Reality’s children: young people and factual entertainment television

Anna Potter; Ben Goldsmith

doi:10.1177/1329878X17709618

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Reality’s children: young people and factual entertainment television

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Reality’s children: young people and factual entertainment television

Anna Potter and Ben Goldsmith

Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy, Vol.164(1), pp.44-55

2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X17709618

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Abstract

children and television

factual entertainment television

production culture

public service broadcasting

reality television

UniSC Diversity Area - Life Stages

This article addresses a deficit in television scholarship through its focus on children's engagements with contemporary factual entertainment television. The article seeks to indicate the contemporary diversity of children's engagements with factual television, to examine public service broadcasters' increasing use of children's performative labour in non-drama productions and to point the way for further research. The article begins with a survey of existing literature on children, television and factual entertainment in order to identify the lack of attention paid to this issue and these questions. In the next section, we draw on interviews conducted with television producers to frame our discussion of the ways in which analysis of factual entertainment featuring made for children can both instantiate and shed light on broader changes in television production, and in particular, public service broadcasting. The final section of the article analyses the policy context for children's engagements with factual entertainment television.

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Title: Reality’s children: young people and factual entertainment television
Authors: Anna Potter (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Ben Goldsmith (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts, Business and Law
Publication details: Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy, Vol.164(1), pp.44-55
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd.
Date published: 2017
DOI: 10.1177/1329878X17709618
ISSN: 1329-878X
Grants: International Transformations in Children’s Television 2013-18, DE160100313, Australian Research Council (Australia, Canberra) - ARC
Organisation Unit: School of Business and Creative Industries; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Creative Industries - Legacy
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99450699202621
Output Type: Journal article

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