Monday, March 26, 2012

MTV's Teen Mom Website

http://www.mtv.com/shows/teen_mom/season_3/series.jhtml

This website is the homepage for MTV's Teen Mom, now on its third season. The site includes links to full episodes, clips, after show follow ups, photos, and songs from the episodes. Beneath these links related to the show is the "Highlights" section, which includes summaries of and links to resources such as Get Help Now and Stayteen.org. There are also links to the show blog, Teen Mom on Facebook, and other related MTV sites.

What do you think the interface is implicitly suggesting about this website's central themes, values, or identity and why? Does this website seem to have any effect on people's knowledge, values, ideas, etc.?

I'm specifically thinking about prompt 1 here, but feel free to also click on one of the links and comment on that as well. The blog posts on the right side are particularly interesting to think about how the commenters are interacting and what their comments might reflect about the community's values.

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