Media and Aging Theme Week [March 23-27, 2009]

This week’s In Media Res line-up:

Monday, March 23, 2009 – Caja Thimm (University of Bonn) presents: “Advertising and the Older Generation: Humerous or Degrading?”

Tuesday, March 24, 2009 – Yan Bing Zhang (University of Kansas) presents: “Media Portrayal of the Chinese Cultural Norm of Filial Piety in A Chinese Magazine Targeted at the Older Population”

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 – Melissa Aleman (James Madison University) presents: “Behind the Laughter Curtain: Image(in)ing Later Life Marriage through Comedy”

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 – Jaye Atkinson (Georgia State University) presents: “Aging in the Media: When Bad Things Happen to Good People”

Thursday, March 26, 2009 – Margot van der Goot (Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands) presents: “Getting rid of the idea that older adults are television addicts”

Friday, March 27, 2009 – Mei-Chen Lin (Kent University) presents: “Are you on Facebook? Seniors and new technology”