Reality TV: The Work of Being Watched : The Work of Being Watched (Critical Media Studies)

Reality TV: The Work of Being Watched : The Work of Being Watched (Critical Media Studies)

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Drawing on cultural theory and interviews with fans, cast members, and producers, this book places the reality TV trend within a broader social context, tracing its relationship to the development of a digitally enhanced, surveillance-based interactive economy and to a savvy mistrust of mediated reality in general. Surveying several successful reality-TV formats, the book links the rehabilitation of Big Brother to the increasingly important economic role played by the work of being watched. The author enlists critical social theory to examine how the appeal of the real is deployed as a pervasive but false promise of democratization.

Reality TV: The Work of Being Watched : The Work of Being Watched (Critical Media Studies),Mark Andrejevic,Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.,0742527484,Media Studies,Performing Arts/Dance,Reality television programs,Social Science,Social aspects,Sociology,Television - General,Television broadcasting,Performing Arts / Mass Media,Television

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