Critical Analysis of Reality TV: Social and Behavioral Changes

This essay provides a critical analysis of reality television, examining its impact on society, behavior, and audience engagement. The analysis focuses on the civic functions of reality entertainment, exploring how these shows influence social and behavioral changes. The essay references works by Laurie Ouellette and others to explore the evolution of reality TV, its target audiences, and the ways in which these programs shape viewers' perceptions of reality. The author discusses the shows influence on the social and physiological understanding of the participants and the projected outcome. The essay also touches on the impact of citizen branding and corporate social responsibility, government intervention, and the evolution of entertainment formats. The conclusion highlights the complexities of reality entertainment and its reflection of civic life, emphasizing the ethical considerations of portraying personal lives on camera.

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Reality Television is the significant medium to analyze each person's interpretation from
the on-screen actions that they considered to be the real one. Most of the cases are in passive
terms and that exhibit the reality shows and programs. Reality shows are the best entertaining
program that impacted over the social and behavioral changes in society (Ouellette). There are
some findings that affecting the people and relate their life through the process. This is a new
trend in television that widely portrayed the morality or authentication in social impact. In this
chosen analysis "Reality TV Gives Back" Laurie Ouellette provides the thesis statement over a
civic association that has changed the reinterpretation of incorporated current population
(Ouellette). Since 1990, the process has infused in the television where the reality programs have
provided the competitive advantage to the selected channel. Channel TRP ratio and engagement
with viewers are also changed as they have delivered the most entertaining section in the
television.
The target audience in this section also covers the people who are engaged deeply in the
reality shows like "Big Brother", "The Real World" and "Jersey Shore" (Allen, Kim, and
Heather). These reality shows are the medium to showcase the participant's social and
physiological understanding and their projected outcome. The shows are designed in such way
that implied values of the daily life of people are executed in such shows (Ashikali et al.). The
argumentation is taken place in such section and that also highlighted by the author. The author

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stated that the relation and the produced entertainment provided by those reality shows are the
only observation of civic life and their functions. This is the historical observation that has
persuaded in those shows and if they imposed in such an order they these principles are pointed
back to the late 18000s realism and lively hood of the people. As Public Broadcasting Service
(PBC) has the greater extent in civic potentialities than British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC),
thus PBC’s extent is much greater than BBC (Allen, Kim, and Heather). This is the influence
that civic potentialities have done in the audience through the cultural relationship and enlighten
the instrument of concept (Teurlings). The entertainment formats have changed as the
modification of television programs have evaluated. The market imperatives and the
entertainment format have changed with dates and these may influence the socio-cultural impact
over the citizenship (Ashikali et al.).
A better life can be drawn from those programs as these are addressing the consumer
culture and their taste. The service tradition implemented in the social performance that would
manage the realism or the feeling of the people so that public engagement can consider. There
are certain government interventions in that case so that promotion of the broadcasting cannot be
an issue for the producers (Allen, Kim, and Heather). Citizen branding and corporate social
responsibilities are the key issues that allow the impact of the programs and deliver the civilly
minded show for the people (Feltwell). Good civic-minded branding and practices are delivering
is this context that involves the relation with the cluttered environment in terms of social
accumulation. In some other contrasting cases, MTV has proclaimed their shows to replace the
trivial reality programs and VH1 has put their effort for narrating a program over Barack Obama,
so these are some informative and constructive programs that encompass the modern

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transformation and spirit of accountability (Allen, Kim, and Heather). Pure market logic is
related to that factor as the improved categorization and the imposed capitalization over the study
always pointed in the social reformation thus that needed to change for the sustainable
implementation of those programs (Neuendorf).
Therefore it can be concluded that the research aim has eventually analyzed the unravel
complexities of the real entertainment in urgent form as these have resembled with the earlier
civic life. There are certain revealing manners of personal life through camera and projections
that uncover the visual aesthetics of the viewer as they are getting into someone's personal life.
This is a complex situation that participants have to undergo in this situation and such things are
portrayed in an ethical manner from the production. This is the need take form the views as they
want to see those dramas, emotions, and lifestyle which is considered as the term of reality.
There is certain lack of marketability has happened due to the current form of reality TV as these
programs are possibly entitled as the premiere shows for the viewers.

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Ouellette, Laurie. "Reality TV gives back: On the civic functions of reality
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