Reality TV: Ethics or Entertainment?
Eliane Mitchell

05 July 2017

To say that reality TV shows can be "morally fraught" in their practices is an understatement. Publicizing and, in essence, commodifying people's lives, reality shows raise ethical issues by intruding upon their particpants' privacy and by manipulating their participants' behavior—all for the purposes of inciting gossip, tears, and drama. But are reality shows so morally vexed that they should be abolished? Or, if they are to stay, under what practices and ethical limitations may reality shows justifiably operate?

This paper from the University of Brusselsanalyzes the treatment of reality show participants under four categories of potential harm, including intrusion, humiliation, misrepresentation, and appropriation. While the paper argues that publicizing private life is "not unethicalper se相比迎合观众对冲突和戏剧的渴望，节目制作人有更大的责任来防止节目参与者受到伤害。这也意味着，正如论文所指出的那样，真人秀节目制作人应该警惕类型化的影响，这可能会使“社会中特定群体的社会或文化贬值”持续下去，并将秘密录制作为对参与者自决的侵犯。

但这些限制会如何改变你最喜欢的电视真人秀?世界杯赛程2022赛程表欧洲区我们不经常看真人秀来寻找它所创造的古怪的人物和情境吗?阅读这篇文章，在下面的评论中告诉我们你的想法。

Full link to paper here:http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/2444

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