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Jaelan Leonard
Professor Joy McDonald
English 101-07
October 28, 2016

Annotated Bibliography on Reality TV

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"Aladdin." Media Theories & Effects: 27 Sept. 2010. Web. 27 Oct. 2016.
The author of the blog explained how Aladdin was portrayed to her at a young age and
how it grabbed the attention of many through a story of adventure, heroism and love. She
then goes about to explain the plot of the movie and states that the movie contains many
kinds of racial stereotypes, violence, verbal bullying and eroticized women. The blog
later states that children are impressionable and that they may try to use the same
name-calling and perform the same violent acts after watching Aladdin. The usefulness
of this blog allows its viewers the moment to sit back and analyze the shows or movies
that they watch and look more deeply for subliminal. It also allows the chance to analyze
what shows or movies are kid-friendly that will result in positive reactions instead of
negative.
Fahner, Micki. "The
Real Effects of Reality TV." USA Today. Gannett, 18 Apr. 2012.Web. 27
Oct. 2016.
< http://college.usatoday.com/2012/04/18/the-real-effects-of-reality-tv/>

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Fahner explains how reality TV started out in the early 2000s, how its prevalence
increased for more than a decade and how the effect its having on viewers is still
unknown to many. He mentions Dr. Brad Gorham, the chairperson of the
Communications Department at S.I Newhouse School of Public Communications at
Syracuse University, who stated, All TV shows, not just reality shows, help construct
scenarios that demonstrate how some behaviors will be rewarded or punished. The
concern is that frequent viewers of these shows will learn these behaviors, see them as
desirable and then model them in the actual real world. This newspaper article is helpful
because it quotes many professionals who have already done research on reality TV
affecting the minds of many people. It allows individuals the chance to look at the

research that theyve done to conclude whats happening with this social phenomenon.
Kasparian, Ana. "Do Reality Shows Make Us Bullies?" YouTube. YouTube, 23 June 2012. Web.
28 Oct. 2016.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4C8L81gpO0>
Ana Kasparian (Co-host of The Young Turks and TYT University) led a weeks panel to
discuss the issue of reality TV shows influencing people to become bullies. She states the
issue of whether or not the social phenomenon has turned people into bullies and Desi
Doyen counters back and states that she doesnt believe that it has turned people into
bullies because people are already like that and that it has gone on for centuries. She also
states that people have an apparent dark human nature that likes to see these kind of train
wrecks and enjoy laughing at other peoples really bad circumstances. This video is

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helpful to many who want to get a sense of how other people may view reality TV shows
and who may want to get the run-down on why its so popular amongst Americans.
Nabi, Robin. "Determining Dimensions Of Reality: A Concept Mapping Of The Reality TV
Landscape." Journal Of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 51.2 (2007): 371-390. E-Journals.
Web. 28 Oct. 2016.
The journal article identifies what viewers perceive as important across reality-based
programming shows and also identifies reality TV subgenres and their attributes. Nabi
offered the following definition of reality TV which was, Programs that film real people
as they live out events in their lives, contrived or otherwise. They go further and state
reality TV as people portraying themselves, filmed at least in part in their living or
working environment rather than on set, without a script, with events placed in a narrative
context, and for the primary purpose of viewer entertainment. The journal article gives a
detailed analysis on the procedures that researchers should take to go about studying this
topic the journal article will help give better understanding on how different reality TV
subgenres and their attributes affect/influence the people who watch them.
Skeen, By Hope. "Reality TV's Effect on Teens." - Loveland Reporter-Herald. 01 Dec. 2011.
Web. 26 Oct. 20
This web article provides information on the conflicts that reality TV has with censorship
for teenagers. On average, a teen will watch 28 hours of television per week, adding up to
almost 15,000 hours a year, which is 4,000 more hours than they go to school. With
Reality TV being so popular, teens are getting more exposed to sex, drugs and vulgar
language at younger ages. The author explains that teenagers today have been exposed to

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things that two or three generations before them would have never been allowed to see
and that the standards for what is acceptable and what is not has lowered. She also
explains how children are learning morals from TV and not in the proper family
environment. This information will allow many individuals to better understand why
teens and adolescents perform in a peculiar way in this generation.