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Publication Date: 2012
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Media as Nexus of Practice: Remaking Identities in "What Not to Wear"
Wohlwend, Karen E.; Medina, Carmen L.
Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, v33 n4 p545-560 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 television program--"What Not to Wear" (WNTW)--as an embodied lesson that produces identity revision but also disjunctures and slippages that enable critical responses and productive remakings. WNTW is a dramatization of remediation of one woman's (portrayed) lived practices and clothing choices which are read on her body as personal expression of fashion trends. These globalized lessons with body texts require new ways of reading and responding that allow learners/viewers to see the power relations that construct particular identity performances as errors and cultural practices and ethnicities as unacceptable. (Contains 2 tables and 1 note.)
Descriptors: Television, Popular Culture, Mass Media Role, Clothing, Decision Making Skills, Selection, Social Influences, Negative Attitudes, Self Concept, Identification, Power Structure
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Education Level: Adult Education
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Language: English
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