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The Twinstitute – An interesting example of the experimental method

Karl Thompson / January 20, 2020

The Twinstitue on BBC2 usefully demonstrates some of the strengths and limitations of ‘laboratory’ experiments. The series subjects a number […]

Karl Thompson / February 8, 2018

In case you’ve been living in the dark-ages and missed it (like me) Hunted is a T.V. show in which

Karl Thompson / December 22, 2017

Reverend Billy and The church of stop shopping are critical of our addiction to shopping – especially at Christmas. They

Karl Thompson / December 15, 2017

I’ve blogged about how Mary Berry’s uses her middle class cultural capital to maintain the class-order through demonising working class

Karl Thompson / October 27, 2017

In this Channel 5 series, one family in the ‘wealthiest 10%’ of Britain swap lives for a week with a

Karl Thompson / October 13, 2017

Louis Theroux documentaries are a great example of ‘postmodern’ research methods. I say this for the following reasons: A brief

Karl Thompson / September 8, 2017

Meet the Natives involves five people from a tropical island visiting a ‘strange land called England’, where they find many

There have been a lot of T.V. productions which have run ‘social experiments’ in recent years. This post simply outlines