This is pretty old by now, but I’m not a regular watcher of Nickelodeon’s Teen Choice Awards, so I hadn’t seen this before. The audience reactions are really interesting, I think.
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What do you think of this?
Found at blogofstench.
For our sociologist and sociologically-inclined readers:
As Wicked Anomie asks, “Sociologist and American are mutually exclusive categories?” Who knew!
She also notes:
…did you also notice that bit about “real issues,” and how they and racial/ethnic issues are mutually exclusive? So, we have the broader category of issues, then we have subcategories of racial/ethnic and “real.”
Indeed.
Via contexts crawler.
A humorous look at how yogurt is marketed to the generic category, “woman.” Quite funny! (From Current TV via Jezebel.)
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf_roIC9Pso[/youtube]
NEW: Here’s an actual yogurt ad that makes it clear that a) yogurt is for women and b) yogurt somehow makes women feel more like “themselves.” Thanks, 73man!
Lisa Wade, PhD is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of American Hookup, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender; and a forthcoming introductory text: Terrible Magnificent Sociology. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram.
This video, produced by Mother Jones, shows Pastor Rod Parsley arguing that America was founded to destroy Islam and has a divine mandate to do so. It is interesting on at least two levels:
First, as a response to the Reverend Wright story, it reminds us that Wright is not the only preacher who says outrageous things, and Obama is not the only politician to get “spiritual guidance” from a controversial figure. In which case, the question might be: Which outrageous preachers are most likely to be targeted as problematic? And by who?
Second, the video could be used to demonstrate how a person can be made to appear frightening or evil through editing. In this case, the move to slow motion, the use of black-and-white, the strategic stills.
In many ways, this video, produced by the left, uses many of the same tactics as the anti-Reverend Wright clips on Fox News and elsewhere. For comparison, The Daily Show put together a montage of coverage that appears in the clip below (at about 6 minutes, 51 seconds) that uses choice words (“fiery”), tone of voice, and fast motion:
Thanks to Joe DeM. for tipping us off to the Mother Jones video!
Lisa Wade, PhD is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of American Hookup, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender; and a forthcoming introductory text: Terrible Magnificent Sociology. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram.
Here are two videos from MTV’s Think campaign (both found here):
I am not at all sure what the message is here–just a general “fear your government” warning? A comment on the Bush Administration’s policies? The Patriot Act? Also note that the message is that the Holocaust happened to people like us–not that it was done by people like us, which might be a more interesting message.
Anyway, I think this could be compared to the PETA posters in a discussion about history and who has the right to use it how. Will everyone see these images as offensive? Is any use of the Holocaust as an example or comparison automatically offensive? Would campaigns that use the Holocaust be as offensive to people if they used the genocide in Rwanda instead? Who gets to claim the right to use images and symbols of historical events, including horrible tragedies, and in what ways can they use them?
Thanks to Simone for pointing these out!
Honestly, I’m not sure what the sociological import is here. Unless, [insert nerdy Durkheim joke here]. If nothing else, it proves that not every advertising exec is sexually frustrated… though it certainly fails to prove that they’re unfrustrated.
Thanks David W!
What do you think of this?
Found at blogofstench.
For our sociologist and sociologically-inclined readers:
As Wicked Anomie asks, “Sociologist and American are mutually exclusive categories?” Who knew!
She also notes:
…did you also notice that bit about “real issues,” and how they and racial/ethnic issues are mutually exclusive? So, we have the broader category of issues, then we have subcategories of racial/ethnic and “real.”
Indeed.
Via contexts crawler.
A humorous look at how yogurt is marketed to the generic category, “woman.” Quite funny! (From Current TV via Jezebel.)
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf_roIC9Pso[/youtube]
NEW: Here’s an actual yogurt ad that makes it clear that a) yogurt is for women and b) yogurt somehow makes women feel more like “themselves.” Thanks, 73man!
Lisa Wade, PhD is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of American Hookup, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender; and a forthcoming introductory text: Terrible Magnificent Sociology. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram.
This video, produced by Mother Jones, shows Pastor Rod Parsley arguing that America was founded to destroy Islam and has a divine mandate to do so. It is interesting on at least two levels:
First, as a response to the Reverend Wright story, it reminds us that Wright is not the only preacher who says outrageous things, and Obama is not the only politician to get “spiritual guidance” from a controversial figure. In which case, the question might be: Which outrageous preachers are most likely to be targeted as problematic? And by who?
Second, the video could be used to demonstrate how a person can be made to appear frightening or evil through editing. In this case, the move to slow motion, the use of black-and-white, the strategic stills.
In many ways, this video, produced by the left, uses many of the same tactics as the anti-Reverend Wright clips on Fox News and elsewhere. For comparison, The Daily Show put together a montage of coverage that appears in the clip below (at about 6 minutes, 51 seconds) that uses choice words (“fiery”), tone of voice, and fast motion:
Thanks to Joe DeM. for tipping us off to the Mother Jones video!
Lisa Wade, PhD is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of American Hookup, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender; and a forthcoming introductory text: Terrible Magnificent Sociology. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram.
Here are two videos from MTV’s Think campaign (both found here):
I am not at all sure what the message is here–just a general “fear your government” warning? A comment on the Bush Administration’s policies? The Patriot Act? Also note that the message is that the Holocaust happened to people like us–not that it was done by people like us, which might be a more interesting message.
Anyway, I think this could be compared to the PETA posters in a discussion about history and who has the right to use it how. Will everyone see these images as offensive? Is any use of the Holocaust as an example or comparison automatically offensive? Would campaigns that use the Holocaust be as offensive to people if they used the genocide in Rwanda instead? Who gets to claim the right to use images and symbols of historical events, including horrible tragedies, and in what ways can they use them?
Thanks to Simone for pointing these out!
Honestly, I’m not sure what the sociological import is here. Unless, [insert nerdy Durkheim joke here]. If nothing else, it proves that not every advertising exec is sexually frustrated… though it certainly fails to prove that they’re unfrustrated.
Thanks David W!