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The Work of Being Watched
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Artikel-Nr:
9780585482903
Veröffentl:
2004
Seiten:
272
Autor:
Mark Andrejevic
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
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.
Chapter 1 1 Between the New Medium and the Old
Chapter 2 2 The Promise of the Digital Revolution
Chapter 3 3 Rediscovering Reality
Chapter 5 4 The Kinder, Gentler Gaze of Big Brother
Chapter 6 5 Access to the Real
Chapter 7 6 It's All About the Experience
Chapter 8 7 Reality TV and Voyeurism
Chapter 9 8 Survivor and Uncanny Capitalism
Chapter 10 Bibliography