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High school is regularly depicted through television shows as a formative time in life that helps build a person’s sense of identity. The many clichéd stereotypes that come to populate the landscape of television, aimed at teen viewers, illustrates a environment where people are measured by a singular attribute, i.e., the jock, the nerd, the stoner, the artist, etc.
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Guitar, J. (2015). Glee Goes Gaga. In: Johnson, B.C., Faill, D.K. (eds) Glee and New Directions for Social Change. Youth, Media, & Culture Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-905-0_4
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