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Holmes, Su 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4243-8337
(2004)
'But this time You Choose!' Approaching the interactive audience of reality TV.
International Journal of Cultural Studies, 7 (2).
pp. 213-231.
ISSN 1460-356X
Abstract
The concept of ‘interactivity’ has gained increasing currency in relation to television. At the level of programming, at least, this has been made visible with the phenomenal rise of reality TV. Phrases such as ‘You decide!’ (Big Brother), ‘But this time you choose!’ (Pop Idol) and ‘If you want to have your say’ (The Salon) proliferate in contemporary television, articulating a rhetoric that insists pressingly upon a ‘new’ participatory relationship between viewer and screen. The aim of this article is to consider the political implications of this shift for existing approaches to audience-text relations in television and cultural studies. This involves a consideration of a number of broader issues which currently raise questions for the study of television and its audience, particularly the increasing criticisms made of the active/resistant audience paradigm, the relationship between television and the internet, and the status of the televisual ‘text’ in a proliferating intertextual field.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | cultural convergence,empowerment,fandom,forum,interaction,internet,intertextuality,real,the salon,user |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Film and Television Studies (former - to 2012) Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art, Media and American Studies |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Film, Television and Media |
| Depositing User: | EPrints Services |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Oct 2010 13:55 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Jul 2023 09:28 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/8659 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1367877904043238 |
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