[Peace-discuss] Fw: [Mediamatters] Weekly Update for August 24, 2008

[Jenifer Cartwright]

One of things most disturbing to me about American culture -- and it's not just the media that's guilty of this. Should be a good show (archived, if you missed it, or any other of Bob's shows).
 --Jenifer








--- On Sat, 8/23/08, Andrew Ó Baoill <andrew at funferal.org> wrote:


Welcome to another edition of the WILL-AM Media Matters email update!

THIS WEEK'S GUEST
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This week our guest is Gigi Durham, author of The Lolita Effect: The  
Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It.  
Durham's work centers on media and the politics of the body, with an  
emphasis on gender, sexuality, race, and youth cultures. Her work has  
appeared in leading academic journals, including Critical Studies in  
Media Communication, Communication Theory, Journalism and Mass  
Communication Quarterly, and Women's Studies in Communication. She is  
the co-editor, with Douglas M. Kellner, of Media and Cultural Studies:  
KeyWorks.

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UPCOMING GUESTS
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Upcoming guests include Gigi Durham.

LAST WEEK'S SHOW
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Last week's guest was Dave Zirin. Zirin, Press Action's 2005 and 2006  
Sportswriter of the Year.

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