The Popularity of Reality Shows Among Young People
In the modern society the mass media has an enormous effect and therefore impact on various aspects of private and public life. The media (especially television) has become an important type of leisurely activity and entertainment in our lives. Television heroes stormed into our lives like new best friends. We talk about them all the time and we try to be and act more like them every passing minute. We are constantly surrounded with different media images and messages. Within one hour of television viewing, we can be faced with more “images” than a man in pre-industrial time has been all his life. The question lies in how to accept and manage all these “images”. We have to learn that what we see on television is not reality, it is just a mere spectacle.
REALITY SHOWS
The reality television phenomenon did not come to our television screens suddenly. It has been developing for almost sixty years. The start of including ordinary people in television began with a show called “Candid camera” in 1948, and since then the idea of documenting different people and their lives grew bigger and bigger. The actual start of reality television, which became the matrix for all future reality shows, dates back to 1973 when the U.S. television station PBS introduced An American Family, which showed a nuclear family going through a divorce. From then on we have all kinds of reality shows that have been very successful and still are. Although reality television has existed in some form or another since the early years of television (primarily with game shows), the term reality television is most commonly used to describe programs of this genre produced since 2000.
We can recognize a reality show by its use of unprofessional actors, non-written dialogs, different situations are recorded by a hand camera and they are shown as they occurred in real life. Reality television tries to make the show as interesting as possible, by placing participants in exotic locations or in stressful
REALITY SHOWS
The reality television phenomenon did not come to our television screens suddenly. It has been developing for almost sixty years. The start of including ordinary people in television began with a show called “Candid camera” in 1948, and since then the idea of documenting different people and their lives grew bigger and bigger. The actual start of reality television, which became the matrix for all future reality shows, dates back to 1973 when the U.S. television station PBS introduced An American Family, which showed a nuclear family going through a divorce. From then on we have all kinds of reality shows that have been very successful and still are. Although reality television has existed in some form or another since the early years of television (primarily with game shows), the term reality television is most commonly used to describe programs of this genre produced since 2000.
We can recognize a reality show by its use of unprofessional actors, non-written dialogs, different situations are recorded by a hand camera and they are shown as they occurred in real life. Reality television tries to make the show as interesting as possible, by placing participants in exotic locations or in stressful