Teaching Media Quarterly CFP: Teaching with Reality Television

Below is a CFP from *Teaching Media Quarterly*'s upcoming special
issue: *Teaching
with Reality Television. *

Teaching Media Quarterly is an open access journal dedicated to sharing
approaches to media topics and concepts. Please consider submitting a
lesson plan to our current call, Teaching with Reality Television. We also
have an ongoing open call for lesson plans. You can access our journal HERE
<https://pubs.lib.umn.edu/index.php/tmq/index>. Information about the call
is below. Please share with friends, colleagues, and grad students who
teach media classes!

Call for Lesson Plans: Teaching with Reality Television

From The Real World to The Bachelor, the reality TV genre provides unique
insight into how television is changing, while also drawing on familiar
generic conventions and modes of address. Scholars continue to trace its
effects on marketing and advertisers, above and below-the-line labor
practices, multi-platform storytelling, fan labor, and questions of
governmentality and surveillance, among many others. Teaching with reality
television allows instructors to discuss the rise of convergence culture
and the role of new media, making for a case study likely to resonate with
students through their engagement with television and related social
media. Teaching
Media Quarterly is interested in learning and sharing how instructors teach
with reality television and why.

Contributors are welcome to consider the following questions:

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   How do you historicize reality television in the classroom?
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   Which scholarly texts do you assign in conjunction with particular
   reality television programs?
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   If you ask students to create their own reality programming, what does
   the assignment look like?
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   How do you attend to questions of difference in reality television -
   gender, sexuality, race, ability, class, etc.?
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   How do you teach the relationship between reality television and
   neoliberalism?
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   How do you teach the relationship between reality television and
   feminized media?
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   How does reality television lend itself to political economy analyses?
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   What is the relationship between streaming services (Netflix, Hulu,
   Amazon, etc.) and reality television?
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   How do you teach the relationship between reality television and other
   forms of media (social media, new media, etc.)?

The deadline for submissions is June 1st.

Best,

-- 
Caroline Bayne
Graduate Instructor
Department of Communication Studies
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

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