The show – and the public’s reaction – can tell us a huge amount about how ideas about love and romance have changed over the centuries.
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In the year 1984, there was self-congratulatory coverage that the dystopia of the novel had not been realized. However, an expert argues that the technologies described in the novel are here and watching us.
What started as an experiment in 1964 has become the UK’s most successful documentary franchise.
Ordinary people have been getting their 15 minutes of fame on the small screen since the 1940s.
From Steve Smith’s tearful apology to anonymous apps like Whisper, public confessions can be therapeutic, emancipatory, or potentially exploitative.
The popular daytime television show has been axed. Here’s how programme makers can ensure proper aftercare fro reality show participants.
Married at First Sight is meant to be about finding love. But relationship science suggests the experiment is actually a perfect storm of factors that predict relationship breakdown.
Online lies can often be easy to detect, by searching for images and phone numbers and exploring social media profiles. Some people lie anyway – and countless others take the bait.
Bullying is a serious public health problem. Yet too often, reality TV shows trade in insults and name calling.
Many people dismiss the reality format as rubbish, but the shows and the social media discussion they promote are an important indicator of public opinion on vital issues.
Reality TV shows depicting relationships are popular, but a tolerance of abusive behaviour is also being exposed to a wide audience – including younger viewers.
RuPaul’s Drag Race, now in its tenth season, is an extraordinary success. But the show valorises a specific form of masculinity and is still grappling with a rapidly changing discourse around gender.
Exploitative reality show or a modern-day Jane Austen? You decide.
Should disabled competitors be judged on the same criteria as their able-bodied rivals when it comes to dance competitions?
There are more people of Middle Eastern heritage on Australian commercial TV than ever before - in drama, cooking, and Gogglebox.
Should reality stars be warned that everything they say can and will be used against them in a court of law? Turns out, it’s complicated.
A new study looks at the amount of television voters consumed, and whether this influenced their support for Donald Trump.
Cult TV show Gogglebox is more than light entertainment: it shows the diverse reality of Australian English, going beyond stereotypes about what Australians sound like.
Contemporary television is replete with gruesome tests of survival, charting our obsession with what modern man has lost.
Kim Kardashian et al taught Trump everything he knows.
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Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology
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Dennis Altman is a Friend of The Conversation.
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