...Reality television has become very popular over the past decade with shows such as "Jersey Shore” and “Keeping Up With The Kardashians,” attracting big audiences and making a lot of money for broadcasters worldwide. Typically reality TV involves a group of people who are not trained actors being filmed in unusual situations over a period of time. Documentaries that explore aspects of society are a grey area, with some closer to news reporting and others blurring into reality TV because they set up situations which did not already exist. Recently, celebrity versions of reality shows have made definition even harder because they show the private lives of professional singers, actors, and sports people as they cope with new situations. Most people believe reality TV has no value; therefore it is bad for society and the children that make up the majority of the audience. Although reality shows are meant to entertain the audience, it portrays fans to follow the footsteps of the celebrities and reveals inappropriate scenes to receive higher ratings. Reality shows send a bad message and help to create a cult of instant celebrity. They brainwash teenagers into thinking they have to look and act like the people on television to become famous. Aubree Rankin from Television stated, “Television serves as a model for social behavior and interaction, especially for young viewers, many of whom pick up cues from how they see their favorite TV personalities behave” (1). They are typically...
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...long-term brand equity. Since IMC is all about using different Media vehicles, the most effective one is Television; such as Reality television shows which has many benefits and contributions especially when it comes to creating a successful brand. There are two reality television shows that has been analysed from the first part of this assignment and they are: Keeping up with the Kardashians and My Kitchen Rules, which I will then discuss how it relates to branding. Brand equity is important to create and maintain as it is an intangible asset of added value as well as goodwill that will then result from the favourable image, impressions of differentiation and the strength of consumer attachment to brand name, company name or trademark. The stronger the equity the better it positions the company as well as its brand which is only often reinforced through advertising or even sponsoring. For example, Breville appliances command good quality kitchen appliances and represents higher price than the other brands as it is being used by the contestants of My Kitchen Rules. In other words, it is the value that attaches to a brand (Belch & Belch, 2004). Reality television shows is probably the most popular genre of television programme nowadays as this genre documents unscripted situations without writers, features ordinary people instead of professional actors and shows real-life occurrences. In addition, people are starting to like more what is ‘real’ compare to the traditional scripted...
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...introduced to America as a show about three families, a traditional family structure, homosexual family, and a mixed family that all interact with each other. Keeping Up With the Kardashians are an American family with their own reality TV show, centering around a celebrities everyday life. In analyzing the two popular TV shows Modern Family and Keeping Up With the Kardashians from a feminist perspective, it is evident that American culture in today’s society is either pushing or differing away from the norms of gender roles and hegemonic ideologies. In September 2009, Modern Family first aired on ABC and is not on it’s seventh season. This culturally defining series has now won five consecutive Emmy awards and a Golden Globe award and continues to entertain American with its sitcom. The head of the family is Jay, who is married to a much younger Latin woman named Gloria, and he tires to keep up with her and her passion filled son Manny. Claire, is Jays daughter who is a hard worker but had trouble raising her three kids while her husband Phil is worried about “getting down” or being just like them. Their three kids are Haley, a typical bratty teenager, Alex, who is incredibly smart, and Luke who is very different. The third family is Claire’s homosexual brother and his partner Cameron and together they have an adopted little girl named Lily. Throughout this show we watch the three families go through their everyday interesting lives. Keeping Up With the Kardashians aired in 2007 and...
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... and for many that may be sitting down in the comfort of your own home and turning on the television to your favourite Reality TV show. There are many shows that feature the everyday lives of the average person such as Duck Dynasty, Cake Boss and Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, just to name a few. However, we all know the better shows include lots of drama and unfortunately some violence. Those with violence may include some of the shows featured in the video article “Reality Show Violence Getting Too Real?” published by ABC News (Canning and Stuart). You will see four major reality TV shows featured in this article, which include Teen Mom, KUWTK spin off Kourtney and Khloe take New York, The Real Housewives’ of Jersey and the infamous Jersey Shore. If you were looking at this video in a functionalist perspective, you would see that the producers of these shows...
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...Mariah Priester The Reality TV Phenomenon Many of us spend countless hours a week enjoying the shows that come on t.v. Years ago, television shows focused on the family, the strong bonds they shared, and building strong family ties. Shows like “The Brady Bunch”, “The Cosby Show” “Full House” and “Family Matters” were shows that could be enjoyed by the entire family. Today, television has taken on a new role, and it’s called “Reality T.V.” Reality TV are shows that observe real-life situations. They are t.v. programs that present real people in live, though often deliberately manufactured, situations and monitor their emotions and behavior. The industry now filled with unscripted dramas, makeover sagas, celebrity breakdowns, lifestyle-change shows, dating shows, talent searches and just about any kind of competition you can think of (and a few that you probably can't). In the fall 2007 season, there were more than a dozen reality shows in prime-time slots on major networks and cable channels. On any given night, you can watch "The Biggest Loser," "Dancing with the Stars," "The Real World," "I Love New York," "Beauty and the Geek," "America's Next Top Model," "Ultimate Fighter," "The Bachelor," "Run's House" or "Project Runway" -- to name just a few. Reality TV was created as an alternative to normal programs, and to boost channel ratings. Many shows were being cancelled due to low viewership. It has been since The Real World and Road Rules premiered on MTV back...
