Does Reality Backbite? Physical, Verbal, and Relational Aggression in Reality Television Programs

Coyne, Sarah M.; Robinson, Simon L.; Nelson, David A.

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“…Relational aggression is commonly portrayed on television [e.g. Coyne et al, 2010], and in some movies [Coyne and Whitehead, 2008], and is often portrayed as justified, a characteristic that has been shown to increase subsequent imitation by viewers . Indeed, viewing relational aggression in the media is associated with enactment of aggressive behavior in real life.…”

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Media depictions of physical and relational aggression: connections with aggression in young adults' romantic relationships

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Various studies have found that viewing physical or relational aggression in the media can impact subsequent engagement in aggressive behavior. However, this has rarely been examined in the context of relationships. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to examine the connection between viewing various types of aggression in the media and perpetration of aggression against a romantic partner. A total of 369 young adults completed a variety of questionnaires asking for their perpetration of various forms of relationship aggression. Participants' exposure to both physical and relational aggression in the media was also assessed. As a whole, we found a relationship between viewing aggression in the media and perpetration of aggression; however, this depended on the sex of the participant and the type of aggression measured. Specifically, exposure to physical violence in the media was related to engagement in physical aggression against their partner only for men. However, exposure to relational aggression in the media was related to romantic relational aggression for both men and women.

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“…Other important reasons are vengeance and morbid curiosity (Crook et al 2004;Reiss and Wiltz 2004). Most violence enacted in reality television is verbal, which explains the increase in the level of conflict and rudeness found in the shows (Coyne et al 2010). (Non)-verbal violence heightens arousal, which is closely tied to levels of attention (Mutz and Reeves 2005), for our brain does not seem to react differently to non-mediated and mediated violence (Reeves and Nass 1996).…”

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Identity and impoliteness: The expert in the talent show Idol

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Premised on the belief that both identity construction and im/politeness assessments relate to norms associated with genre practices, the aim of this paper is to examine the interconnections between identity co-construction and impoliteness in a media genre: the talent show. This aim is innovative in so far as im/politeness has traditionally been related to the notion of face, rather than identity. Our study draws upon a corpus of 160 interactional sequences from the UK and US versions of the talent show Idol. All sequences in the data include music expert Simon Cowell, who has been singled out as playing the role of the malicious judge by both journalists and scholars. However, to our knowledge, no previous study has undertaken a micro-analysis of the linguistic resources deployed by Simon Cowell to construct his expert identity or has examined the role that impoliteness may play therein. This is what we set out to do in this paper. To that end, our analytic framework combines socio-constructivist approaches to identity construction (Anton and Peterson 2003;Joseph 2004;Bucholtz and Hall 2005; De Fina et al. 2006) with a recently revised, discursive approach to im/politeness, i.e., the genre approach (Garcés-Conejos Blitvich 2010, this issue).

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“…Another reason for the increasing number of reality TV shows is the fact that these kinds of programs can be produced at a fairly low cost, and thus, are highly profitable (e.g., Hall, 2009;Coyne et al, 2010). On the one hand, there is no need for an expensive script since the plot equates to the actors' supposed daily life.…”

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Glorifying the Simple Life

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Does Reality Backbite? Physical, Verbal, and Relational Aggression in Reality Television Programs

Cited by 59 publications

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Media depictions of physical and relational aggression: connections with aggression in young adults' romantic relationships

Media depictions of physical and relational aggression: connections with aggression in young adults' romantic relationships

Identity and impoliteness: The expert in the talent show Idol

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