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Pierangelo Di Vittorio, « As a Duck Takes to Water : A Genealogical Overview of Daily Life in the Media », Multitudes, ID : 10670/1.15d3c4...
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.