Reality TV: The Work of Being Watched

By K. Lebesco. 2005

385 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Gender Studies, Literature and Literary Theory

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Citations in the corpus

• ‘I Guess A Lot of People See Me as a Big Sister or a Friend’: the role of intimacy in the celebrification of beauty vloggers (2017, background): “…to broadcast images of their daily, intimate lives, camgirls recognized what Andrejevic calls the ‘potential of the work of being watched’ (p. 76), engaging with – and often profiting from – changing attitudes to surveillance by voluntarily documenting their lives online (Andrejevic, 2004).”
• Perceptions of the Authenticity of Reality Programs and Their Relationships to Audience Involvement, Enjoyment, and Perceived Learning (2009, neutral): “…the settings and situations can be contrived, know that the people and stories featured on the shows are carefully selected, and suspect that many of the events presented on the shows are staged or manipulated by producers (e.g., Andrejevic, 2004; Hall, 2006; Hill, 2005; Lundy, Ruth, & Park, 2008).”
• Audience Activity and Reality Television: Identification, Online Activity, and Satisfaction (2010, methodology): “On a scale ranging from 1 (never) to 5 (always), respondents indicated the extent to which they participate in a variety of online post-exposure activities.2 This list was derived from interactive reality television literature (Andrejevic, 2004; Bloxham, 2001; Johnson-Woods, 2002).”
• Epidemics of will, failures of self-esteem: Responding to fat bodies in The Biggest Loser and What Not to Wear (2008, background): “…promote what Foucault calls ‘governmentality’: instilling in participants and audiences a willing acquiescence to surveillance and self-monitoring (Andrejevic 2004), and doing the work of governmental agencies, including the courts, in encouraging audiences to focus on issues of personal…”
• Parental Mediation Theory for the Digital Age (2011, neutral): “…language and social interaction (Duckworth & Buzzanell, 2009; Fowler, 2007; Green, 2007), as well as in production of culture studies (see, e.g., Andrejevic, 2003, 2005, 2007; Baym, 2000; Gray, Sandvoss, & Harrington, 2007; Gregg, 2009; Gregg & Siegworth, 2010; Grindstaff, 2002; Harrington &…”