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“ real”ity television. English 197: January 30 2012. “…digital technology is an unmistakable presence in everyday life and is increasingly inextricable from mainstream social needs and conventions .”. Why?.
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“real”ity television English 197: January 30 2012
“…digital technology is an unmistakable presence in everyday life and is increasingly inextricable from mainstream social needs and conventions.”
Why? • We are aware that reality TV isn’t so “real,” yet we gain satisfaction from this false reality. • As much as we tell ourselves that it this reality is false, we geuninely react to situations and treat it like it is real. • Why is it so addicting to religiously keep up with these television shows? • Why is falsely advertised as being real? • How is our society affected by these misinterpretations?
Shahs of sunset “…instead of immediate, lived experience, the contemporary subject relies on the immediated real, a condition in which mediation is a given and life becomes a form of performance, constantly lived in a culture of exposure in exchange for self-affirming feedback.”
It’s interesting how fully aware our society is of the falsifications presented in these shows, yet now we can point out a “guido” or when we hear someone is Italian we associate them with fist-pumping and “GTL.” • This immediated reality that we live in is taking over our lives more than we can realize.