Reality TV: the work of being watched

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 real...

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1. Verfasser: Andrejevic, Mark 1964- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lanham, Md. [u.a.] Rowman & Littlefield 2003
Schriftenreihe:Critical media studies
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Zusammenfassung: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 democratisation
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:X, 253 S.
ISBN:0742527476
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