Chinese Boxes: Reality TV and Audience Participation

by Kuo Huang

Convergent media technologies have set up a media platform that supports interactive, participatory mediated communities. The world-wide popularity of reality TV shows is indicative of the spread of these cultural values and exemplifies the era of participating audiences ( ). This book investigates audience participation in two Chinese reality TV programmes, identifying audience participation as a form of informal role enactment. This is the first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3659629243
• ISBN13: 9783659629242
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"