Civic Education with The Simpsons.

Autor/inn/en	Wehner, Michael; Reinkunz, Sebastian; Flory, Isabel
Titel	Civic Education with The Simpsons.
Quelle	In: Journal of social science education, 7/8 (2008) 2/1, S. 86-97Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Anmerkung
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1439-6246; 1618-5293
DOI	10.4119/UNIBI/jsse-v7-i2-1070
Schlagwörter	Staatsbürgerliche Erziehung; Empirische Untersuchung; Fernsehserie; Mediengesellschaft; Zeichentrickfilm; Politik; Politische Bildung; Wahl; Wahlkampf; Deutschland; USA
Abstract	Impudent, disrespectful and packed with slapstick comedy - this is the most prominent and most controversial cartoon family in TV history: The Simpsons. Critics complain about the decay of manners and the offensive humor of the show. There is considerable potential for civic education in the yellow universe of The Simpsons, however. On the basis of three Simpsons-episodes this article analyzes the depiction of elections and electoral races in a media democracy. This analysis aims at extracting critical positions from the satiric presentation of debates, media events and political rhetoric and connecting them to real campaigns in Germany and the USA. The examples are supposed to illustrate that The Simpsons do provide critical access to understanding campaigns in media societies - despite all satiric exaggeration of real events. Furthermore, the article shows that the series does not only comment critically on almost any event of social relevance, but also, more importantly, how we can make these comments work in civic education (Original übernommen - Verlag).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main (extern)
Update	2009/4