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“Can reality tv still be thought of as a genre given the high level of hybridity that exists?”  Reality TV is a unique genre due to the open-ended and wide reach of its definition. Kavka (2012) says reality TV has a “generic haziness” due to its format hybridity and the changing nature and quantity of its programs (p. 2). In other words, reality TV… Read more

Can reality tv still be thought of as a genre given the high level of hybridity that exists? “Television’s cultural forms have lost their former rigidity and are increasingly confounded. What was once kept apart is now mixed together”(Wood,2004). Among them, reality TV continues to change and evolve, converging different genres, and this hybridity creates… Read more