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Cynthia M. Frisby'
Getting Real with Reality TV
Cynthia M. Frisby
Category:
Mass Media
Published:
September 2004
While viewers realize they are not the Next Top Model, American Idol, or All American Girl, they do enjoy the fact that, through a vicarious social comparison process, they can fall in love, win $1,000,000, or get the office snitch fired.