Research and Ethics – the final project planning hurdle

Although reality television has emerged as a leading genre in recent years, academia on the subject remains somewhat scarce. On the other hand, there is an abundance of work on mediated audience theories and the public sphere (the theoretical frameworks I mentioned in my previous blog post) in countless communication journals. When doing some background …

Activating defence mode – research plan for The Bachelor Franchise

When sitting down, eating dinner, and watching Bachelor of Paradise two nights a week, I never thought that I’d be knee-deep in the complex web of its media network less than two months later. What began as a guilty pleasure has evolved into an exploration of a large mediated sub-cultural group with a variety of …

The Twitter(public)sphere

Prepare for your mind to be blown. Whether you know it or not, we are all members of a virtual community which does not necessarily exist in a distinguishable place. This hidden brotherhood is known as the Public Sphere, and it’s actually pretty important to the way our society functions. Developed in the 1960s by …