Tag archive for ‘Deception’
To Watch a Predator
by: Eric Freedman / Florida Atlantic University

Do the suspects of Dateline: To Catch a Predator have any right to privacy, or can they be freely featured as part of the flow of network television?
Seeing is Believing
by: Jennifer Warren / Independent Scholar
Critics of photography envisioned a world where people had consumed the image and thought they had experienced the thing itself. It seems they weren’t far off the mark.
Let Me Tell You—
by: Craig Jacobsen / Mesa Community College
What’s new, or at least notable by degree, is the attention being given to the portrayal of storytelling within broadcast network programming.
Watching TV Poker
by: Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa
Andrejevic considers the cultural logic of the recent surge in televised poker tourneys.
What a Long, Bad Trip It’s Been
by: Mark Andrejevic / University of Iowa
The voyeurism and surveillance of MTV’s One Bad Trip become inverted after the first season, leaving audiences to wonder; who’s watching, and who’s performing?
We Are So Screwed: Invasion TV
by: Derek Kompare / Southern Methodist University
Making sense of the supernatural on prime-time.
Irony Irony: The Mission (Accomplished) of The Daily Show
by: David Lavery / Middle Tennessee State University
Sham or not, The Daily Show remains deeply committed to its mission: “truthiness.”
Soap in the Chocolate Bar
by: Tom McCourt / Fordham University
Does Apple’s new iPod Nano represent greater freedom for digital music users?
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