Our SL session on 11/09/11 didn’t have as many community participants as usual. However, during your presentations, a few tweens who showed up briefly said that they didn’t follow reality TV shows that much, and when they do it, it’s mostly for entertainment purposes. Consider their claims, and answer the following:
1) Do you believe that pre-teens and teens do not, in general, follow reality TV shows?What different types of audiences, in your view, are targeted by different types of reality TV shows and why?
2) Assuming that most people who watch reality TV do it for pure entertainment purposes, what elements of enhancement of the mundane (next-step reality) would you see in a shows such as “Survivor” and “Jersey Shore”? Why?
3) Product placement is a common way of financing media content, including reality TV shows. What brands do you recall having seen in any reality TV show you watched recently (any example is OK, except the show “Keeping Up with the Kardashians”)? What kind of juxtapositions and associations that placement you noticed is trying to create for the brand shown in the program?
As usual, I expect that you combine your own views with explanations of relevant concepts or ideas covered in recent readings assignments or class discussions. Your reply to this prompt must be posted by Sunday, November 13, 11:00 p.m. Postings after that deadlines will not be graded.