminist" digital culture, and describe some of the changes feminist scholars of media and culture have noted in the cultural landscape of the late-1980s onward, positioned centrally as postfeminist in terms of cultural, political, and social shifts that were provoked in key ways by the second wave feminist movement.