On cerebral celebrity and reality TV: Subjectivity in times of brain scans and psychotainment

Configurations

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 259-283

  Vos, Jan De ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ECONOMICS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; HISTORY; LEISURE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TELEVISION;

BRAIN; BRAIN WAVES; CONSCIOUSNESS; CULTURE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; LEISURE ACTIVITIES; TELEVISION;

EID: 79251554136     PISSN: 10631801     EISSN: 10806520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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