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Reality TV - The Work of Being Watched (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,247
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Reality TV - The Work of Being Watched (Paperback): Mark Andrejevic

Reality TV - The Work of Being Watched (Paperback)

Mark Andrejevic

Series: 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.

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Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin: United States
Series: Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
Release date: October 2003
First published: September 2003
Authors: Mark Andrejevic
Dimensions: 230 x 156 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-2748-5
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Television
Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies
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LSN: 0-7425-2748-4
Barcode: 9780742527485

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