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Do you know the guiltiest pleasure of the American public? Two simple words reveal all—reality TV. This new segment of the TV industry began with pioneering shows like MTV’s The Real World and CBS’s Survivor. Switch on primetime television nowadays, and you will become bombarded by and addicted to numerous shows all based on “real” life. There are the heartwarming tales of childbirth on TLC, melodramas of second-rate celebrities on Celebrity Mole, and a look into a completely dysfunctional family on The Osbornes. Yet, out of all these entertaining reality shows arises the newest low for popular culture, a program based on the idea of a rich man or woman in search of

The audiences, from “The Jerry Springer Show” to the people looking through Nikki’s photo album, judge the identity of the individuals

Change is never easy especially when you don’t realize it’s happening. Eugenia W. Collier's short story “Marigolds” is an excellent example featuring Miss Lottie, a positive woman who tries to overpower the ugliness by bringing colour in the grey times and planting marigolds. She faces daily struggles of being taunted by a bunch of bored kids including Lizabeth, an unbalanced teenager who is fighting her own battle inside. They use Miss Lottie as a source of entertainment by yelling dirty words, mocking her age and many other shameful actions. In this short story Colliers shows that you shouldn’t be selfish and hurt anyone just for the point of your entertainment.

This video provided many examples of how easily it is to influence a person's ideas or judgements. In just one day children became enemies with people that were once their best friends. Simply because the children were told they were better in certain aspects they immediately began to discriminate people that were “not as good as them”. When shown how quickly the children turned on one another it appalled me. In less than

Like Susan the truck driver from Nosedive she tells us her story of how she was once a 4.6 always wanting more. She explains that when her husband got cancer he needed help. Tom was a 4.3, and exclusive medical care was available, but instead of him they gave his bed to a 4.4 ranked person. After he died, she stopped caring about her rating and started telling people what she wanted when she wanted. Like most people they couldn't handle the truth that she was telling so they started to rank her low to the point where she was a 1. She woke up and realized that you can't care not everyone is going to like you like how Lacy wants people to like her at the wedding. Again we also see this in “for the loved of being “liked”.” It says. “A growing body of research indicates how deeply our brains are wired to seek social approval. A study out of Harvard in 2012 showed that humans devote up to 40 percent of our time to self-disclosure, and doing so is as pleasurable as having food or sex.” this shows that it is imputed into our brains that we feel the need to be

Within this community one’s sense of belonging can be altered by their own opinions and interests. These interests can either isolate someone or create unbreakable relationships between people, such as the almost destined friendship between the two protagonists Max and

A study at Stanford University shows that people tend to “underestimate how many negative experiences their peers are having” and “overestimate how much fun those same peers are having” (592). Social Media lets people decide what they want their life to look like and how they want to portray themselves to others. The platforms allow one to put together bits and pieces of ones life in order to create a puzzle of optimism to hide the sadness they don’t want to show the world. “The site’s very design- the presence of a ‘Like’ button, without a corresponding ‘hate button’- reinforces a kind of upbeat spin doctoring” (592). Copeland says that even the design of the social media platforms encourages putting a positive spin on things that aren’t so attractive to the people on the other side of the computer. “The human habit of overestimating other peoples happiness is nothing new, of course” (591). While people will always look at others and see their happiness, and never their pain, Social networking gives a bigger platform for people to do so. In an everyday conversation at the grocery store, people tend to focus on the positive. It is no different on Facebook, other than the positive spin is done in larger

In Tania Modleski’s “The Search for Tomorrow in Today’s Soap Operas” she introduces that the rare appearance and function of soap opera in two ways. The first being the viewer’s ability to occupy the text’s recommendation of the viewers position of ‘the good mother’, and the second using the stereotype ‘villainess’ to displace one’s own bottled up anger and powerlessness. I will analyze these two functions by using Modleski’s perspectives on the positions of soap operas, how a new genre of reality television programs that are featured today function in a similar way.

The “Nosedive” episode in the Black Mirror series predominately features aspects that are conducive to a social constructionist viewpoint. The episode foresees a possible world in which we're completely dependent upon social media. Each of us chases after a desirable score out of 5 stars that's affected by your social connections in the world. These scores are all subjective viewpoints from how others perceive you at a distance, with no context or previous knowledge of someone’s actual character. Yet even when character is considered, the score overshadows previous knowledge.

Whether its within romantic relationships or friendships, the show highlights healthy connections people ought to obtain, influencing the audience to take a step back and appreciate the friends they have in their

In the past in society, it has been true that a stranger is normally valued less than a person that people are close to. However, in younger generations, strangers' opinions are becoming more and more important to them. For instance, in Stuart Wolpert's article entitled “The teenage brain on social media”, his evidence from his experiment suggests that even though these are strangers' opinions, they responded to the influence, positively and negatively. Furthermore, this was just one observation from one experiment. He most likely predicts that the impact would be larger in real life. The experiment involved a group of teens who were complete strangers. The teens were told they were testing a new social media site, when in reality were being

     In the Netflix series Black Mirror the society is in episode “Nosedive”, is a dystopian, future. Social media is via smartphones, people instantly rate every encounter they have with another person. The highest rating is a 5, every interaction automatically

Everyday life has a purpose for what and why we do things in our usual day such as hair and follow fashion trends. We enter a public sphere when going out into a crowded area, risking and exposing ourselves to the people around us. “Keeping up with the Kardashian’s” is a reality show that shows the lives of the Kardashian family and what they do in their day to day lives. As the audience, we watch these episodes on the television once a week. We get to have sneak peek around their houses and their private lives that has become not so private but publicised. Putting yourself out into the public eye is a big deal as you get exposed and get judged on every move.

world, which requires constant engagement, creates a factor of self-awareness that may trigger depression in some people"(Amedie). It is somewhat hard to believe that something as innocent as a platform to connect people could actually be causing harm. Yet, that is what this kind of constant engagement can do. In the course of conducting her interview, Dawson spoke to a mother who expounded upon those feelings. She states, "I was always concerned with what my peers thought of me as a mother, wife, and woman. My posts were carefully chosen, making sure there was nothing unkempt in the background, my kids were perfectly dressed, that I looked good", says Vicky Lyashenko"(Dawson). Here we are given a clear example of the

She never lets her guard down when it comes to her social media ratings. To continue increasing her ratings, she is adamant on socializing with high-status people. By applying Erving Goffman’s impression management, it is evident that there are multiple ways that Lacie uses to avoid public shaming and embarrassment. Goffman’s concept shows different situations that can be avoidable as long as people present themselves in a certain way. When an individual is in public, it is best to be continuously updated with recent events. Once out of the loop, that can result in public embarrassment because the knowledge that has been applied is outdated and cannot compete with the newer information. When shame is brought, there can be actions to avoid them such as changing the subject or in Lacie’s situation, sending full ratings in hopes of avoiding embarrassment and to “save face.” Shame is a very hard thing to accept and it can change a person’s life drastically. It is the difference between having the highest rating and hitting rock bottom. Achieving a higher status is easy, but being stripped of your status is just as simple. Before going out in public, an update on knowledge can be done to avoid embarrassment and it can also be a conversation starter showing how much attention is being paid to someone. The person showing attention can feel a sense of success as a result of being constantly updated on social media, while the