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In today’s society media technologies like to attract people to participate. This attraction comes in the form of a thrill that conveys the idea anyone can become a celebrity. “It allows us to fantasize about gaining status through automatic fame.” (Balkin 2004. 26) This shows the view that all persons have the capacity to be creative. This is an important principle of the Creative Industries. This essay will argue that encouraging audiences and consumers to be creative participants effectively increases competition for Creative Industries professionals, reducing demand for their services. The essay will demonstrate this through 3 topics of discussion. Background of Reality TV and how it encourages average participants to be creative, the successful participants of these shows whose great success increases competition for professionals and, by this result the demand for the dance community in general is rising. This will be achieved through research and evidence supporting the thesis of argument.

“It has become commonplace to notice the increasing number of opportunities for ordinary people to appear in the Media.” (Turner 2010. 1) The encouragement for audiences and consumers to be creative is throughout the global technology process. “Reality TV can encourage positive virtues such as cooperation, helpfulness, and selflessness” (Balkin 2004. 37) “Televisions real value is to make people participant in ongoing experiences. Real life is vastly more exciting than synthetic life, and this is real life drama with audience participations.” (Murray and Ouellette 2009. 82). Reality TV consists of ordinary people in day-to-day lifestyles involving unscripted drama situations. The Atlantic Magazine in May 2007 issued “Reality televisi...

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Turner, Graeme 2010. Ordinary People and the Media: The Demotic Turn. Sage Publications.

Murray, Susan and Ouellette, Laurie. 2009. Reality TV; Remaking television culture. 2nd Ed. New York University

Hirschorn, Michael. 2007. “The case for Reality Tv- What the snobs don’t understand” The Atlantic Magazine, May. Accessed May 24th. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2007/05/the-case-for-reality-tv/5791/

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