{"id":841,"date":"2011-10-23T21:24:36","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T02:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=841"},"modified":"2011-11-07T15:13:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T20:13:53","slug":"punishing-addiction-celebrity-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2011\/10\/23\/punishing-addiction-celebrity-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Punishing Addiction: Celebrity Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"img-link\" title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by americanistadechiapas on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33166549@N05\/6248678806\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6161\/6248678806_a9e27d63a3_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Lindsay Lohan\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Tiger&#8217;s culture review\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/contexts.org\/articles\/summer-2011\/they-tried-to-make-her-go-to-rehab\/\">&#8220;They Tried to Make Her Go to Rehab&#8221;<\/a> (about the reaction to Lindsay Lohan&#8217;s struggles with drugs and alcohol) would be useful in any deviancy course or\u00a0for organizing a discussion on addiction discourses or media\/online interaction.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We recommend having the students read the article and then conducting their own review of comments\u00a0about\u00a0celebrity addiction that they can find online (like Rebecca Tiger&#8217;s review of Perez Hilton&#8217;s coverage). Have them bring examples of what they find to class to get a discussion going on how celebrity addiction is portrayed and how these discourses relates to drug policy and rehabilitation for the rest of us.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You could also bring up\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/perezhilton.com\/2011-07-23-rip-amy-winehouse#.TqTGA2Dw02s\">Amy Winehouse<\/a>, whose recent death reinvigorated the public discussion of the causes, cures, and consequences of addiction.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca Tiger&#8217;s culture review\u00a0&#8220;They Tried to Make Her Go to Rehab&#8221; (about the reaction to Lindsay Lohan&#8217;s struggles with drugs and alcohol) would be useful in any deviancy course or\u00a0for organizing a discussion on addiction discourses or media\/online interaction. We recommend having the students read the article and then conducting their own review of comments\u00a0about\u00a0celebrity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127403],"tags":[2257,403,237,5007],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-resources","tag-addiction","tag-deviance","tag-drugs","tag-pop-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":905,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}