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...The Kardashian’s and Jenner’s are very interesting families with many weird things about them. What if someone were to give them their own day? Well there would be a few reasons why I believe they should get a day and some of them include ones that I am about to share. Both of these families are very busy and always up to something weather its weird, funny or is something important. Many things go on in their lives, and this is why they have their own reality TV show, though it is called Keeping up with the Kardashians it also includes the other sisters which are the Jenner’s. Now having a show is nice but I believe that all of the people who watch the show agree with me that they deserve a day to their self’s every year. Most of them have...
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...IGCSE COURSEWORK What I would like to ban, to improve life in the 21st Century? I would love to ban many things in life to make everyone’s life better and safe. Different people would change different things due to their own experience; they will change certain things so that it will benefit themselves and the next generation. I have several things that I’d like to ban including cigarettes. Cigarettes are dangerous and harmful. They harm the smoker in several ways and the smoker is likely to get lung cancer which may lead killing him. There are more than 2.4 million deaths in the UK annually; over 440,000 are caused by smoking! Smoking is the largest cause of preventable death in the world! Scientists say there are over 4,000 compounds in cigarette smoke and majority of them are toxic - they are bad for us and damage our cells! Some of them cause cancer. Why would you risk your life just for smoke to enter your body? Some people are very narrow minded and will indeed risk their life. That is just plain and utterly stupid, so the government should ban smoking to save those senseless people from themselves. Also another advantage of banning cigarettes is that it will stop people spending lots of money on buying cigarettes as well as saving money for the smokers it will save money for the government because the NHS would not have to treat illnesses caused by smoking. A further reason why I would ban cigarettes completely is because young people smoke illegally at the moment...
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...Keeping up with the Kardashians, Teen Mom, Desperate Housewives, Love and Basketball, do any of these titles ring a bell? These are some of the most popular reality tv shows on air right now. These shows are glorified, the people in them are worshipped, and the lives they live many could only dream of having. But do these tv shows and tv personalitys really deserve all this admiration? I think not. Really, the stereotypes these shows promote are very dangerous. They promote certain body images, certain lifestyles, and an unrealistic and careless view of money. Many young people are very insecure about how they look, and seeing these reality tv stars with perfect bodies only makes them feel worse. Reality TV promotes that smaller is better. These ideas push teens to extreme lenghths to acheive this look. Anorexia, belimia and other eating disorders are a result of the dangerous unrealistic stereotypes shown on reality tv....
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...Although a lot of what I observed in media was negative there were still signs of progression away from stereotypes and gender roles. Within reality tv there are a lot staged events that lack sincerity, however reality shows have the capability to highlight the dangers of life choices (Teen Ink). For example, reality shows such as 16 and pregnant show the difficulties of having a child at a young age. In advertisement there are some companies such as Secret Deodorant which create commercials with the intent of taking down societal barriers. One Secret Deodorant commercial depicts a woman proposing to her boyfriend at dinner, in the middle of video it pauses with the words “Claire's act of romance flips the script on a centuries-old tradition.” They want the viewer to understand that proposal is not just the job of a man. In the past years there has a been surge in public support for equal representation for homosexuals that has been largely driven by media (Colwell 1). The more entertainment such as movies and shows include homosexuals it becomes clear to everyone that they are apart of society we must accept where our country is...
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...other “reality” television are some of the guilty programming that draws my attention. The integrated pattern of human knowledge, belief, and behavior that depends upon the capacity for learning and transmitting knowledge to succeeding generations or b : the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group; also : the characteristic features of everyday existence (as diversions or a way of life) shared by people in a place or time (Merriam-Webster, Incorporated , 2013). Embracing culture, especially popular culture can have varying meaning depending on one’s environment. The recognition of the iconic one-liners, the names of “reality” television show stars that may otherwise go unknown to the American public is a key indicator of trends in American culture. Three trends in America’s societal popular culture seem to be the fascination with other individuals lifestyles or their reality, the shift in political participation could be considered a trend linked to the election of an African-American as president a president that made varying pop culture references during speeches (ESPN Internet Ventures, 2012), and a third trend may be the continuously growing popularity of hip-hop music. The impactful nature of the trends in pop culture from relating to politics to fashion sense, is impacted by popular American culture. Journaling June 1, 2013: Keeping up the Kardashians; a marathon is on television of this “reality” TV show. This show...
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...Influence of Entertainment Media HUM/186 October 21, 2013 Shaun P. Herness Influence of Entertainment Media Every day Americans search websites like TMZ.com and blogs, or buy magazines at stores to see what celebrities are doing. Some Americans instead of buying or searching the web tune in to E! TV to follow celebrities’ lifestyles. This trend has become more common with all the available entertainment media. Entertainment media is easy to find online, stores, and television. E! TV has the show “Keeping Up With The Kardashian.” This show has become part of the American entertainment media culture, from teenagers to adults tune in to watch it. This is a reality show that is based on the life of a Hollywood family, including their personal problems, vacations, and even more explicit situations like divorce and sexual conversations. This reality shows has become a trend in Hollywood and the American people believe that they are living the life of these celebrities. The entertainment media does not only affect the American culture it also affects what people are doing. Woman and teenage girls are looking at this media to compare what they wear, how they look, and how their lifestyle is. Teenage girls use the media to shape their body like their favorite celebrities, and in many occasions it has affected their health. Teenage girls are suffering of eating and emotional disorders. In the last couple of years entertainment media has become extremely popular and the American...
