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Influencers fill emotional and information needs. They are perceived as role models followers identify with, or whose example they want to follow.
The new season of The Bachelorette Australia is making some historic firsts in the franchise when it comes to on-screen bisexual representation.
The producers are recasting the show as a documentary. The original version would have done more harm than good for the causes being showcased, two scholars argue.
To witness South Asian representation on a global platform is liberating, but what one is being represented for is of more importance, if not the most.
The #MyOrthodoxLife movement challenges both mainstream and ultra-Orthodox media to tell more nuanced and complex stories about Jewish women.
Big Brother Naija has a strong hold on the Nigerian public. Why?
Our research shows what valuable followers fume about.
There is little language for sex acts that aren’t going all the way, the full shebang, doing it…
We fall for people based on appearance, kindness and wealth. It’s not as simple as removing one part of the equation.
A woman’s right to use fillers and have plastic surgery was a topic of discussion on the show after a male contestant alluded that he found women who used such enhancements ‘fake’.
It’s not just the drama that gets people to tune in every night
Sang celebrates self-deprecation and negative emotions, its followers catapulted the unlikely and unenthusiastic singer to the finale of a Chinese boy band show.
Instead of feeling ashamed about our guilty pleasures, it is time to understand how they really work
In the 13 years the show has been on the air, the Kardashians have become a cultural juggernaut shaping culture as we know it.
Television shows about police often perpetuate false narratives about violent crime that excuse police violence.
A landmark ruling that ordered the Seven Network pay a reality TV star compensation could have far-reaching implications for other productions and workplaces.
Dirty Dancing’s dance sequences are stand-alone properties, famous in their own right. But when they’re considered in isolation, the film’s messy class, race and gender politics are sidelined.
What started as a showcase for America’s drag queens is fast becoming a global sensation.
Matt Agnew is on the hunt for love as star of the new Bachelor Australia series. But whoever he picks (and he already has, apparently) will have to compete with TESS. So who, or what, is TESS?
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Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies, Adelaide University
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