{"id":2556,"date":"2019-06-26T17:25:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T16:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=2556"},"modified":"2019-06-27T14:28:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T13:28:42","slug":"kaitlyn-regehr-comments-on-love-island-in-inews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2019\/06\/26\/kaitlyn-regehr-comments-on-love-island-in-inews\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaitlyn Regehr comments on Love Island in iNews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/people\/academic-staff\/regehr.html\">Dr Kaitlyn Regehr<\/a>, Lecturer in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/arts\/media.html\">Media Studies<\/a>, featured in article published in <a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/\">iNews<\/a> this week, published on 25 June 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The article, entitled \u2018<em>Love Island<\/em> Shows How Men Use Female Sexuality to Increase Their Own Social Capital\u2019 and written by Ruchira Sharma, explores how the reality TV show demonstrates the way that some men use \u2018locker room talk\u2019 to boast about themselves and objectify women.<\/p>\n<p>The article cites a particular example from<em> Love Island<\/em>, where contestant Tom Walker bragged about his own conquests while belittling fellow contestant Maura Higgins.<\/p>\n<p>The piece draws upon Kaitlyn\u2019s expertise in digital and modern culture and its impact on gender.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I think this is very telling as it shows how normalised this behaviour is,\u2019 explains Kaitlyn in the article. \u2018The fact that he continued this banter while he knows she\u2019s there shows that it\u2019s not about her \u2013 it\u2019s about his own capital within this group of men.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>To read the full article, please see the page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/opinion\/love-island-2019-maura-higgins-tom-walker-what-happened-said-female-sexuality-social-capital\/\">https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/opinion\/love-island-2019-maura-higgins-tom-walker-what-happened-said-female-sexuality-social-capital\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Kaitlyn Regehr, Lecturer in Media Studies, featured in article published in iNews this week, published on 25 June 2019. The article, entitled \u2018Love Island &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2019\/06\/26\/kaitlyn-regehr-comments-on-love-island-in-inews\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":1701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[168423,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2556"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2560,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions\/2560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}