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...In the media, reality TV stars like Snooki and Kim Kardashian are on the rise. Most channels on television have at least one reality show, from following housewives to remodeling homes of real life families. However, there are some reality programs that display bad examples, especially for young audiences that are keeping up with each episode. On MTV people see girls being drunk in public, addicts doing drugs, and young girls raising babies at young ages; these are situations seen on reality TV shows. Jeremy W. Peters’ “When Reality TV Gets Too Real” and James Poniewozik’s “Why Reality TV is Good for us” inform readers about what the general public can view on television and how it affects the minds of children. Reality TV shows such as Jersey Shore, 16 and Pregnant, Intervention, and The Real World all are bad for kids because they show inappropriate and explicit behavior, they send a bad message, and they humiliate people. For these reasons, parents should make sure their kids do not get the wrong message of how life should be. Reality TV shows are inappropriate and explicit. In Jersey Shore, Italians are portrayed as partyers and classified as Guidos and Guidettes. Actual Italians are disgusted since they think it is an insult to their Italian culture. Furthermore on MTV, young girls can be seen struggling with teen pregnancy. The show 16 and Pregnant follows expectant teens and their partners at a young age with a baby on the way struggling to maintain basic needs for themselves...
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...Tina Marie Bergelt Media Ethics November 2014 Teen pregnancy is described as a girl between the ages 13-19 who becomes pregnant. This phenomenon has been around historically and still continues today. Teenagers are very unaware of the consequences of unprotected sex and can result in having a child in their teenage years. Many teenagers watch television daily. Television has evolved from the past decade from reporting news to reality TV. Many television shows in the 21st century are now engrossed in teenage pregnancy. Many different actresses play the role of a pregnant teenage girl or the actress is actually pregnant in real life, this causes teenage girls to idolize them and when watching their idol it inspires one to be like them. Television is a very powerful tool and can significantly impact the actions of its viewers. With the amount of teenagers watching television today, movies and television shows that partake in having teenage pregnancy in their programs influence actual pregnancy within the teenage girls that are watching the shows. Historically, in the 1950’s, people got married before they were 20 and being pregnant while you were a teenager was the norm. This was because women were less likely to gain an education passed elementary school so they got married and started their families in their mid-teens (Daphne Matthews, 2011). During the 1950’s, television was introduced; however in its infancy, it was only used to pass along news. As the years passed,...
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...World in Stitches “Jennifer Lopez”, “Kim Kardashian”, even “Barbie” are some of the people or things that people obsess over to look like, so they get plastic surgery to look like them. Cosmetic Surgery has been a growing fascination for many people over the last couple of decades, even though it has been around for centuries. The public eye has been watching movie stars and rock stars enhance their looks by getting breast implants, nose jobs, lip jobs etc. Shows on TV and images produced by the media will make people do almost anything to fit the world’s standards of the perfect body, perfect face and even the perfect toes. Plastic surgery offers a quick fix to help achieve this goal but no matter how much surgery nothing or no one will be perfect. With cosmetic surgery being made affordable to more people than ever before, more individuals are getting cosmetic surgery to look like the perfect person or the favorite celebrity. But then, there are some people who get plastic surgery not to just look like the famous celebrity but also because of the parents who pressure the child or teenager to get cosmetic surgery due to the child or teenager’s “abnormalities” and “low self-esteem”. Although cosmetic surgery can help with low-self esteem, images, shows produced by the media and even some parents are the problems that many Americans of all ages deal with to want to look like the perfect person or the famous A-list celebrity. From the beginning of time people of every race...
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...surroundings. Someone’s culture influences their preference in music, food, clothing, hair styles, parenting skills, social skills, and the way someone reacts to their environment. Pop culture is everywhere we look from television, radio, magazines, billboards, newspapers, family, friends, co-workers, professors, and classmates all of these things influences our lives in one way or another. It influences the way we behave in public, what we say, and the way we react to our giving surroundings in a specific time period, which is forever changing depending on what society finds acceptable at that point in time. Three trends in today’s American culture, starting with the biggest is reality TV, such as “Keeping up with the Kardashians”, “Jersey Shore”, “The Bachelor”, and “Teen Mom”. These reality shows have became a huge hit here in America, being able to watch these peoples personal issues play out right before your eyes is fascinating to some and boring to other. The second major trend would be the body modification, such as tattoos and or piercings. I believe that people are enjoying decorating their bodies not only to make themselves even more unique, but to express their own personality. Thirdly there is the large variety of music in today’s society, such as country, soft and hard- rock, pop, rap, hip-hop, classical, and reggae. As with any culture it depends on your environment as to what kinds of music you listen to. Popular American Culture affects everyone’s personal...
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