Multitudes 2012/4 No 51
Journal article

As a Duck Takes to Water

A Genealogical Overview of Daily Life in the Media

Pages 127 to 136

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  • DI VITTORIO, Pierangelo,
2012. As a Duck Takes to Water A Genealogical Overview of Daily Life in the Media. Multitudes, 2012/4 No 51, p.127-136. DOI : 10.3917/mult.051.0127. URL : https://shs.cairn.info/journal-multitudes-2012-4-page-127?lang=en.
  • Di Vittorio, Pierangelo.
« As a Duck Takes to Water : A Genealogical Overview of Daily Life in the Media ». Multitudes, 2012/4 No 51, 2012. p.127-136. CAIRN.INFO, shs.cairn.info/journal-multitudes-2012-4-page-127?lang=en.
  • Di Vittorio, P.
(2012). As a Duck Takes to Water a Genealogical Overview of Daily Life in the Media. Multitudes, No 51(4), 127-136. https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.051.0127.

https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.051.0127

Abstract
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Cite this article

  • Di Vittorio, P.
(2012). As a Duck Takes to Water a Genealogical Overview of Daily Life in the Media. Multitudes, No 51(4), 127-136. https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.051.0127.
  • Di Vittorio, Pierangelo.
« As a Duck Takes to Water : A Genealogical Overview of Daily Life in the Media ». Multitudes, 2012/4 No 51, 2012. p.127-136. CAIRN.INFO, shs.cairn.info/journal-multitudes-2012-4-page-127?lang=en.
  • DI VITTORIO, Pierangelo,
2012. As a Duck Takes to Water A Genealogical Overview of Daily Life in the Media. Multitudes, 2012/4 No 51, p.127-136. DOI : 10.3917/mult.051.0127. URL : https://shs.cairn.info/journal-multitudes-2012-4-page-127?lang=en.

https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.051.0127

French
English

Pioneers of reality TV, like the producers of Candid Camera in the 1950s, soon learned to activate a charisma of reality which continues to magnetize an increasing number of our contemporaries. Such TV shows have been developed in close interaction with experiments in social psychology and in hypnosis. A major synergy took place between the social sciences, media technologies, and power mechanisms, a synergy this article attempts to analyze in its historical as well as theoretical implications.

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https://doi.org/10.3917/mult.051.0127

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