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“CODA” wins best picture, Will Smith wins best actor and Chris Rock gets slapped at the 94th Academy Awards
2022 Oscars Recap
... it was an unscripted, heated confrontation between best-actor winner Will Smith and comedian Chris Rock that put a shocking twist on a now infamous 94th Academy Awards.
Poppin’ TUMS Like It’s Candy: A Look Into the “Hot Girls Have Stomach Issues” Trend
Trend Story
Are you constipated? Well, you’re probably not the only one. And hey, it's trendy! Talking about gut health and stomach problems has popped off this year on ...
How Fox News and CNN Negotiate the News: The Spectacle of Sensationalized News about Climate Change
The ideological negotiation of news has fundamentally redefined traditional practices of truthful, objective issue deliberation in the contemporary media sphere ...
Mothering with a Twist: The Representation of Motherhood and the Aberrant Mother in Dead to Me
To construct a more robust audience reading of the fictional maternal role, then, a thorough analysis of the changing maternal reality and standards of mothering is necessary as a first step.
The Carbon Cost is a Latte.
Coffee: A Starbucks Analysis
Consuming coffee to satisfy immediate satiety and taste preferences is a common reality in consumer culture and one that significantly undervalues the complex processes involved in its production and commercialization for mass consumption. With the purchase of every cup, consumers strengthen dependency....
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Giacomo Gianniotti on Finding Creativity Amidst Idle Time
Celebrity Profile
From saving lives on screen to trying his hand at directing, Italian Canadian actor Giacomo Gianniotti inspired a vision to write Italy into the script of CTV’s Grey’s Anatomy.
Sicilian Brodo
Memoir
When a meal evokes a memory time and time again, you write a memoir — cherishing and appreciating the tastes that bring you back to the time, place and headspace that first showed you the important crossroad between that food and a memory of the people you love.
Contamination Via Fake News: Celebrity Ethos and the Spread of Misinformation on Social Media
On social media, a façade of subjective opinion and information neutrality is masked behind a notion of deliberative freedom...
Are you #thatgirl? Diet Culture, Food Trends, and the Obsessive Aestheticization of Health and Happiness Online​
From food trends and diet culture myths to obsessive expectations about body size, shape and caloric consumption, the digital media landscape has become a hub for normalizing streamlined assumptions about and one-size-fits-all approaches to achieving ‘ultimate’ health and happiness.
Gender Bias and Linguistic Sexism in the English Pronoun System
Can words be biased in and of themselves? Or do they require some connotative value to signify their meaning relative to a society, a context and/or time frame? ...
Women in Television: From Running Households to Running Businesses
Television’s historical narrowcasting towards an unambiguous, predominantly male, niche demonstrates the industry’s ability to create gendered spaces and influence hegemonic viewing experiences...
Celebrity Culture and Myths of Beauty on Instagram: A Rhetorical Analysis
In a world where filler, Botox and plastic surgery have gained ever-increasing popularity and profound influence in defining standards of ‘acceptable’ modern beauty, representations of natural beauty online are few and far between...
Culture and Mental Illness in Shutter Island: A Critical Lens to Pejorative Media Representations of Mental Illness
Trauma, delusions and hallucinations affect Teddy’s ability to clearly distinguish fantasy from reality. In denial of murdering his wife Dolores, Teddy manufactures a fictive reality wherein he plays the hero searching for his wife’s killer ...
