Analysis Of The Collective Conscience Of Reality Television

A reality television show where cameras follow affluent women as they enjoy their lavish lifestyle in Orange County, California is depicted in Bravo’s The Real Housewives of Orange County. The American reality television series focuses on the personal and professional lives of several women living extravagantly wealthy lives mostly due to their wealthy husbands. Over the past 5 years the success of the innovative reality TV show has allowed for an expansion of several installments of The Real Housewives franchise into various regions, including Beverly Hills and New York. Viewers have been riveted by the fictionalized version of such lavish lifestyle on television, however, The Real Housewives series has evolved as one of the most controversial reality television shows aired due to its depiction of women. The Real Housewives of Orange County have manipulated the audience to believe their fictionalized depiction of reality and with this have created a negative representation of women through their representational casting strategies.

Objectification includes the perception that individuals can be treated as objects or tools. For instance, social media like the different social networking sites and other forms of media like commercials, and reality television treat women as objects to be used, for example to sell cars, to advertise different merchandise, even food. In Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s article “Kiki Kannibal: The Girl Who Played with Fire”, Erdely explains the drawbacks of creating an online image by focusing on the tough and harsh treatment that Kiki faced over the internet. In Rachel Kadish’s article “Who Is This Man, and Why Is He Screaming?” she states her concern in that “there is something dehumanizing in the spectacle of a young man’s face being carried on the wind like dust” as she debates the uncontainable spread of her cousin’s image. Finally, in her article “Ghetto Bitches, China Dolls, and Cha Cha Divas”, Jennifer Pozner reveals the ways in which she thinks reality television stars are manipulated and edited into extremely typecast images in a way that

While reading the journal Reality Bites: An Investigation of the Genre of Reality Television and Its Relationship to Viewers’ Body Image researchers utilized a unique methodological approach, this study investigated subtypes of reality television (RTV) to study the influence of exposure to RTV on body image (body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness) as compared a more traditional weekly report of RTV viewing. Young adults (N ¼ 472) completed online surveys measuring their exposure to Reality TV and perceptions of their own body image. Four types of RTV were uncovered. Regression analyses using these 4 factors demonstrated that exposure to competition-based RTV shows (e.g., Dancing with the Stars) predicted increased body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness. On the other hand, the weekly self-report of RTV viewing did not reveal any relationships between weekly exposure to RTV and body image. These findings underline the need for cultivation-based media studies that include program-based measures of genre-specific media exposure, especially when seeking to capture media effects related to RTV.

As of today, television has become one of the most popular sources for entertainment over the world. In our generation, reality tv have one of the highest rates on television; But have you ever wonder what type of impact this has on our generation? In fact, reality tv promote a dangerous stereotype in many different ways. For an example, the tv show “Jersey shore” give the Latin-American a bad image. In addition, others will have a bad perspective on how New Jersey is viewed to the world. Therefore, reality tv promotes a dangerous stereotype on cultures, genders and norms over the world.

One study has shown good responses to a reality program relating to cosmetic surgery. Results indicated that the participants viewed the program positively and endorsed the importance of physical attractiveness. They also believed the psychological benefits and entertainment value it can bring to the reality TV show (Charlotte N, 2012). This proves that physical appearance does

Reality show characters are often shown in embarrassing situations and their personal matters are publicized to the world. The research found that frequent viewers of reality TV highly value revenge, competition, and achieving status and prestige (Mendible, 2004, p. 336). Mendible further discussed reality television’s strategic use of humiliation as a form of entertainment to draw in viewers (Mendible, 2004). With constant exposure to media images, audiences may be influenced by the television show’s values and subliminal messages. People use reality television as an informational tool to “people watch” and observe what is socially acceptable or not (Tyree, 2011, p. 397). The problem with using television to observe and decipher social norms with is that reality shows are not actually based on real events.

