The Influence Of Reality Television

Reality television is not just television. It is a form of entertainment that for the most part has no informative aspect to it. It does however offer it’s viewers a chance to escape from reality and real problems for just a brief period. The popularity of reality television all over the world has made reality TV a major player when it comes to real life drama, social conflicts, how to, and competitions. Reality television brings the experiences of the actors into the living rooms of the viewers and allows them to relate the experiences they are seeing on the television to their actual lives and experiences. Reality Television has helped to change culture and society by allowing the viewers to interact and accept the behaviors of the people they are watching and allows the viewers to

The author sheds light on the idea that younger generations are affected in a positive way when they watch reality T.V. While viewers are engaged watching a show, they learn to think critically and analyze environments and situations. Johnson discusses that in watching these shows, even reality TV for example, “kids are forced to think like grown-ups: analyzing complex social networks, managing resources, tracking subtle narrative intertwining’s, recognizing long-term patterns”(Johnson 294). I believe this could be a positive impact, but could also have some negative outcomes. Johnson believes that even bad T.V. is good T.V. because it teaches real world situations. This is where I believe the negative impact of the exposure of T.V. comes into play, because shows with high levels of violence could lead to the viewer reenacting the seen behavior; this goes for not only violence but other things as well. He also refers to a show that he considers nourishing; the finished series of 24, that “you have to pay attention, make inferences, track shifting social relationships” (Johnson 279). The benefit of these shows does not come from learning and following the characters’ actions; it comes from thinking and questioning situations. Studies done by Matthew Gentzkow, an assistant professor of economics at the university 's graduate school of business, and Jesse M. Shapiro conducted a study collecting data from cities where preschoolers were exposed to

This paper will attempt to describe the television genre, Reality TV; in terms of its historical, sociopolitical and industrial context of its time as well as its meaning and significance from the year 2000 onward. It will also discuss how the genre of Reality TV establishes its media practices in terms of production and consumption.

The Jersey Shore, The Bachelor, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, and The Girls Next Door are just a few of the hundreds of Reality Television shows that are on today and have pushed the classic Brady Bunch family style sitcom aside. According to a study performed by the University of Michigan Health System, an average of children ages 2-5 spend 32 hours a week in front of a TV—watching television and children ages 6-11 spend about 28 hours a week in front of the TV. A majority of shows that dominate the airwaves today are Reality Television shows that can easily influence the young children and teens of society. In “Reality Television - Educational or a Waste of Time?” Marvin Pirila discusses the false realism Reality Television conveys

Reality tv has been reported to teach wrong for young viewers. In the article “girls and reality tv” by the girl scouts of america (yea even they picked a side). Which also gives me most of my statistics (also i apologise for the incorrect math, but, apparently they can't math). They tested 1,141 girls around america and, their results were very interesting. When asked ‘you have to lie to get what you want” 37% of viewers agreed and 25% of non viewers agreed.

Reality television is negatively affecting the lives of adolescents across the United States, especially females. Physical image, materialism, the value of intelligence and behavioral mannerisms are all things reality television is influencing the lives of young females and is deterring them from the morals and values taught by their parents and teachers.

1. Most girls will do whatever it takes to be skinny and look like the stars that weigh 100 pounds "...the media influence on the cultural phenomenon of dieting and the perfect body. “Commercials and reality TV shows make you feel bad about yourself so you buy into the fad," Cohn said. The diet industry earns $50 billion each year on diet pills, and $8.4 billion is spent every year on cosmetic surgery. Women -- and men, Cohn stressed -- want to be thin, because large men and women are ridiculed" (Demmel). Eating disorders continues to be problem among young girls because of their role models. Girls on reality TV shows have that 'perfect' body and girls what to be everything like them.

It is a given that the culture we consume shapes who we are, more specifically what we view on television shapes the content of our minds. It is also generally known that children can be easily influenced by what they see on television. Reality TV is no exception to this rule. It may appear that reality TV is a benign phenomenon but it is in fact a virus that has quickly diseased our society. More specifically, it attracts girls most mercilessly by affecting them negatively as to how they perceive themselves. Indeed, girls who watch reality TV learn that deceit and meanness is normal behaviour in order to achieve success, begin to self-objectify more and have a higher expectation of more drama and conflict in their lives as well. The reality of reality TV is that it negatively portrays females. Is there no end to the onslaught on the female gender by television?

