1. The idea of the reality show Cochabamba is very interesting. It reminds me of a movie called The Truman Show (1998) with Jim Carrey where he is born and raised inside this dome and led to believe he was a normal person when in reality his family and friends were all just actors and that he has been the unknowing star of ‘The Truman Show’. However in Cochabamba almost nobody knows they are being filmed. The strategically placed cameras capture everyday events‚ but also catch some very interesting
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1940’s the television began to make its appearance on the scene allowing the public to view daily fiction shows‚ as well as news broadcasts and advertisements. Families began moving from big cities to the suburbs‚ where being in close vicinity is no longer needed because of the television. Defense technology and satellites began the beginning of the internet as a result of the Vietnam War in 1959. During the 1960s‚ the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) controlled radio and television
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Big bother: Why did that reality-tv show become such a phenomenon? By Toni Johnson-Woods. St Lucia‚ Qld: University of Queensland Press‚ 2002‚ pp. 256‚ A$19.95‚ paperback‚ ISBN 0702233153. In 2001‚ Australian audiences were the latest in a line of countries to experience the reality-tv programme Big Brother. As in other countries‚ the initial series of Big Brother in Australia attracted an enormous following. Toni-Johnson-Woods’ Big bother seeks to provide a revealing insight into the Big Brother
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Reality television is a massive hit in todays’ pop culture. Every Tuesday at ten o’clock on MTV‚ you will find up to three million viewers tuning in to watch the show Teen Mom‚ which is a spinoff of the reality show 16 and Pregnant that started in 2009. The girls on the show have volunteered themselves to put their lives on television and have people across the nation watch them struggle to survive as a teenager with a child right by their side. Today’s pop culture celebrates teen pregnancy by having
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inspired to write this book due to the fact that she participated in two reality television series‚ Laguna Beach and The Hills. The genre of this novel is young-adult literature. Jane Roberts and Scarlett Harp just graduated from high school and move to L.A. to begin an active new life style. Jane works for an event planner‚ Fiona Chen while Scarlett studies at the University of Southern California. A producer of an upcoming reality series came across the girls at Les Deux Nightclub and presented the
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Mirror Image Do you watch reality television? Did you know it impacts our daily lives as well? Most young girls‚ if not all young girls‚ grew up watching cartoons every Saturday morning. Weather it be “Power-puff Girls or good old classic “Dora the Explorer”‚ young girls have always watched cartoons and has influenced how they acted while they are growing up to adolescence. They wanted to be like the cartoon characters‚ and would imitate how those characters would act with their friends. The same
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TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 PURPOSE 1.2 DATA DESCRIPTION 2. BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO CHILD BEAUTY PAGEANTS AND TODDLERS & TIARAS 3. TELEVISION AND REALITY TV AS A MEDIUM 4. REALITY TV RESEARCH 4.1 MEDIA SPECTACLES 4.2 OBSCENITY OF TODDLERS AND TIARAS 4.3 USES AND GRATIFICATIONS THEORY 4.4 STUART HALL’S ENCODING-DECODING MODEL 5. METHOD 6. FINDINGS 7. SUMMARY OF THE FINDINGS 7.1 LIMITATIONS 8. CONCLUSION 2 2 2 3 4 5 5 7 9 10 11 13 29 31 31 33 ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT
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Popular culture is affected by American film and television show because it showcases an image of how Americans wants to perceives their own society’s values and dreams. It also reinforces stereotypes by only showing certain types of characters for their specific race‚ class‚ or gender. The effect it has includes how society views itself and what is acceptable whether the entertainment that is shown is positive and informative or crude and distasteful. Such behavior in the latter can be viewed through
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Chapter I Introduction Most children consume their time in front of the television screen for about three hours a day. The estimated number of hours that can be spent by an average child in watching television is 5‚000 by the time he/she enters first grade and the estimated number of hours by the end of high school is 25‚000---more than the time used for other necessary things like studying. Moreover‚ television has been a potent agency of communication and socialization since it provides the
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PART ONE As a local television Director‚ my main focus is on the local news and the issues that affect the community in which I live. I would choose to make the closing of the parks for three days my lead story and leave the celebrity death to the bigger networks. My first priority is to report news that affects the citizens of the community that I serve‚ even with the prospect of bigger ratings; I would feel an obligation to my audience to report issues that are more closely related to them. I
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