Sentence examples for conventions of reality from inspiring English sources

In 2004, when Andrejevic's book was published, the conventions of reality television were still being codified.

This kind of self-consciousness could be the death knell for reaction videos, in the same way that the initial frisson of reality TV was killed, almost immediately, by contestants' increasing familiarity with the conventions of reality TV.

Tim Jones from THEM Anime Reviews found the second season funny and nonrepetitive, and Bamboo Dong of Anime News Network praised the second season for not conforming to the conventions of reality.

When it premiered, we couldn't decide what horrified us more: the idea of children abandoned in the desert to fend for themselves, or the fact that those children seemed to have imbibed, with mother's milk, the conventions of reality television--each and every one displayed an instinctive grasp of the showboating, solipsism, and self-mythologizing that reality television requires of its "stars".

One anchors the unfamiliar in the current conventions of reality.

On Monday, though, his party's communications director, Pia Gulbrandsen, admitted that the video, in which only mild disagreements with the prime minister were voiced, obeyed the conventions of staged reality television rather than those of observational documentary.

In casting a partying wise guy, Charlie O'Connell, as the new "Bachelor," the producers may have thought a lighthearted approach to the past-its-prime conventions of the reality dating show would be a breath of fresh air to viewers.

Contrast this then with the conventions and reality of much writing in academic journals.

David Carr on why political conventions should embrace the ethos of reality TV.

From its first season, "The Real World" pioneered the stylistic conventions that have since become clichés of reality programming: the "confessional" interview, the meaningful song lyric used to underscore an interpersonal crisis, the experimental friendship between a former bigot and a minority member.

The standardized test conditions of the harmonized leaching tests are, therefore, not to be considered a simulation of reality, but as a helpful convention that allows further modeling of the data.