1. Angela Alkas April 23, 2012 RWS 90 Professor Lemaster Analysis of Diana Kendall’s article: “Framing Class, Vicarious Living, and Conspicuous Consumption”

2. Author’s Project

3. “The media do not simply mirror society; rather, they help to shape it and to create cultural perceptions”(331) Terrorist >>> Immigrant >>> Drug Dealers >>> Hard Working >>>

4. “Reality shows like American Idol, The billionaire, For Love or Money, and the Apprentice suggests that anyone can move up on the social ladder” (333)

5. “Although some media framers show that rich and famous in a negative manner, they still glorify the material possessions and lifestyles of the upper class” (333)

6. “Equality does not exist in contemporary society but media audiences are encouraged to view themselves as having an “equal right” to purchase items that somehow will make them equal” (332)

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