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Why Reality TV Doesn’t Suck, and May Even Make Us Smarter

It’s easy to assume reality TV is the place where bad TV went to hide when the rest of TV got a lot better. Like that old Wild West town where criminals congregate, reality TV is often perceived as the...

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Why We Freak Out About Some Technologies but Not Others

There's often a side effect to new technologies: moral panic. Facebook causes narcissism! Texting is making us illiterate! But the funny thing is, other technologies don't provoke such alarm. What's...

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Voices From The Field | From Arrested Development to Dr. Who, How Binge...

Why do we binge watch? One way to answer this question is to say, well, we binge on TV for the same reason we binge on food. And these psychological factors are no doubt apt. But the anthropological...

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