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Authenticity and how we fake it : belief and subjectivity in reality TV, Facebook and YouTube / Aaron Duplanter.
- Title
- Authenticity and how we fake it : belief and subjectivity in reality TV, Facebook and YouTube / Aaron Duplanter.
- Author
- Duplantier, Aaron
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]
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- Description
- vii, 185 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Consumers today are invested in reality-based media, which in theory draw content from somewhere off-screen in our lived experience. This is perceived as more "authentic" than the predominantly fictional media. Yet much of reality TV and social media is known by both consumers and creators of content to be scripted or contrived"--
- Subject
- Authenticity (Philosophy) in mass media
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- If only reality tv were not real: advertising, ordinary people and savvy consumption -- Ontologies of Facebook: Catfish and the magical thinking of consumers -- How YouTube subjectivizes: vlogging, hauls and creative consumption -- Conclusion: beyond reality tv, Facebook and YouTube.
- ISBN
- 0786498498
- 9780786498499
- OCLC
- 947925908
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library