Why Reality TV Doesn’t Suck, and May Even Make Us Smarter
It’s easy to assume reality TV is the place where bad TV went to hide when the rest of TV got a lot better. Like that old Wild West town where criminals congregate, reality TV is often perceived as the...
View ArticleOur Cultural Rehabilitation Ritual Won’t Work for Lance Armstrong
Noblesse oblige, we can restore the celebrity to glory under a time-proven cultural ritual of rehabilitation. But in the case of Lance Armstrong, the ritual of rehabilitation is tested to its limit. He...
View ArticleFrom Arrested Development to Dr. Who, Binge Watching Is Changing Our Culture
Why do we binge watch? One way to answer this question is to say, well, we binge on TV for the same reason we binge on food. And these psychological factors are no doubt apt. But the anthropological...
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