FINAL PROJECT: REALITY SHOWS

A curious topic for our final project could be comparing reality television in Italy and America.
This genre of TV program has had an unexpected success and every year new formats go on the air always enjoying great popularity.

People seem to be fascinating by watching “private life” becoming of “public domain”: bounds between private and public sphere overlap, and as a consequence, to distinguish what should be private and “secret” from what that can be made public becomes rather hard.

Programming is invaded by too many people with no particular competence or ability: their aim is to become popular but their widespread presence reduces further on the quality of TV programs.

It is also interesting to consider what effects reality television has on teenagers who do not have adequate tools to judge and understand that what they are watching is not real life.