Defining the Reality Genre You have 1 week to comment on the definition (due Feb. 8): 8/10 points possible for a simple response; 10/10 possible for also commenting on another classmate’s response. Your second One-Pager is due Tuesday, Feb. 7. I have listed resources on the Wiki, including links to online reality TV shows, memoirs on Google books, and blog links.

Who Is Saying What to Whom and Why? n-diaries-virgin-diaries-sneak- peek.html n-diaries-virgin-diaries-sneak- peek.html

Who Are the Intended Audiences for Reality Stories? To get at this, we take a closer look at media: What are media? How do media affect us?

Media – Latin for “between”

Answers to the Quiz 1. True 9. C 2. D 10. D 3. C (500 million members)11. D 4. False 12. D 5. D 13. a 6. A 7. True 8. D

What’s one thing you learned or surprised you?

In What Ways Do Media Affect Audiences? Killing Us Softly 4 (2:43-5:10): _NFQ&feature=related Advertising: $250 billion a year industry in U.S. An average American is exposed to 3,000 ads every single day and will spend two years of his/her life watching TV commercials (Tivo help!) So, do you feel personally exempt from the influence of advertising and media? (talk to a neighbor)

Tough Guise and Miss Representation 4http:// 4 (stop at 3:20) Do you agree: Is violent masculinity a cultural norm perpetuated by media? Do you see it in the reality genre? Where? (talk to a neighbor) What about media depictions of women: Are they keeping women down? (talk to a neighbor)

Cutting Through the Clutter One man interviewed said that in the media, you need to shock to cut through the clutter. What do you think: Are reality texts a way to “cut through the clutter”? Why, why not?

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How Do Audiences Affect the Media? What do you think?

Have You Ever Heard the Word Millennials? That’s You Born between 1981 and 2000 Most racially and ethnically diverse cohort of youth in the nation’s history (18.5 percent Hispanic; 14.2 percent black, 4.3 percent Asian, 3.2 percent mixed race; and 59.8 percent white) Politically progressive Least religiously observant generation Trusting of institutions

How do we know these statistics and why do they matter to media?

Apparently, Your Opinions Matter deo/flv/generic.html?s=frol02s483q70&contin uous=1 deo/flv/generic.html?s=frol02s483q70&contin uous=1 I’d like you to write down at least one thing that sticks out to you: quotes, numbers, images, or other things.

What stuck out?

Two quotes that stuck out to me: 1.) “Teens are like Africa.” What do you think of this idea of being a group that others seek to colonize? 2.) The narrator said of marketers studying teens: “They study them carefully as an anthropologist would an exotic native culture.”

So What’s the Latest in Media Research of Audiences? labs-introduces-first-ever-analysis-of-social- media-commentary-and-audience-responses- to-tv-ads/ labs-introduces-first-ever-analysis-of-social- media-commentary-and-audience-responses- to-tv-ads/ The Republican presidential candidates are using it.

How Does This All Relate to the Reality Genre?

Exit Tickets What’s one thing you learned about how audiences are affected by media? What’s one thing you learned about how audiences affect media?