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Wohlwend, Karen E.; Medina, Carmen L. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2012
In this conceptual piece, we examine media as a nexus of a traditional schooling pedagogy and performance pedagogy to make visible how their overlapping elements produce media's pervasive educative force but also to gain a deeper understanding of the complexities of using media in educational contexts. Nexus analysis examines a fashion makeover…
Descriptors: Television, Popular Culture, Mass Media Role, Clothing
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Ling, I-Ling – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2008
This article explores how an attribution model will illustrate uniqueness-seeking behavior in dressing in the Taiwanese adolescent subculture. The study employed 443 senior high school students. Results show that the tendency of uniqueness-seeking behavior in dressing is moderate. However, using cluster analysis to segment the counterconformity…
Descriptors: Social Influences, Adolescents, Multivariate Analysis, High School Students
Kelly, Deirdre M. – Canadian Journal of Education, 2006
Drawing on several ethnographies with youth participants, I identified and critiqued three frames that help to comprise the mainstream media's larger framework of troubled and troubling youth: inner-city youth as "gang bangers"; teen mothers as "children having children" and "welfare bums"; and girls as fashion obsessed and impressionable. I …
Descriptors: News Media, News Reporting, Mass Media Effects, Ethnography