Reading Realism: Audiences' Evaluations of the Reality of Media Texts

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Emotional and Cognitive Predictors of the Enjoyment of Reality-Based and Fictional Television Programming: An Elaboration of the Uses and Gratifications Perspective (2006, background): “4Though TV realism appears to be a multidimensional construct (see Busselle & Greenberg, 2000; Hall, 2003; Potter, 1988; Shapiro & Chock, 2003), and it is possible that fictional and reality-based programming might differ along some dimensions but not others, our interest here is in controlling for ”
Perceptions of the Authenticity of Reality Programs and Their Relationships to Audience Involvement, Enjoyment, and Perceived Learning (2009, methodology): “The wording of the new items was informed by the language used by viewers in openended interviews and survey questions about their perceptions of reality programs (e.g., Hall, 2003; Hill, 2002, 2005).”
Measuring Narrative Engagement (2009, background): “We refer to perceiving the narrative as coherent and plausible as narrative realism (also see Hall's, 2003 , narrative consistency and Fisher's, 1987 , narrative probability).”
Enjoyment of films as a function of narrative experience, perceived realism and transportability (2011, background): “Violations of narrative realism occur when the story itself is internally inconsistent, for example when a character’s behavior is inconsistent with her motivations or goals (Busselle and Bilandzic, 2008; see also narrative probability, Fisher, 1987; narrative consistency, Hall, 2003).”