Entertaining crime : television reality programs

Social problems and social issues

Reality TV : remaking television culture

"Stanley Milgram, Allen Funt, and Me": Cold War Social Science and the Roots of Reality TV" / "I Think We Need a New Name for It": The Meeting of Documentary and Reality Television / Teaching Us to Fake it: The Ritualized Norms of TV's Reality Games / "Expect the Unexpected": Narrative Pleasure and Uncertainty Due to Chance in Survivor / Extraordinarily Ordinary: The Osbournes as "An American Family" / Political Economic Origins of Reali-TV / End of TV 101: Reality Programs, Formats, and the New Business of Television / Court TV: The Evolution of a Reality Style

Country Hicks and Urban Cliques: Mediating Race, Reality, and Liberalism MTV's The Real World / What do Women Watch? Tuning in to the Compulsory Heterosexuality Channel / Aliens, Nomads, Mad Dogs and Road Warriors: The Changing Face of Criminal Violence on TV / "Take Responsibility for Yourself": Neoliberalism, Citizenship, and Reality Television / See You in Hell, Johnny Bravo! / Got to Be Real: Mediating Gayness on Survivor / Meaning of Real Life / "Kiss Me Kat": Shakespeare, Big Brother and the Taming of the Self / Jamming Big Brother: Webcasting, Audience Intervention, and Narrative Activism

Teen dating

Opposing viewpoints series

Opposing viewpoints series (Unnumbered)

Teen dating violence is a serious problem / The problem of teen dating violence is exaggerated / Many teens lack the knowledge needed to recognize potential abusers / Some teens believe teen dating violence is normal / Teen dating violence education programs should be mandatory / School teen dating violence programs are unnecessary and wasteful

Early teen sex is common and poses serious risks / Most teens are not engaging in risky sexual behavior / Dating teens should not have sex / New teen dating practices reduce the likelihood of sex / Teens who have sex risk physical and emotional harm / Comprehensive sex education will reduce the risks of teen sex / Virginity pledges prevent some teens from having sex / Consensual sex among teens should not be criminalized

Sexting can be a serious problem for dating teens / The problem of teen sexting is less common than first reported / Abusive teen dating partners use technology as tools of abuse / Media have both a positive and negative impact on teen sexual relationships / Reality television shows reveal the risks of teen pregnancy / Reality television shows glamorize teen pregnancy / Media literacy programs help teens resist negative media images of teen relationships / Parents must mediate negative images of teen dating in the media

Reality TV : realism and revelation

Staging the real : factual TV programming in the age of Big Brother

Reality TV : realism and revelation

Reality TV : realism and revelation

The tube has spoken : reality TV & history

Film & history

Film & history (Lexington, Ky.)

Citizen Funt : surveillance as Cold War entertainment / From social experiment to postmodern jokes : Big brother and the progressive construction of celebrity / From the kitchen to 10 Downing Street : Jamie's school dinners and the politics of reality cooking / The patriotic American is a thin American : fatness and national identity in The biggest loser / Disillusionment, divorce, and the destruction of the American dream : An American family and the rise of reality TV / "The television audience cannot be expected to bear too much reality" : The family and reality TV / Reality TV and the American family / Shopping, makeovers, and nationhood : reality TV and women's programming in Canada / Babes in bonanzaland : Kid nation, commodification, and the death of play / "A storybook every day" : fiction and history in the Channel 4/PBS house series / "What about giving us a real version of Australian history?" : identity, ethics, and historical understanding in reality history TV / Living history in documentary practice : the making of The colony

Reality television : merging the global and the local

Media and communications - technologies, policies and challenges

Media and communications.

Something real

Reality television.

The reference shelf ;

Reference shelf ;

The perfect escape