Negative Effects Of Reality Shows

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Reality TV is a television programming genre that records real life situations. These often come with a reward and are viewed for entertainment. The program being discussed is Dance Moms (2016) categorized in the competition drama. This report will discuss how real Dance Moms is through looking at the reality events and the editing.

I agree that entertainment has the capacity to ruin society. Entertainment is everywhere, and there are millions of people around the world every day who are influenced by entertainment. There are commercials and shows on TV, lots of music, radio commercials, comedians and actors, and video games, as well as many more forms of entertainment that reach millions of people daily. Wherever you look, there are bound to be people immersed in some form on entertainment, whether that be games on their cell phone, radio, or music. Since we are so reliant on entertainment to distract and captivate us, it is a reasonable statement to say that entertainment could run, and possibly ruin, society. There are multiple reasons for this to happen, such as having bad role models, spending too much money, and teaching

In the early 1960s Newton Minow, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and later, chairman of the board of PBS, once described television as a �vast wasteland.� He also said, �When television is good, nothing is better. When it 's bad, nothing is worse.�

There is not a minute in the day where a news broadcast is not being televised. For twenty-four hours, the same repetitive and monotonous information is delivered by different news anchors. Even though they report nothing new, Americans will still watch for hours upon hours. The large majority of these television broadcasts deliver stressful and generally upsetting news, but in no way, is this a deterrent to the viewer. The American obsession with spectatorship is a phenomenon created by the inaccessibility of timely and relevant knowledge. This oddly leads to an increase in the demand and likeability of terror. In her piece “Great to Watch”, Maggie Nelson explores the origins of this fascination with horror and gives an

Survivor has long been one of the most popular shows in the United States of America. Today, it enjoys an average viewership of upwards of 10 million per episode and often breaks 20 million for premieres and finales. With millions of dedicated viewers watching every week and a staggering 35 seasons under its belt, Survivor is showing no signs of slowing down, but do you know what goes on behind the scenes during the filming of each episode of the show?

The reality TV show “Bad Girls Club” is in fact a disguised psychological experiment because it unambiguously casts women who undeniably have psychological problems with the intention to watch how they violently interact with each other and because the show alters situations for a specified outcome. The participants of this experiment are psychologically unstable women who are labeled as “bad girls”. These neurotic women are placed in a house with other unstable women with the intentions of enduring constant conflict, arguments, and alliances. “Bad Girls Club” is systematized in a way in which features within the reality show are altered so that specific events are destined to occur for the hidden psychological experiments purpose. Factors such as these serve to represent how “Bad Girls Club” is a psychological

Entertainment is seen everywhere whether it 's reading a book or seeing a movie with friends. Entertainment can shape a society and many individuals include time for entertainment on a daily basis. Many people love entertainment and find it as mode of relaxation. The truth is that entertainment has the capacity to “ruin” society. The concept of entertainment in society has been growing and has the capacity to ruin the state of society while negatively influencing individuals.

According to Gilbert Seldes, “the greatest success of television has been triumphs of transmission, not of invention” (Sterne 503). The possibility that something might happen to disrupt the television’s everyday flow of information compels viewers to continue watching. The cable industry formerly recognized as, ‘Community Antenna Television’ originated during the 1940’s (Streeter 223). They aim to provide enhanced signal reception in remote areas, which was distributed on a coaxial cable network owned by AT&T throughout the fifties and sixties (226). Live television builds an audience by guaranteeing direct access to current affairs and providing accurate information. Television aims to be everywhere, it always has something to say, and serves to become the “electronic air we breathe” (Telotte 180). However, an audience’s underlying desire to watch television provides an escape into an endless void. Television foregrounds its capacity for liveness with its ability to transmit picture to sound instantaneously; however, it varies to a degree of immediacy, intimacy, and authenticity, all of which is built upon an ideological framework. Therefore, television relies on the illusion of liveness to maintain audience viewership; it emerges from a process of reification, and lastly these programs follow a distinct narrative format.

The main objectives in chapter 9 include the ways media attempt to influence people’s attitudes, beliefs, and/or behavior, ways media technology can be disruptive and have adverse effects on behavior, the positive and negative influences of certain kinds of media, such as advertisements or reality television programs, on self-image. Even though media is a great outlet, media has changed our generation causing effects on self-image and human interactions. Because of its pervasiveness in American culture, the media affects people in both obvious and subtle ways.

For example, on one of China’s most popular dating reality show, If You Are the One, a girl said to the boy that “I'd rather be sitting inside a BMW and crying than sitting on a bicycle and smiling” (Zhao, 2010). Similarly, on another dating show called Go for Love, a girl said that “Do not talk to me, unless you are rich” (Zhao, 2010). Since the two girls’ worship-money mentality was contradictory to Chinese traditional marriage values, audience were attracted by the shows. However, according to Kefan Cao, a Chinese television presenter, the girls were actresses and they were arranged by the directors of the dating shows. This shows that the dating shows were designed to strike the audience with controversial moral values such as “materialism, narcissism and discrimination against the poor among China’s younger generations” (Wang, 2016), so that they can make profits from commercial sponsors. Since the television shows make influences on people, their values conveyed in the programs also impact social morality. If the directors of television shows only focus on the entertaining functions of television programs to make profits, the public’s morality will have danger to be lowered

In her novel The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins shows that television plays a very important role in society. In The Hunger games, television was a massive part of life for the people living in Districts and for those in the capital. As we read we realize that by showing the hunger games as reality TV , Collins represents modern society and its consumption of reality TV. By depicting how television functions differently in the Capitol and the districts, and the characters' self-consciousness about being constantly viewed, Collins holds a mirror up to modern society and its culture of reality TV."

Reality TV has proven to be popular and influential amongst the populations of several nations but the reasoning behind it has yet to be concurred by sociologists. By utilizing symbolic interactionist perspective, functional analysis and conflict theory individuals can create reasoning behind why reality TV receives such positive response despite the deplorable deeds being presented.

In this world of advanced technology where people are connected to the internet like neurons are connected in a giant brain. The television has become the spotlight technology in today’s generation. Generation after generation people are evolving and getting more advanced, so has the way producers are using television as a source to persuade the audience. Especially, reality show directors use every information they possibly can about the contestants to make their show popular in the culture. The reality television impacts the world in a negative way. Reality television influences the culture by giving the young girls ' false expectations, stereotypes, and racism.

The quiz show scandal affected many of the people involved directly, and the television industry’s relationship with the American people. The only people who suffered any consequences were directly involved with the quiz shows, both the president of NBC and the sponser Geritol were not implicated in the scandal. The producer of the show, Dan Enright, received little consequence for his actions, and would go on to have a successful career until his death in May of 1994 (NY Times). Stempel finally proved his point, and “as the man who helped expose Charles Van Doren, the most famous quiz show contestant of all, Stempel earned a place in television history” (PBS). The lawyer, Richard Goodwin, also had a successful career, and wrote a memior on