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Reality TV and Civic Engagement: Researching the Lives of the Young Palestinians Who Ran for ‘The President’
Creative Industries Journal, volume 17, issue 3 (2024), pp. 567-587
"This article analyses the role that Reality TV can play in the lives of young participants, when a programme is designed as a strategic intervention to achieve change. With roots in Communication for Development notions, this study brings together different theoretical fields to illustrate how medi
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Pimp my farm: Eine Reality-TV-Show in Kenia verändert nicht nur die Ernte der teilnehmenden Bauern, sondern auch das Leben der Zuschauer
Die Zeit, nr. 51 (2023)
"[...] Tonny Njuguna ist Schauspieler und einer der beiden Moderatoren von Shamba Shape Up, einer Reality-TV-Show aus Kenia. "Shamba" bedeutet Farm in der Landessprache Kisuaheli, "shape up" ist Englisch und heißt so viel wie aufmotzen oder pimpen. Allein in Kenia schauen Woche für Woche bis zu ne
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The Cultural Politics of Affect and Emotion: A Case Study of Chinese Reality TV
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2022), 232 pp.
"Against the background of the media commercialization reform since the 1990s in China and drawing on the case of »X-Change« (2006-2019), Wei Dong investigates the entanglements between emotion and subjectivity, ideology, identity and hegemonic power in the multimodal text of the program. The focu
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Makeovers Made Over: Ubuntu and Decolonization in Reality TV
Television & New Media, volume 21, issue 5 (2020), pp. 439-456
"Narratives about Africa are often shaped by deficit discourses that frame “development” as an instrument for advancing the interests of global capitalism. From within this neoliberal view, Africa has to “catch up” to and “be taught” how to emulate and achieve the standards promulgated i
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Can the TV Makeover Format of Edutainment Lead to Widespread Changes in Farmer Behaviour and Influence Innovation Systems? Shamba Shape Up in Kenya
Land Use Policy, volume 76 (2018), pp. 338-351
"Edutainment, the combination of education with entertainment through various media such as television, radio, mobile phone applications and games, is increasingly being used as an approach to stimulate innovation and increase agricultural productivity amongst smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Afri
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Global Media Studies
Cambridge; Malden, Mass.: Polity Press (2016), vii, 247 pp.
Lifestyle TV
New York; London: Routledge (2016), vii, 186 pp.
"Lifestyle TV analyzes a burgeoning array of lifestyle formats on network and cable channels, from how-to and advice programs to hybrid reality entertainment built around the cultivation of the self as project, the ethics of everyday life, the mediation of style and taste, the regulation of health a
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Nonfiction-Formate für TV, Online und Transmedia: Entwickeln, präsentieren, verkaufen
Konstanz; München: UVK (2013), 147 pp.
"Der Bedarf an non-fiktionalen Unterhaltungsformaten ist groß: Er beschränkt sich nicht mehr nur auf das klassische »On Air«-Fernsehen, sondern erstreckt sich zunehmend auf zusätzliche, onlinefähige Medienkanäle, die über Computer, Smartphones oder Tablets abgerufen werden können. Das erste
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Reality Television for Community Development: The Kwanda Initiative in South Africa
Nordicom Review, volume 33, issue Special issue (2012), pp. 149-162
"Kwanda was an innovative community development initiative of the Soul City Institute and partners. Five deprived communities were challenged to make their areas 'look better, feel better and work better’ by addressing health and development issues. Responses to this challenge were documented in a
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Global Television Formats: Understanding Television Across Borders
New York; London: Routledge (2012), xii, 392 pp.
"For decades, television scholars have viewed global television through the lens of cultural imperialism, focusing primarily on programs produced by US and UK markets and exported to foreign markets. Global Television Formats revolutionizes television studies by de-provincializing its approach to me
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Remote Control: Indian Television in the New Millennium
New Delhi et al.: Penguin (2012), xix, 353 pp.
Salam Shabab: Views and Voice of Iraqi Youth
Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2011), 5 pp.
"Salam Shabab (Peace Youth) is a unique reality TV series filmed in Iraq that brought together youth from six provinces of Iraq to compete for a chance to become youth “Ambassadors of Peace.” The views of young Iraqis participating in Salam Shabab, along with new surveys on youth perspectives, h
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Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2011), xiii, 288 pp.
"Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa examines the role that popular media could play to encourage political debate, provide information for development, or critique the very definitions of 'democracy' and 'development'. Drawing on diverse case studies from various regions of the Afric
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