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   Getting Real with Reality TV, in USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education) » Read Now

   by Cynthia M. Frisby. 5 pgs.

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   Reality TV: More Mirror Than Window, in World and I » Read Now

   by Richard Breyer. 6 pgs.

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   Why America Loves Reality TV, in Psychology Today » Read Now

   by Steven Reiss, James Wiltz. 3 pgs.

   ...EVEN IF YOU DONT WATCH reality television, its becoming increasingly...Americans seem hooked on so-called reality television--programs in which ordinary...separated the...
   
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   Voyeur Nation: Media, Privacy, and Peering in Modern Culture ("From The Real World to Big Brother" begins on p. 34) » Read Now

   by Clay Calvert. 274 pgs.

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   Clay Calvert is an assistant professor of communications and law and co-director of the Pennsylvania Center for the First Amendment at the Pennsylvania State University.
   
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   Media Matrix: Sexing the New Reality (Chap. 2 "Big Brother: Peep Shows to Reality TV") » Read Now

   by Barbara Creed. 216 pgs.

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   "From Sex and the City to discussions of sexuality and the self, Breillat's film Romance to Harlequin romances, crisis TV to cyberporn, celebrity to censorship, Barbara Creed explores the effect of today's global media on contemporary ideas and experiences of sex, screen, identity and...

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   "From Sex and the City to discussions of sexuality and the self, Breillat's film Romance to Harlequin romances, crisis TV to cyberporn, celebrity to censorship, Barbara Creed explores the effect of today's global media on contemporary ideas and experiences of sex, screen, identity and representation. From the author of The Monstrous Feminine."

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   Commercial Culture: The Media System and the Public Interest ("The Unreality of 'Reality Television'" begins on p. 191) » Read Now

   by Leo Bogart. 384 pgs.

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   American mass media are the world's most diverse, rich and free. But their dazzling resources, variety, and influence cannot be rated by the envy they arouse in other countries. Their failures are commonly excused on the grounds that they are creatures of the market, that they give people what they...

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   American mass media are the world's most diverse, rich and free. But their dazzling resources, variety, and influence cannot be rated by the envy they arouse in other countries. Their failures are commonly excused on the grounds that they are creatures of the market, that they give people what they want. This book focusses not on the glories of the media, but on what is wrong with them and why, and how they may be made better. This powerful critique of American mass communications highlights four trends that together sound an urgent call for reform: the blurring of distinctions among traditional media and between individual and mass communication; the increasing concentration of media control in a disturbingly small number of powerful organizations; the shift from advertisers to consumers as the source of media revenues; and the growing confusion of information and entertainment, of the real and the imaginary. The future direction of the media, Bogart contends, should not be left to market forces alone. He shows how the public's appetite for media differs from other demands the market is left to satisfy because of how profoundly the media shapes the public's character and values. In conclusion, Bogart asserts that a world of new communications technology requires a coherent national media policy, respectful of the American tradition of free expression and subject to vigorous public scrutiny and debate. Commercial Culture is the most comprehensive analysis of the media as they evolve in a technological age. It will be of great appeal to general readers interested in mass communications, as well as professionals and scholars studying American mass media.

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   We're Here, We're Queer-and We're Better Than You: The Representational Superiority of Gay Men to Heterosexuals on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, in The Journal of Men's Studies » Read Now

   by Kylo-Patrick R. Hart. 13 pgs.

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   I Want My C-SPAN, in Federal Communications Law Journal » Read Now

   by Bruce W. Sanford. 3 pgs.

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   ...its demographics. C-SPAN is "reality TV" that even Minow would...about an enormous amount of television," Lamb replied in the 1999...news programming on network television...
   
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   The Search for Survivors: Surviving Hardship Outdoors Has Become a Popular Televised Amusement, but for a Psychologist Who Screens the Contestants for Reality TV Shows, Staying Alive in the Wilderness Was More Than Just a Game, in Psychology Today » Read Now

   by Michael Seeber. 4 pgs.

   ...turned into a television spectacle. The reality of the experiences...on most of the reality TV shows on CBS...breakdown on television, so Levak is...some of these reality...
   
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    Everyone's a Winner: As Big Brother Returns to Our Screens, the Gimmicks of Reality TV Are Being Used to Revive Public Interest in Politics. Is This the Ultimate Parody of Democracy?, in New Statesman » Read Now

    by Sam Breenton. 2 pgs.

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    ...community more like reality television. The BBC seems incapable...40odd years since television first decided a presidential...institution, the term "reality TV", always...