Kim Kardashian is an American television personality. Kardashian and her family star in an E! reality series called Keeping up with the Kardashians along with several spin-offs. She has used this stardom to help launch a variety of businesses in the fashion and beauty industry including a boutique clothing chain with her sisters Kourtney Kardashian and Khloé Kardashian Odom called D-A-S-H and a perfume line.
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Reality television has been a claim to fame for many black women over the last decade but not in a good way.
Reality TV attracts far more female viewers than males, and the shows are profitable for
the networks because they're cheap to produce and draw large, young audiences, says
Brad Adgate, the senior vice president of research at Horizon Media. Most reality shows —
such as "The Bachelor," "Teen Mom," "Real Houswives" or "Keeping up with the Kardashians"
— are geared to women. MTV's audience is 65 percent female, "The reality shows that
demean women, or
Brad Adgate, the senior vice president of research at Horizon Media. Most reality shows —
such as "The Bachelor," "Teen Mom," "Real Houswives" or "Keeping up with the Kardashians"
— are geared to women. MTV's audience is 65 percent female, "The reality shows that
demean women, or
where they're obsessed with beauty, orobsessed with finding a man ... it further
encourages a culture that causes women to self objectify, and for men to see women
as second-class," she said. "We've got to elevate ourselves as a society. Our culture is
celebrating (Kim Kardashian) for a sex tape, and the ambition in her family to exploit
reality TV and our dumbed-down culture for her financial gain ... so frankly, right now, we
need some serious elevation."
encourages a culture that causes women to self objectify, and for men to see women
as second-class," she said. "We've got to elevate ourselves as a society. Our culture is
celebrating (Kim Kardashian) for a sex tape, and the ambition in her family to exploit
reality TV and our dumbed-down culture for her financial gain ... so frankly, right now, we
need some serious elevation."
Power of influence - Kim Kardashian! The media is beyond powerful.
Reality television appears to have taken over our TV schedules. From the monstrous
behemoth that is Big Brother the genre spawned many hybrids and sub-genres. Faced with
a serious documentary on BBC4 or Wife Swap on Channel 4, most of the nation seems to
choose the ‘reality’ option. Indeed, Endemol, the Dutch company behind Big Brother, is
announcing record profits and moving into ever more controversial programming. In its
provocative, consciousness-raising hoax The Big Donor Show 2007, Lisa, the 37-year-old
victim of a brain tumour, asked the audience to help her decide which of the three
contestants with degenerative kidney conditions deserved to get her healthy kidneys.
The audience
The success of reality TV is partly due to the increasingly voyeuristic nature of the society
in which we live,and in part due to the obsession with celebrity and everyone wanting to
be one. I would also argue that we are living in a much more ‘open society’; not open in
terms of freedoms (in fact we have less freedoms), but open in terms of the ‘nothing is
sacred’ philosophy.
sacred’ philosophy.
Some theoretical perspectives
Can we apply any theoretical perspectives to the reality TV phenomenon? Firstly, given
that this would be
relevant to the ‘Audience’ section of Med4, Uses and Gratifications theory could certainly
be applied. All four categories of Uses and Gratifications research: (Diversion, Personal
Relationships, Personal Identity, Surveillance), can be applied to reality TV.
Relationships, Personal Identity, Surveillance), can be applied to reality TV.
• There is no doubt that we use reality TV as a form of escapism, it certainly helps you
forget about the stresses of the day when you can see people having a much worse day
than you have had.
than you have had.
• Reality TV performs the function of companionship through identification with television
characters, and there is no doubt that there is sociability
• In discussion: everyone was talking about BB5. In terms of personal identity, comparisons
are a relatively natural thing to make: we either take the stance that we are better than
the participants,
the participants,
or we want to be them.
• And finally, it is a source of information about the world, not just from a psychological
perspective, but also from finding out about a particular way of life – for
example, Airport, Property Ladder etc.
example, Airport, Property Ladder etc.
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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176510002302
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