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How Does the TV Show 'Big Brother' Show Demonstrate Theories Of Culture And Communication?

How Does the TV Show 'Big Brother' Show Demonstrate Theories Of Culture And Communication?

Introduction

The TV show Big Brother is an internationally successful and emitted in almost 70 countries, but also controversial television format. It was the first time in 1999 in the Netherlands broadcast. The rights of each of the locally produced show a Netherlands company Endemol Entertainment. In Germany , Big Brother on the private channel RTL II and since the fifth season to premiere and from the tenth season at Sky Germany (formerly Premiere) and Clipfish than 24-hour live stream , the round-the-Clock pictures from the big- Brother house sends broadcast. This is from one country to another slightly different concept of the program is that a group of people to receive several months in a residential area television studio ("container") are alive, often structured and broken up by default by the production company contests and games. The lives of the participants in the round-the-clock recorded by television cameras and regularly as a compilation of "highlights" in the television broadcast (Johnson-Woods, Toni, 2002, p. 256).

The title is inspired by the work of George Orwell, 1984. The novel tells of a Big Brother, the head of state totalitarianism of Oceania through cameras that continuously monitors and suppresses the free will of its citizens. The slogan of the book "Big Brother is watching you" fits the mechanism of the television program, in which the authors of the transmission (the Big Brother of course) have control of the situation in the House (Johnson-Woods, Toni, 2002, p. 256).

Discussion

Participants live in a big house closed 24 hours on 24, observed by several cameras that can take them anywhere in your house is located. They cannot, by definition, have no contact with the outside, although this rule has gradually subsided after the first edition, however, and are also completely banned and prohibited any kind of mobile phones, watches, computers, phones, CD, MP3 (etc.), also is not present and therefore is completely banned and prohibited, the use of any type of television inside the house (except for a series of screens closed circuit, by the conductors used for communicate with them). Participants can make their confidences to "Big Brother", who coordinates and decides the course of the game, said in a soundproof room confessional, whose design has remained unchanged over the editions (chair in the center and red walls) , while the appearance of the rest of the house has changed over time. The initial number of competitors in the first edition was 10, and then it became 12 and then 16 (Johnson-Woods, Toni, 2002, p. 256). During the course of the reality, however, Big Brother can bring many more competitors, and the eleventh edition has reached a total of 35 competitors who attended and participated in the television program, throughout the course edition. The mechanism of elimination is limited by competing with the nomination, during which each choose one, two or ...