Platform Authority on Prime Time: PBS’s Finding Your Roots and the Televisual Production of Genetic Truth
Published online on July 31, 2026
Abstract
Television & New Media, Ahead of Print.
Direct-to-consumer DNA testing has rendered family secrets newly visible through platforms that translate kinship into databases, laboratory-derived genetic profiles, algorithmic relative matching, and quantified displays. This article examines how PBS’s...
Direct-to-consumer DNA testing has rendered family secrets newly visible through platforms that translate kinship into databases, laboratory-derived genetic profiles, algorithmic relative matching, and quantified displays. This article examines how PBS’s...