Reality-Based Television Programming and the Psychology of Its Appeal
@article{Nabi2003RealityBasedTP, title={Reality-Based Television Programming and the Psychology of Its Appeal}, author={Robin L. Nabi and Erica Biely and Sara J. Morgan and Carmen R. Stitt}, journal={Media Psychology}, year={2003}, volume={5}, pages={303 - 330} }
Despite the general presence of reality-based television programming for more than a decade and its recent increasing popularity, the extant literature on the phenomenon is limited. In Study 1, we considered how the viewing public constructs the so-called genre of reality-based TV. Multidimensional space analysis based on the Q-sort responses of 38 city residents indicated reality-based TV shows (a) are largely distinct from most major programming genres, although they do not form a…
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