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Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Comment/debate › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Notes on ethical scenarios of self on British reality TV
AU - Wood, Helen
AU - Skeggs, Beverley
PY - 2004/12/1
Y1 - 2004/12/1
N2 - What follows are notes on a range of reality television programmes which foreground “extraordinary subjectivity” (John Dovey 2000). Despite the increasing diffusion of a proliferating range of reality TV formats, they are uniform in their interrogations of self under the pressures of particular conditions. We locate this obsession with selfhood within contemporary sociological arguments concerned with the individualisation thesis and suggest that the televising of such scenarios offers spaces where ethical choices are rehearsed and played out, staging the drama and spectacle through traditional narratives of gender and class.
AB - What follows are notes on a range of reality television programmes which foreground “extraordinary subjectivity” (John Dovey 2000). Despite the increasing diffusion of a proliferating range of reality TV formats, they are uniform in their interrogations of self under the pressures of particular conditions. We locate this obsession with selfhood within contemporary sociological arguments concerned with the individualisation thesis and suggest that the televising of such scenarios offers spaces where ethical choices are rehearsed and played out, staging the drama and spectacle through traditional narratives of gender and class.
U2 - 10.1080/1468077042000251256
DO - 10.1080/1468077042000251256
M3 - Comment/debate
AN - SCOPUS:28844447978
VL - 4
SP - 205
EP - 208
JO - Feminist Media Studies
JF - Feminist Media Studies
SN - 1468-0777
IS - 2
ER -