Reality TV

The Work of Being Watched

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Mark Andrejevic

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Paperback / softback

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Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture

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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.

Author Biography:

Mark Andrejevic is assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Iowa.

Release date Australia

October 7th, 2003

Author

Mark Andrejevic

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

264

Series

Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture

Dimensions

156x230x20

ISBN-13

9780742527485

Product ID

2104608

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