Nickelodeon+and+Girl+Power+Programming+(pg.+121-124)+,+Blake+Neal

In this particular section of the book, it deals with the issue of Nickelodeon and girl power programming. In the first paragraph of this section, Weiser goes on to discuss how the ideological themes that are represented in shows such as //Clarissa Explains It All// and //As Told By Ginger//, who tend to d**epict the women in these shows as strong, independent and somewhat rebellious** “are situated in relation to normative definitions of girls as obedient and docile-even as these 'resistant' themes are marketed as a particular kind of product” as she says in her own words. Then she goes into detail about how a commercial that came on during an episode of //As Told By Ginger// depicted a animated group of middle school girls who looked to be the same age as the those in the original television program, which she said was a clear ad of “girl power”, which showed the girls playing with a Barbie-like doll that was dressed in sporty clothes that came with a skateboard or a radio. Then Weiser went on to make a statement saying “Nickelodeon will not accept explicitly violent advertising but apparently has no problem accepting sexist ads that run counter to the kinds of values the network promotes in 'girl power' shows”, branching off of the Barbie commercial she was talking about. Weiser then brings up the issue of the Spice Girls and how they were thought to be “inauthentic” by critics, she explains how a woman named Catherine Driscoll, who was doing studies on adolescent girl culture, proposed the question “Can feminism be a mass-produced, globally distributed product, and can merchandised relations to girls be authentic?”. So going off of that question, Weiser believes that Nickelodeon was the answer to that complex question Driscoll proposed because she feels that Nickelodeon created a new niche in television programming because of the way it led to the creation of both girl-powered and girl-centered shows. With the creation of this genre of television, Weiser feels that the fact that these **girl-centered shows allows Nickelodeon to “stand out”, but not alienate boy viewers** either is the formula to the success Nickelodeon has seen with girl-powering television.

Good effort to identify key ideas here. I think the issue of mass-marketing and authenticity is a complicated and important issue. But you haven't quite mastered the precis format. A precis doesn't use direct quotes from the original source and it doesn't identify the author in constructions as the ones I've marked in red.

GRADE: B