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Anti-Social Networks? We're Just As Cliquey Online
Laura Sydell
2011
If you look at trending topics on Tuesday nights you might see hashtag — #TheGame. It’s a drama on BET about the lives of African-American pro-football players. Aikens watches and tweets The Game. He loves the show, he explains, because it looks beyond stereotypes of African-American athletes. That the show is still on the air today is thanks in part to its fans on Twitter. Back in 2009, when the CW network canceled The Game, angry tweets went out from the show’s loyal audience. Kyra Gaunt, a professor at the City University of New York’s Baruch College, says the Twitter conversation focused on the lack of good programming about African-American life — even on BET. Gaunt says BET heard the complaints and picked the show up.
“I think there’s a little bit of wishful, hopeful thinking,” Gaunt explains, “that something might turn a corner with the way that BET mediates images of black people. We don’t want a black version of MTV.”
The Game stayed on the air because…
it dealt with complicated issues surrounding racism.
loyal fans made people realize its popularity.
it was more popular than any other show.
it had the best ratings.
Laura Sydell
2011
If you look at trending topics on Tuesday nights you might see hashtag — #TheGame. It’s a drama on BET about the lives of African-American pro-football players. Aikens watches and tweets The Game. He loves the show, he explains, because it looks beyond stereotypes of African-American athletes. That the show is still on the air today is thanks in part to its fans on Twitter. Back in 2009, when the CW network canceled The Game, angry tweets went out from the show’s loyal audience. Kyra Gaunt, a professor at the City University of New York’s Baruch College, says the Twitter conversation focused on the lack of good programming about African-American life — even on BET. Gaunt says BET heard the complaints and picked the show up.
“I think there’s a little bit of wishful, hopeful thinking,” Gaunt explains, “that something might turn a corner with the way that BET mediates images of black people. We don’t want a black version of MTV.”
The Game stayed on the air because…
it dealt with complicated issues surrounding racism.
loyal fans made people realize its popularity.
it was more popular than any other show.
it had the best ratings.
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The Game stayed on the air because loyal fans made people realize its popularity. The show's audience actively participated in conversations on social media platforms like Twitter, expressing their dissatisfaction with its cancellation and advocating for its renewal, which ultimately led to BET picking it up.
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