An important issue, Wood addresses is how greatly mass communication has impacted our society. Wood explains, “How media represents and influences cultural values”. The media has skewed our society into idolizing infamous people while glamorizes vulgarity and materialism. A prime example of a controversial reality TV show that has risen to fame in my generation is Keeping Up With the Kardashians. The “ordinary” lives this family portrays are far from realistic compared to the average American. Their millions of followers on social media platforms have granted them immense influence upon viewing audiences. Taking advantage of their popularity, this family has taken every fame opportunity to monetize everything from Kim Kardashian’s famed sex

This essay will assess the debate on whether or not reality television is becoming more like a form of tabloidization; whether, reality TV has shifted from to entertaining the audience rather than educating the audience. John Corner believes that television has greatly expanded its range of images, depicting more of the ‘real’. He added that the shift in reality TV has employed factual programming, such as an increase in documentaries. On the other hand, Richard Kilborn believes that reality TV is a simulation of real life events through various forms of dramatic reconstruction… ’Documentaries can never be any more than a representation or an interpretation of events and issues in the real world’ (Kilborn, 5). Therefore, programs can be

In her 2014 The Atlantic column “ The Collective Conscience of Reality Television,” Serena Elavia argues, viewer ratings significant influence of what appears on reality TV shows leads to irrational behavior by reality stars as well as exploits and violates the privacy of these stars. Elavia begins my mentioning viewer likes and dislikes. She notes that viewers “avidly consume” the physical and verbal fights that are shown on TV, thus indicating producers and the network will continue to air unpleasant and rowdy scenes. Also commenting that if viewer ratings go up due to these violent clips and if the network does not face any lawsuits then episodes displaying violence will continue to be aired. Later, Elavia points out the backlash the network

The cultural phenomenon ‘Reality Television (TV)’ has become an increasingly popular genre of television since its paroxysm onto the airwaves in 1945. The term ‘Reality Television’ can be defined as the genre of entertainment that documents the lives of ‘ordinary’ individuals through the exhibition of allegedly unscripted real-life scenarios, despite inquisitive inquiries disclosing Reality TV to entail facets of script. The primary objective of Reality TV is purely to entertain the audience. This genre of television is appealing to viewers due to its entertainment principle/value, the audience’s competency to correlate to the characters and their situations, and the contingency it presents for escapism and voyeurism. We can capitalise the Australian appropriation of the American popular dating Reality TV show ‘The Bachelor’ as a tool to further comprehend the purpose and appeal of Reality television. The postulations of media’s obligations to society in contrast to their current actions and media as a mirror to society - the normative theory, can also be utilised as an implement to apprehend Reality TV. Through the strict analysis of ‘ The Bachelor’ and the employment of the normative theory, the purpose and appealing factor of Reality TV can be deeply examined.

Television executive Lauren Zalaznick, gave a presentation called “The conscience of television” for TED Talk which she discussed past five decades of the highest standing shows on air. Zalaznick runs studies which go to great lengths on how the topics of television shows changed from decade to decade and how viewers changed the reason of watching based on what was happening in the world. Television’s conscious effects our emotions, challenges our values, and influences our views on the world by what we choice to watch.

Reality TV is known as exciting entertainment because the audience never knew what will happen next as it is with no strings attached and even have the freedom of speech. Despite the entertainment it can bring, the content of reality shows are actually degrading the society. Our pop culture and civilization have been affected by the reality programs in a bad way. Indeed, reality TV is promoting bad social value to the

A. Media has a huge impact on how people truly see themselves, particularly in women and young female teens. Reality television has made the standards of beauty quite high these days and there is a definite change in society’s view on what is truly beautiful. Turning off the TV has simply become too hard when it comes to reality TV shows

Reality shows have become very popular in the last few years. Reality television shows document unscripted, spontaneous situations and actual occurrences, and usually feature publicly unknown cast. The cast members are from different backgrounds and cultures and have different mentalities. However, reality television is facing significant criticism in the last few years, the criticism has mostly centered on the use of the word "reality". Many people claim that these reality television shows are fake and do not present reality. Other criticisms include that they make stars out of untalented and infamous personalities and that they glamorize materialism and vulgarity.

Today’s audience grabs hold of reality TV now a day. Looking forward week to week to watch these unscripted real life situation shows. In a way it 's becoming increasingly hard to avoid not watching. Some viewers see the TV show and tend to be attention seekers, and reality TV allows them to fantasize about achieving status through instant fame. Too much reality TV may lead viewers to idealize real world situations, like romanticizing dating. Like when Truman saw the girl in the library who was an actress and a fan of the show. He wanted to take her out sometime later that week, but she said it couldn’t happen because she knows what’s going on, but she had true love for him and asked to go out with him right then on a little date to the beach. As they went to the beach she was going to spill the beans and tell him everything. Then a man of the show in a car drove there to stop her acting like her father to get her before she ruined the show. It’s like most reality TV love shows on today people who audition for a show and know it’s scripted, but end up actually having a real feeling for the person.