We do not normally question the types of reality television shows we like to watch. This is because over the years, reality television has dramatically increased therefore making it close to impossible to avoid this genre of television. Reality television has grown to be a part of America’s everyday norm and can always be found being talked about on the Internet, social media, magazines, etc. One of the first examples of reality television was in 1973 when “An American Family” first aired. The show was a twelve-hour document series about a couple and their five children living in Santa Barbra, California. The Loud Family lived in front of cameras for seven months, as viewers could not get enough of watching this family’s dramatic life unfold. (Revisit the Loud Family). As an immediate result of this new type of program, “An American Family” not only became one of the first reality television shows to air, but it also became one of the most controversial and most talked about television shows in its era. Being the first show without a host, interviews, and almost no voice-over narration, “An American Family” quickly captivated America’s popularity as the show related to viewers reality. Viewers received an enjoyable pleasure coming from a television program that was able to illustrate the negative side of both an average and relatable family. Therefore, the corruptive moments in the Loud family’s life and America’s enjoyment for those moments began the passageway for what has

Pop culture is popular culture that dominates a society at a point in time. Today, reality television is a part of the society’s popular culture (Johnson 289). The question is why? Reality television is a genre of television programming that focuses on members of the public living in conditions made by the creator, and displays how people are intended to behave in everyday life (Johnson 290). Reality television is debasing and should be strictly controlled, if not banned altogether (Johnson 293). Reality TV is very dishonest (Cox). Reality shows make for corrupting television as they encourage negative behavior (Johnson 279). Reality television shows also inhibit the learning of new things (Johnson 293). Reality shows are doubtful, negatively impacts the society, and weakens the intelligence of individuals.

From the way we talk, to the way we act, to the way we dress, reality TV has a very strong influence on the way we do it all. We watch everything from the typical TLC shows like long island medium, and 19 kids and counting, to all the competition shows like big brother, and the X factor and everything in between. Most of us watch it just for entertainment purposes because for some odd reason we find it so interesting to watch random celebrities do everything even if it’s just going out for lunch. We just can't get enough of our favourite families on keeping up with the kardashians and honey boo boo. And we find their lives so fascinating. A reality show is supposed to follow ordinary people and film them living their everyday lives just as

Television shows were created to entertain the public and soon generalized shows became a bore. Reality TV shows are widely varied but are similarly based on the lives of non-fictional characters that brings out their daily challenges and achievements. This genre of TV programs gives a huge impact to its audience of, mostly, twelve to nineteen year olds. Critics and bloggers heavily criticize the negative teachings of Reality TV and indirectly force viewers to shun away from it without glancing at the positive effects. Cooking, Food and Lifestyle improvement, and Competitive Reality TV shows positively affect the viewers by providing entertainment, encouragement to pursue personal happiness, and motivation to be resourceful and physically active.

Has reality TV shows damaged our youth? Reality has become the new normal for our teenagers. A lot of reality shows has portraying unlikely normal behavior, including: overly caring about self-image, partying and getting drunk, loud and physical behavior, and the list goes on. Some teens watch these shows with or without their parents’ permission. Some of these teens would rather watch these shows then during their homework and getting a good education. Some of them even think that these shows are real and that it is normal to act these way. We are supposed to teach our children to learn and get an education to go to college and get a degree to better their lives. Reality TV shows had taken over the world in which can be called as the “new age”. Things has changed drastically over the past ten years. Our youth are being damaged by these shows and it is hard to overcome these issues.

I am a curious person, and I am wondering how people can find reality tv entertaining while Mika screams "I cannot do it! Help me! " or tears are streaming down her face. However, as people accept it, this kind of program has become amazingly popular, and it all started with the real world. When it began, its purpose was to reflect the life of other people, but now its goal is to make money and increases the ratings, and most of the people have become addicted to it because most of the people are not aware of its purpose is to make money. People think it is harmless fun. While reality TV may seem like harmless fun, it has a negative effect on society.

Today 's population is highly dependant on the world 's view of themselves. More and more young people are more concerned with how many likes they get on Facebook, or instagram then they are with trying to spend quality time with their families. How did America end up so disconnected with one another? why is it that there are television sets in elevators, bathroom and malls? Our world is controlled by television, social media and the made up notion of what reality is.