“Reality Bites Back” Author Jennifer Pozner to Speak as Part of Women’s History Month at Northeastern Illinois University

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“Reality Bites Back” Author Jennifer Pozner to Speak as Part of Women’s History Month at Northeastern Illinois University

Jennifer Pozner, founder and executive director of Women in Media and News (WIMN) and author of “Reality Bites Back: The Troubling Truth about Guilty Pleasure TV,” will speak as part of Northeastern Illinois University’s Women’s History Month. A widely published journalist, Pozner has appeared as a media commentator on NBC, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, ABC News Now, National Public Radio, and Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” and her freelance work has been published in media outlets such as Newsday, Chicago Tribune and the Boston Phoenix.
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call (773) 442-4550.

Monday, April 4 from 4:15 to 7 p.m.

Golden Eagles Room
Northeastern Illinois University
5500 N. St. Louis Ave. in Chicago
(Use campus entrance located at 3701 W. Bryn Mawr Ave.)

“Reality Bites Back” deconstructs reality television, demonstrating that far from harmless “guilty pleasures,” this genre has a damaging impact on our intellectual and political development. Pozner offers readers a new way of looking at the manipulative framing—and social ramifications—of their favorite shows, and blows the lid off the claim that unscripted programming simply portrays “real people” with “real emotions.” She reveals how producers, writers, editors, and embedded advertisers spin fictions out of whole cloth—and lays bare their ideological and commercial agendas.
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