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

Andrejevic, Mark

 
9780742527485: Reality TV: The Work of Being Watched (Critical Media Studies)

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

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

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9780742527478: Reality TV: The Work of Being Watched

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0742527476 ISBN 13 :  9780742527478
Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 2003
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