Exposure to tobacco, alcohol and 'Junk food' content in reality TV programmes broadcast in the UK between August 2019-2020. [PDF]
Background Exposure to alcohol, tobacco and foods high in fat, sugar or salt (HFSS) content in media is a risk factor for smoking, alcohol use and HFSS consumption in young people. We report an analysis of tobacco, alcohol and HFSS content in a sample of
Barker AB, Bal J, Ruff L, Murray RL.
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In/Fertile Monsters: The Emancipatory Significance of Representations of Women on Infertility Reality TV. [PDF]
Reality TV is immensely popular, and various shows in this media genre involve a storyline of infertility and infertility treatment. Feminists argue that normative and constructed realities about infertility and infertility treatment, like those in ...
de Boer ML, Archetti C, Solbraekke KN.
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A content analysis of tobacco and alcohol audio-visual content in a sample of UK reality TV programmes. [PDF]
Background Exposure to tobacco and alcohol content in audio-visual media is a risk factor for smoking and alcohol use in young people. We report an analysis of tobacco and alcohol content, and estimates of population exposure to this content, in a sample
Barker AB +5 more
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Love Island, Social Media, and Sousveillance: New Pathways of Challenging Realism in Reality TV. [PDF]
This paper explores the changing nature of audience participation and active viewership in the context of Reality TV. Thanks to the ongoing rise of social media, fans of popular entertainment programmes continue to be engaged in new and innovative ways ...
L'Hoiry X.
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Negotiating Belonging as Cultural Proximity in the Process of Adapting Global Reality TV Formats
This article focuses on aspects of belonging the producers of reality TV programmes address in the staging of emotions. Based on interview statements by 12 experts from the field of national and international reality TV format production, we argue as ...
Laura Suna
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The Profit: Using reality TV to teach management theories and strategies
Instructors are constantly challenged to compete for student attention. The authors of this article discuss how they are stimulating their students using reality TV shows to teach management theories and strategies.
Bill Quain +2 more
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Embarrassing Realities: the Portrayal of Dentistry in Reality TV 'Dentertainment'
Background: Dentists are not common subjects within reality TV. When presented in film, the overall impression has been reported to be negative. The British reality TV show 'Embarrassing Bodies' includes within its format, cases where complex and ...
Alexander C. L. Holden +2 more
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A Platonic Critical Study of TV as a Poet [PDF]
The quarrel between Plato and the poets in the Utopia and try to exclude them from there is a very important subject in the Republic. He in the book III explains the limits for poems and determines the poems that can be read for youths and the poems that
Hassan Ahmadizadeh
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Elimination Games: The Global Rise of Military Reality TV and the Shaping of the Citizen Subject
The past decade has seen the global growth of military-style reality television programming. These programmes, produced by militaries themselves or through collaboration with the entertainment sector, have proven to be an effective and increasingly ...
S. Kaempf, Roger Stahl
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Gender Essentialism in Chinese Reality TV: A Case Study of You Are So Beautiful
This article provides a feminist analysis of Chinese reality TV, using the recent makeover show—You Are So Beautiful (你怎么这么好看) as a case study. I argue that the notion of gender essentialism is highlighted in the production of You Are So Beautiful, which
A. Y. Peng
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