Research Project

My theory is that reality shows like Jersey Shore, The Hills and the Bad Girls Club tend to glamorize, promote and make celebrity people who get drunk, have fowl language, fight and engage in promiscuous sex in a way that teenagers look up to them and want to mimic them in the hopes of becoming a celebrity themselves. I would do content analysis with various groups of teenagers of different gender, age and sex. I would give them a selection of shows to watch and see how many times they actually select the reality type shows over other types of shows. I would then do a series of interviews and questionaires to determine how close to reality they believe these programs to be, how important money, alcohol and sex are and if they would like to lead similar lives. This day and age younger generations think popularity is achieved by acting in a way like these shows.