Reality Television has become one of the most well-known and highly watched genres of television throughout the world. The website‚ Shocking Statistics reveals that more than 57% of all shows broadcasted on television have received the title of “Reality TV. This genre revolves around the idea of “unscripted” television allowing for casts members to do whatever they desire in front of the camera. While many of these shows provide entertainment or jobs to people‚ they also produce negative effects as well
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EFFECTS OF WATCHING TOO MUCH TV Humans welcome technological inventions and discoveries and the benefits they bring to people’s lives. This was the case when Wilhelm Roentgen discovered x-rays. Within five years‚ the British Army was using a mobile x-ray unit to locate bullets and shrapnel in wounded soldiers in the Sudan. TV was also invented with dreams of positive benefits for humanity – TV would make everyone global citizens. In addition‚ its global reach would provide providing educational
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While the TV industry might claim that they need to be revenue based to produce content‚ in other countries‚ for example‚ the BBC in the United Kingdom‚ public television that is funded by the government has proven to be successful. Americans are told that television
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and the official hero. Giving people a chance to glance through a mind of a serial killer‚ the TV show Dexter embodies many characteristics such as the healing myth‚ the outlaw hero‚ and the official hero increasing the amount of things people can relate to. However developed the myth is it still needs its archetypes in order for the story to feel more complete. To help Dexter along his quest the TV show contains the wise old man and the good mother archetypes. At a very early age Dexter witnessed
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MANILA‚ Philippines - Last Wednesday‚ I was invited to speak at a forum in Miriam College on the positive and negative sides of reality TV. Psychiatrist Randy Dellosa and reality TV host Paolo Abrera (of ?Hired?) were in the panel as well. Reality television‚ as defined by Wikipedia‚ is ?a genre of television programming which presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations‚ documents actual events‚ and features ordinary people instead of professional actors. Such shows frequently
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head dolls‚ shirts‚ water bottles‚ and even a book titled “Gym‚ Tanning‚ Laundry: The Official Jersey Shore Quote Book.” (“Jersey Shore”) So where did this idea of reality TV come from? How many kinds of different reality TV are out there and why is this is overwhelmingly popular? Topic 1: What is reality TV? Reality TV is any unscripted program that shows real people‚ not actors or athletes in a specific environment. Characters are real people Not filmed on a set but natural living or
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Reality TV is a genre of television programming in which actual occurrences and unscripted situations are depicted‚ usually using a cast that is previously unknown to the audience. Since the beginning of reality TV programming‚ believed to be in the 1940s‚ it has become an increasingly popular form of television programming that ultimately achieved worldwide success in the late twentieth/early twenty first century. (OSU‚ 2001) In this essay‚ a makeover reality TV show will be looked at with regard
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In “The Distorting Mirror of Reality TV” written by Sarah Coleman‚ says that the producers have a distorting mirror to us as viewers. All producers distort all stereotypes and want the viewers to know what life is really like because of human diversity. Coleman states that the producers choose particular contestants‚ and the producers are making the chosen contestants are playing particular characters that the producers want them to be Coleman states “For ethnic minorities‚ old people‚ the unbeautiful
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exposure to media in moderation‚ our children can benefit a lot from media culture. Key words: media violence; children; influence Hundreds of research studies over the past forty years have clearly shown that there is a strong relationship between viewing violence in television programs and movies and aggressive behavior of children‚ youth‚ and adults. However‚ it is really difficult to prove a direct connection between them. It is described like “watching rain fall on a pond and trying to figure
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