fishers, surfers and casters » Big Brother http://teusner.org ... exploring religion and culture in an online world Sat, 22 Oct 2011 12:36:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 BB08 on HDD http://teusner.org/2008/05/07/bb08-on-hdd/ http://teusner.org/2008/05/07/bb08-on-hdd/#comments Wed, 07 May 2008 02:55:02 +0000 paul http://teusner.org/?p=264 A few weeks ago my supervisor and I met with a couple of members of RMIT’s Globalism Institute (I think that’s what it’s called). We discussed the idea of hosting a conference in Melbourne next year with funds from the Fulbright Symposium. The theme of the conference, if it gets up and running, will be Religion, Ideology and Media. It’s a loose title, but can incorporate so many things.

The night before I had seen Channel Ten’s first “sneak peek” at the Big Brother 08 contestants. The first was an older woman who stated “I believe religion is the root of all evil”. It made me think, what is on Channel Ten’s agenda that leads them to make this statement the first utterance spoken publicly from any BB08 contestant? Mmmm, methinks therein lies a good starting point for a paper.

So I’m working on the abstract now. In the meantime my new life-partner, an HDD digital TV recorder who has stolen my heart, is collecting all episodes of BB08 for me, so I can maintain some sensibility in the household and don’t have to give in to my daughter’s constant pleads to watch the show. It also means I can just sit down one weekend and get the whole damn viewing thing out of the way.

Worst thing about doing research on Big Brother, it means you have to watch it.

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