Shaming the working class in post-socialist Reality Television
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F21%3A10410261" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/21:10410261 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=WmTDsblyy6" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=WmTDsblyy6</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367549420902790" target="_blank" >10.1177/1367549420902790</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Shaming the working class in post-socialist Reality Television
Original language description
This article examines the ways in which working class participants are shamed in Czech Reality TV programmes. Previous research demonstrates that everyday Reality TV is an exercise in neoliberal governmentality and respective technology of the self, which advances the idea of the entrepreneurial self as a capital investment project and a brand. The article seeks to illuminate the process of stigmatisation of those who do not comply with these norms in the cultural setting of post-socialist neoliberalism. It builds on the arguments contending that neoliberal capitalism was implemented in the post-socialist part of Europe with higher momentum and stronger hegemonic power than in the West. The research looks at the acts of shaming working classes in three different Reality TV programmes as the dynamics through which class positions are moulded in a culture with a yet emerging class structure. The qualitative analysis of shaming interactions reveals that a working class position in the post-socialist cultural setting is articulated predominantly to excessive preservation of habits dating back to the period of socialism or, however, insufficient employment of the innovations and opportunities brought about by capitalism. Qualitative clustering of the targets of shaming resulted in four different types of self - marketised self, depaternalised self, unclassed self and (desperately) inegalitarian self - which the analysed Reality TV programmes endorse as the ideal facets of post-socialist personhood. The master homology between the genre of makeover reality show and post-socialism is detected as both systems are entrenched in the values of a complete overhaul of an individual or society.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50802 - Media and socio-cultural communication
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA17-02521S" target="_blank" >GA17-02521S: Poverty as Media Spectacle: Shaming the Low-Income People on Reality Television and Internet</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
European Journal of Cultural Studies
ISSN
1367-5494
e-ISSN
1460-3551
Volume of the periodical
24
Issue of the periodical within the volume
5
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
1071-1088
UT code for WoS article
000523892900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85082339287