BMC 277: Media and Diversity

By: Amanda Shalkhauser The birth of the Internet has changed the way people communicate and form communities (Cooper 2010). It has provided ...

By: Sarah Felty The United States is currently going through one of the biggest Civil Rights movements of all time. The Gay Rights movement...

By: Kristen Piasecki The television show “Gl ee” is about to approach it’s second on the Fox network. For those of you unfamiliar to what th...

By: Louis-Auxile Maillard "A man who works for a huge global corporation is sent to live in the sticks, but realizes that it isn't...

“Television is a new medium. It’s called a medium because nothing is well-done” – Fred Allen (1950). Television does not fully represent gay...

By: Leslie Purnell “The Bachelor” is about to run its fifteenth on the ABC network. Each season one bachelor is set up with a total of twent...

By Tamara French Today’s generation is filled with much angst and sexuality ( http://cfw.tufts.edu/ ), which is mirrored in many novels and ...

By: Lisa Morris The act of women proposing to men rarely, if at all, is seen in the media. In the year of 1937, the comic strip “Li’l Abner”...

By: Georgina Failey “In many ways the 1990s and early 2000s have been a boom time in television’s presentation of gay, lesbian, bisexual and...

By: Andy Weidner Entourage is a comedy show that premiered on HBO on July 18th 2004 and has run for seven seasons and is about to embark on ...

By: Kristen Piasecki Cultural critics have solidly argued that marketing has encouraged individuals to look to the consumption of goods as a...