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More social action news: Collaborating for positive messages for girls3 comments

Erin wrote 6 days ago: The sexy Merida transformation sparked outrage, and now it has sparked something positive. Activists … more →

Tags: gender stereotyping, girls and women in media, marketing to children, Media Literacy, Media Policy, Positive Media, sexualization of children, Social Action

Do we need princesses?

mybigfatgaycat wrote 3 weeks ago:  Max says:  Mice are for eating, not for eating with. Although I have never been a fan of the Rat wh … more →

Disney turns the heroine Merida into a sexy babe, sparks outrage 1 comment

Erin wrote 1 month ago: The big news this week: Disney makeover of the brave and tough Merida into sexy vamp provokes outrag … more →

Tags: girls and women in media, sexualization of children, marketing to children, Health Issues, Mental Health Issues

'Mass Unemployment, factory closures, communities destroyed – this is her legacy.'

Andy Von Pip wrote 2 months ago: Morrissey : She was “barbaric” and “without an atom of humanity”, adding tha … more →

Tags: humour, BBC, david stubbs, Ding Dong The Witch is Dead, ken loach, Labour, Margaret Thatcher, martin rossiter, Morrissey

Living in NYC: Has it been Disneyfied?

onechicklette wrote 2 months ago: There will always be complaints about New York City: that it’s too gritty, that is too cleaned … more →

Tags: NYC, NYC, Real Estate, New York City, Brooklyn, Subway, Disney, graffiti, Coney Island

On bookish influences 1 comment

georgipaech wrote 2 months ago: Parents are funny things (and grandparents too). Take Winnie-the-Pooh, for example. It have written … more →

Tags: The books in 'the Book'., My Favourites, Books, Children's Books, children's classics, Winnie the Pooh, Disney, A. A. Milne, Parents

Disneyfication and Heritage

David Gill wrote 3 months ago: Dr Simon Thurley of English Heritage was speaking on Heritage and his views of “Disneyfication … more →

Tags: English Heritage, simon thurley, BBC

Darth Mickey Vader

2W2N wrote 7 months ago: Courtesy of Stargazer95050/Flickr. Thanks to Lefty Limbo for the link. … more →

Tags: star wars

DISNEYLAND4 comments

jiep90 wrote 8 months ago: Disneyland http://disneyfication.wikispaces.com             When talking and reading about post mode … more →

Tags: Consumer society, Hollywood, Postmodernism, Disneyland, hyperreality

Grandmother Witch1 comment

nalawalla wrote 8 months ago: The following words are dedicated to the scholar Silvia Federici, and cultural medicine-man Martin P … more →

Tags: Minstrels and Terrorists, Halloween, witch hunt, minstrel, minstrelization, capitalism, white privilege

I am Mommy Blogger: Hear Me Sell2 comments

Janice wrote 10 months ago: “No pink for my child!” said my sister Sondra before her baby shower. “OK OK” I said. And this was j … more →

Tags: Marketing, advertising, Branding, Product Placement, Consumer Behavior, Mommy blogger, Mommy Marketing, Blogging, marketing to parents

'Disneyfication'5 comments

courtc28 wrote 10 months ago: Peter Steven (2003:37) said, “The dominant media have the power to set political agendas and s … more →

Tags: Globalisation, global village, Modernity, Culture, Disney, global media, media, global media empire, Empire

What's Newly Old In Park Slope?

GrayFoxDown wrote 11 months ago: Here in Park Slope (Brooklyn) residents cherish their brownstones. They love the atmosphere of vogui … more →

Tags: Sketches, Scene in NYC, Brooklyn, park slope, Brownstone, victorian era

The Disneyfication of Disneyland3 comments

Robert Paul Gmelin wrote 12 months ago: I admit it, I’m a Disneyland junkie.  I’ve been going there as long as I can remember, at least as f … more →

Tags: Disneyland, main street, Frontierland, Tomorrowland, adventureland, Fantasyland, Pirates of the Carribean, pixar, Disney

Hemingway Hotels ?

Brian D. Butler wrote 1 year ago: It seems that the entrepreneurial minions who manage Ernest Hemingway’s estate have entered into an … more →

Tags: Paris, Venice, Ernest Hemingway, havana, Hemingway, hemingway hotel

Reading List: Disney Princess Week

Erin wrote 1 year ago: Surely National Princess Week deserves to be the impetus for a reading list. Photo: Rebecca Hains  R … more →

Tags: boys and men in media, gender stereotyping

"Stand alone" - Concrete architecture1 comment

Rachel wrote 1 year ago: There is something about the simplicity of concrete…the shell foundations and basic structure … more →

Tags: Travels, Architecture, Beijing, Architecture 2, Disneyland, the Great Wall, Concrete, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei

Stop attacking the National Trust

Two Scones and a Milkshake wrote 1 year ago: I happened upon an article last week on twitter that was posted by a friend of mine (View the articl … more →

Tags: Thoughts, National Trust, historic houses, camping it up, Article, British

Resorts World Sentosa Malaysian Food Street and Genesis 12-50

pilgrim wrote 1 year ago: Resorts World Sentosa was quite right to site the Malaysian Food Street right next to Universal Stud … more →

Tags: Genesis, malaysian, sentosa, Retro, vintage, Malaysian Food Street, Resorts World Sentosa, simulacra, hyperreal


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