The kinder, gentler gaze of Big Brother: Reality TV in the era of digital capitalism

New Media and Society

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 251-270

  Andrejevic, Mark ^a  

^a FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

'Big Brother'; 'Road Rules'; 'The Real World'; Digital capitalism; E commerce; MTV; Reality TV; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036283953     PISSN: 14614448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/14614440222226361     Document Type: Article

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