Reacting to Reality Television

The unremitting explosion of reality television across the schedules has become a sustainable global phenomenon generating considerable popular and political fervour.This book addresses the impact of this endless opening out of intimacy as an entertainment trend that erodes the traditional boundaries between spectator and performer demanding new tools for capturing television¿s relationships with audiences. Rather than asking how the reality television genre is interpreted as `text¿ or representation the authors investigate the politics of viewer encounters as interventions, evocations, and more generally mediated social relations.