Natasha Patterson
Biographic Data
| ID | 6600491 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Natasha Patterson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Natasha |
| FAMILY NAME | Patterson |
| SIGNATURE | PATTERSON N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simon Fraser University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Representations of care labour on Lifetime’s UnReal
UnREAL (2015–present) quietly premiered on June 1, 2015 on the Lifetime network and quickly grew in popularity due to positive word-of-mouth and widespread praise from many TV critics. As Willa Pas
Emotional scholar-fandoms
This article analyses the research practice of interviewing media participants by critically reflecting on the process of interviewing former reality show contestants. I argue that interviewing was not a straightforward process but rather a deeply emotional one. The interview process complicated my scholar-fan identity, my feelings about the research process and my reality TV fandom. It was only through a process of self-reflexive analysis and re…
Gendering the Recession
Sabotaging Reality
It has been argued that reality TV competition shows mirror the contemporary neoliberal workplace by devaluing and exploiting the labour performed by contestants, especially work that is tied to the feminine, such as managing emotions. This study expands on these recent debates about gender, neoliberalism, and reality TV through the lens of the experiences of former show contestants. The author conducted semi-structured interviews with a small gr…
Reacting to Reality Television
Reacting to Reality Television: Performance, Audience and Value, by authors Beverley Skeggs and Helen Wood, makes a significant contribution to the current field of scholarly research on reality te
Emotional scholar-fandoms
This article analyses the research practice of interviewing media participants by critically reflecting on the process of interviewing former reality show contestants. I argue that interviewing was not a straightforward process but rather a deeply emotional one. The interview process complicated my scholar-fan identity, my feelings about the research process and my reality TV fandom. It was only through a process of self-reflexive analysis and re…
Reacting to Reality Television
Reacting to Reality Television: Performance, Audience and Value, by authors Beverley Skeggs and Helen Wood, makes a significant contribution to the current field of scholarly research on reality te
Gendering the Recession
Sabotaging Reality
It has been argued that reality TV competition shows mirror the contemporary neoliberal workplace by devaluing and exploiting the labour performed by contestants, especially work that is tied to the feminine, such as managing emotions. This study expands on these recent debates about gender, neoliberalism, and reality TV through the lens of the experiences of former show contestants. The author conducted semi-structured interviews with a small gr…
Emotional scholar-fandoms
This article analyses the research practice of interviewing media participants by critically reflecting on the process of interviewing former reality show contestants. I argue that interviewing was not a straightforward process but rather a deeply emotional one. The interview process complicated my scholar-fan identity, my feelings about the research process and my reality TV fandom. It was only through a process of self-reflexive analysis and re…
Representations of care labour on Lifetime’s UnReal
UnREAL (2015–present) quietly premiered on June 1, 2015 on the Lifetime network and quickly grew in popularity due to positive word-of-mouth and widespread praise from many TV critics. As Willa Pas
Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Advertising (2 works) · Business (2 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works)