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< | My premise is that the phenomenon of reality television betrays insight into the way we understand ourselves and each other, and I've got a few theories about what that insight might be. The most obvious problem, of course, is that we might not think there is anything meaningful about the rise in this type of programming - that its merely an accidental byproduct of network focus groups or the unfortunate habit of viewers to watch whatever happens to be on. I'm going to ask my reader to suspend that objection, and allow me to posit that *if* we can derive any meaningful conclusions from the popularity of reality tv, these are them. But that's a big 'if', and if I can't make a plausible claim that the phenomenon itself is meaningful - and I'm not sure I can - then my thesis is ultimately untenable. | | | | |
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> | Title | | | "For the actual 'real world', see Reality." - Wikipedia's entry on The Real World reality program. | |
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< | Guilty Pleasures
Devolution of Entertainment
Comedy and Tragedy | >
> | Introduction | | | The Meaning of Entertainment | |
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Escapism
Voyeurism | | | Exposé
Escapism
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Anagnorisis/Peripeteia
News as Entertainment
Guilty Pleasures
(D)evolution of Entertainment
Comedy and Tragedy
Celebrity Culture
Celebrity as a Causa Sui
The Truman Show and First Person Media
Pornography
Self-exposure for Profit
Commodifying the Human Experience
The Cultural Fire Sale
In 2006 Time Magazine named You it's "Person of the Year," declaring that we are all part of "a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It's about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people's network YouTube? and the online metropolis MySpace? ." The recognition of you, the average man, as the "Person of the Year" was, of course, an affirmation of the digital revolution; the advent of a new brand of culture, democratized by personal media. The new technologies that foster and facilitate our so-called digital revolution have done more than just expand the ways we communicate; they've discovered new, almost limitless possibilities for what and how we consume.
Division Between Labor and Leisure
Any activity can generate economic value, so long as it can be watched.
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-- JuliaS - 29 Mar 2008 | | | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQEBDoi5MyE
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Great video. I hadn't considered how pornography might fit in, but the more I do, the more supremely relevant it seems. Thanks a lot, Jesse!
-- JuliaS - 30 Mar 2008 | | |
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