Lemi Baruh's Talk
Faculty
of Arts and Social
Sciences
Presents
A Power Point
Presentation
Attitudes,Voyeurism & Reality Programs
by
Dr. Lemi Baruh
Ph.D (2007)
Annenberg School for
Communication,
University of Pennsylvania
Abstract:
Since becoming a staple of primetime
programming,
reality programs have frequently been portrayed as a sign of base
voyeurism and
contemporary society’s fascination with the private lives of others.
Despite
the frequency of such comments, however, there is little research about
the
relationship between reality programming, voyeurism and privacy. This
presentation provides an overview of a dissertation thesis project that
addresses this void by investigating how television viewers’
voyeuristic
tendencies and privacy expectations factor into the choices they make
about
watching reality programs.