From Interactivity to Freakshow: Ethical Aspects of New Television Trends from the Perspective of ...

@article{11210,
   author = {Motal, Jan},
   article_number = {1},
   keywords = {television; interactivity; ethics; democratic competence; moral philosophy; reality tv; docusoap; freakshow},
   language = {eng},
   issn = {1805-3742},
   journal = {Czech and Slovak Journal of Humanities},
   title = {From Interactivity to Freakshow: Ethical Aspects of New Television Trends from the Perspective of Democratic Competence},
   volume = {2017},
   year = {2017}
}

TY  - JOUR
ID  - 11210
AU  - Motal, Jan
PY  - 2017
TI  - From Interactivity to Freakshow: Ethical Aspects of New Television Trends from the Perspective of Democratic Competence
JF  - Czech and Slovak Journal of Humanities
VL  - 2017
IS  - 1
SP  - 44-53
EP  - 44-53
SN  - 18053742
KW  - television
KW  - interactivity
KW  - ethics
KW  - democratic competence
KW  - moral philosophy
KW  - reality tv
KW  - docusoap
KW  - freakshow
N2  - The paper outlines selected ethical aspects of interactivity as a principle. It applies content from Philippe Breton's perspective of the theory of democratic competence in the transformation of technology and contemporary television broadcasting. In terms of the moral philosophy of media, the author views interactivity as a claim on acting and disturbing the space for inner human contemplation integrating one's experience into identity (interiority). Interactivity in this concept may disrupt democratic competence. The author traces this problematic aspect of interactivity specifically in new television formats focusing namely on local production. The author attempts to demonstrate how, due to the reality TV show in particular and its accentuated narrative of success and conflict, interactivity is becoming the prevailing principle and in extreme cases turning into a freakshow. The paper describes the negative relationship between these phenomena and democratic competence.
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MOTAL, Jan. From Interactivity to Freakshow: Ethical Aspects of New Television Trends from the Perspective of Democratic Competence. \textit{Czech and Slovak Journal of Humanities}. 2017, vol.~2017, No~1, p.~44-53. ISSN~1805-3742.