Wednesday 16:00-16:30 Laurie Taylor discusses the latest social science research.
17 September 2008 repeat 21 Sep
CLASS and REALITY TV According to new research around 78% of our free to air tv schedules is now comprised of reality TV advising us, chastising us, humiliating us and surprising us – but what is the underlying message about the kind of people we are supposed to think we are? Laurie Taylor is joined by Professor Beverley Skeggs, co-author of a recent ESRC research project entitled Making Class and Self Through Televised Ethical Scenarios. They discuss the sub-text of reality TV make-over programmes and the manner in which they portray working class people.
BALTI BRITAIN Ziauddin Sardar talks about his new book Balti Britain – A Journey through the British Asian experience and discusses the nature of the relationship between Britain and the Indian Sub-continent.
Making Class and Self Through Televised Ethical Scenarios Prof. Beverley Skeggs & Dr Helen Wood Chapter in book Spectacular morality : 'reality' television, individualisation and the remaking of the working class Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 9780415447997
Professor Ziauddin Sardar British Muslim author – Visiting Professor of Postcolonial Studies, Department of Arts Policy and Management at City University, London
Balti Britain; A Journey Through the British Asian Experience Publisher: Granta Books ISBN-10: 1862079315 ISBN-13: 978-1862079311
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