Male+and+Female+Stereotypes+in+ICarly,+Sasha+White

How is sexuality and sexual tension used in ICarly and how does this affect viewers?
 * Research Question:**

a) Content analysis: I would like to examine a number of episodes and take note of the instances where sexuality and sexual tension are apparent. This will help me identify which characters are used to display this, how they display it and most importantly, why.
 * Methods:**

b) Research: I will also use the Girls Rule chapter from Banet-Weiser's book to see what she says about sexuality and women on Nickelodeon. I will also look at outside sources to find information on why sexuality is used in childrens television, to find opinions on the negative and positive sides of this, and to see if there is any research on how this can affect viewers of certain age groups.

- I expect to find lots of sexual tension between the characters of the cast as they are meant to portray pre-teens who often have to grapple with learning about sexuality. I also think I will find random instances of sexuality that are put in to appeal to a certain audience and may not necessarily relate to any long-term character building (for example the hot girls dancing around the car in the music video episode, this was more of a gratuitous sexuality).
 * Expectations:**

- In my research I expect to find some very differing opinions of use sexuality in children's tv programming. I think some will believe it is beneficial to help adolescents start to understand their own sexual lives and can be positive in spreading important messages to them. I think there will be others saying that there is no place for sexuality in children's television as they are like sponges and it could encourage sexual behavior in younger, immature children.

Terrific project here-- this is an important and complex topic and careful documentation of "sexual tension" and how it is depicted verbally and visually in the episodes -- this content analysis could reveal some important values messages that are part of the show. You have the green light!