English 197: January 30 2012“REAL”ITY TELEVISION

“…digital technology is an unmistakable presence in everyday life and is increasingly inextricable from mainstream social needs and conventions.”

• We are aware that reality TV isn’t so “real,” yet we gain satisfaction from this false reality.

• As much as we tell ourselves that it this reality is false, we geuninely react to situations and treat it like it is real.• Why is it so addicting to religiously keep up with these

television shows?• Why is falsely advertised as being real?

• How is our society affected by these misinterpretations?

WHY?

SHAHS OF SUNSET

“…instead of immediate, lived experience, the contemporary subject relies on the immediated real, a condition in which mediation is a given and life becomes a form of performance, constantly lived in a culture of exposure in exchange for self-affirming feedback.”

It’s interesting how fully aware our society is of the falsifications presented in these shows, yet now we can

point out a “guido” or when we hear someone is Italian we associate them with fist-pumping and “GTL.”

This immediated reality that we live in is taking over our lives more than we can realize.