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This chapter explores the production of representations of classed identities and of the consequences of social inequalities on Reality Television. Although misrepresentations and shaming of working-class persons on Reality Television have been analysed in previous research, there is a lack of attempts at trying to understand and explain the existence of these representations within the genre, especially through research on the production of Reality Television. This chapter employs a socio-cognitive perspective on media production through which we seek to explain how the socially situated perspective of media producers is translated into the products that come out of media institutions.
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Jakobsson, P., Stiernstedt, F. (2021). Shaming Working-Class People on Reality Television: Perspectives from Swedish Television Production. In: Reifová, I., Hájek, M. (eds) Mediated Shame of Class and Poverty Across Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73543-2_7
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