Women's Studies 2161A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, Participatory Theory, Reality Television

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2161A/B
• Professor: Nichole Edwards

Document Summary

Ws lecture 6 reality tv and femininity. Characteristics of reality tv: deeply varied subgenres, red neck trend, middle aged moms, survival and wilderness trend. It increases the ratings of the new show: they see what social media says and they manipulate the show to increase momentum, and scope of narratives the ratings based on the medias interests. Season 2: half of the episodes were directed by women. Part ii: class and femininity on reality tv. Cultural class: go to is to talk about economic class, class: distribution of inequality formed around the basis of capitalism expressed by economic differentiation, class in terms of culture. Identities are created through consumption: cultural class: access to tastes and lifestyles, we"re gonna focus on this. ) have to show that ) : about striving for a very particular kind of femininity a middle class respectable. Redemption narrative: valuable femininity shown here is white valuable femininity.