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Bachelor nation : inside the world of America's favorite guilty pleasure
Draws on interviews with producers and fans to present a behind-the-scenes look at the reality television phenomenon and explores the show's cultural influence and significance.
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Standing United or Falling Divided? High Stakes Bargaining in a TV Game Show
We examine high stakes three-person bargaining in a game show where contestants bargain over a large money amount that is split into three unequal shares. We find that individual behavior and outcomes are strongly influenced by equity concerns: those who contributed more to the jackpot claim larger shares, are less likely to make concessions, and take home larger amounts. Contestants who announce that they will not back down do well relative to others, but they do not secure larger absolute amounts and they harm others. There is no evidence of a first-mover advantage and little evidence that demographic characteristics matter.
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Achieving Course Objectives And Student Learning Outcomes: Seeking Student Feedback On Their Progress
Most postsecondary faculty in the UnitedStates include course goals or objectives as key components of their syllabi. In addition to individual course objectives, manyinstitutions have identified institution-wide student learning outcomes(SLOs). This paper describes one facultymembers attempts to elicit feedback from students regarding their growthrelated to both course objectives and SLOs and provides the results from acourse evaluation and a focus group.
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TELEVISION REVIEW; TELEVISION CRITIC; Through the mill of love one more time
The fans of \"The Bachelor\" and \"The Bachelorette\" get to see some of their favorites back in action, including crazy Michelle from Season 14 and the villainous Wes, who admitted he went on \"The Bachelorette\" to become famous rather than fall in love (can you imagine?). [...] everyone gets a glimpse at the growing but still intimate world of reality stars. Because these are no dewy-eyed innocents, my friend.
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THE MONITOR; Again, what's love got to do with it?; `The Bachelor' is back for Season 10, with a Navy doctor as bait, and so is all the guile a girl could muster
Its format has been relentlessly copied and parodied -- once you've seen the over-the-top chain ceremonies on \"I Love New York,\" the straight faces maintained during the \"Bachelor's\" rose ceremonies are to be admired, or feared. Yet even in the face of innovation, \"The Bachelor\" remains static. The men who are the show's prizes have had plenty in common over the years -- they're bright and handsome (but not so much that it's threatening), a notch cheesy and, most crucially, absolutely irony-free. (Between this show and \"Extreme Makeover: Home Edition,\" ABC is an easy contender for America's most earnest network.) This season's specimen, Lt. Andy Baldwin, is a Navy doctor (educated at UC San Francisco), competes in Ironman triathlons and drives an extremely rare, and wildly expensive, Saleen S7 Twin Turbo. Yet somehow he's single. Imagine that -- a motivated overachiever who hasn't found room for someone else in his life. The horror. Generally, though, the Bachelor plays the straight man -- his courtship has all the sizzle of an eHarmony commercial. And his lack of guile makes him a willing mark for manipulative suitors who aren't subject to the same genteel expectations the Bachelor needs to uphold.
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Popular television and visual culture: Intentions and perceptions of “Aliens in America”
This study examined the intentions of a group of individuals who created the sitcom Aliens in America broadcast on the CW Network in 2007-2008 and the ways in which three separate groups (bloggers, TV critics and local television viewers) perceived the show. In doing so I attempted to uncover the pedagogical implications of these intentions and perceptions for visual culture studies. I used a qualitative approach to conduct this study. I gathered interviews the creators of the show gave to media outlets in 2007 and 2008. I also gathered data from three other distinct groups for this study. First, I conducted focus group interviews with 13 individuals who watched and discussed their perceptions of Aliens in America. Second, I surveyed the perceptions of bloggers through a narrative analysis of postings published on the CW network website in 2007-2008. Thirdly, I sampled reviews of the show by TV critics to learn about their perceptions of the show. This study uncovered three key findings. First, the existence of a gap or disconnect between the ways in which the show was intended by its creators and how it was perceived by selected audiences. The second major finding was the unexpected level of engagement with the show exhibited by bloggers and focus group participants and their deep connection with some of the characters. The third finding involved the use of audio cues in some episodes of the series and its possible influence on viewers to react in a certain way to specific situations. These findings have specific implications for visual culture studies. First, the show presents an immense potential for use with seasoned educators during workshops. Second, these findings indicate that the use of audio cues in TV shows is problematic for younger audiences and requires more media literacy to take place in the art education classroom. Third, teacher education programs could use the show to train pre-service teachers and help them relate to the type of television programming their students are engaging with on a daily basis.
Dissertation
Call for black 'Bachelors'
The lawsuit, which names ABC and Mike Fleiss, executive producer of the two programs, claims the dating shows have never featured a person of color in the central role of deciding who, among the season's lineup of dates, is the winning choice as a potential mate.
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Another white 'Bachelor'?
There's a swirling controversy now over the role of race on HBO's new series \"Girls,\" about four young women seeking love in Brooklyn.
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'The Bachelor' tries new twists
After five seasons, ABC's The Bachelor is spicing up in the hope of keeping its one true love -- viewers -- from straying. Ratings for the series have averaged 11.3 million to 16.7 million viewers, peaking back in 2002 with bachelor Aaron Buerge. In the two-hour premiere special, each of the 25 female contestants will give the man of her choice a rose, and the man with the most stays to play out the dating game. By the end of the episode, the chosen bachelor must eliminate 10 of the women. PHOTOS, B/W, Bob D'Amico, ABC (2); [Jay Overbye]: In real estate. [Byron Velvick]: Pro fisherman.
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'The Bachelorette' Isn't Engaged With the Press
Meanwhile, Alex, the predator on \"The Bachelor\" who had dumped [Trista Rehn], has reportedly split up with the woman he picked instead. And if that's not enough, Aaron Buerge and Helene Eksterowicz, the crazy-in-love couple from the second edition of \"The Bachelor,\" are apparently splitsville, too, because, Aaron suggested during promos for last night's \"The Bachelor: Aaron and Helene Tell All,\" he was miserable. That would explain why, when during that same news conference another hardworking journalist just trying to get a \"Bachelorette\" story into the next day's paper tried to engage Trista in a conversation about the earlier rumors on the many fan Web boards that said she had picked Ryan's rival Charlie Maher, the smooth- talking, brilliantined account executive, Trista growled: \"People have a little too much time on their hands and need to be doing something more productive.\" It's an interesting comment from a woman who has moved from Miami to Los Angeles and gone on this dating TV series not once but twice in hopes, she has said, of launching a Hollywood career. During yesterday's news conference, Trista said that if no offers came her way, she would move to Vail, where her fiance has a job. \"Oooohhhhh!\" Trista gushed happily. [Ryan Sutter] had no idea who TV producer [David E. Kelley] was. Trista quickly filled him in on all of Kelley's credits.
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