Book Review: Authenticity and How We Fake It: Belief and Subjectivity in Reality TV, Facebook and YouTube by Aaron Duplantier

Hernandez-Perez, Manuel

Abstract

TV reality shows, so popular at the end of the nineties, gave rise to a fruitful academic tradition of which this book forms a part. Aaron Duplantier, a PhD in English and currently an instructor at the University of Houston, contributes to this tradition. His main research topic is the construction of mediated subjectivity, with special attention to the different forms of consumption and social meaning of reality TV shows. In this book, the author explores his leitmotif while identifying this television genre with other postmodern phenomena.

Citation

Hernandez-Perez, M. (2018). Book Review: Authenticity and How We Fake It: Belief and Subjectivity in Reality TV, Facebook and YouTube by Aaron Duplantier. Journalism & mass communication quarterly, 95(3), 853-855. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699018764310

• Acceptance Date: Feb 8, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Mar 30, 2018
• Publication Date: 2018
• Deposit Date: Feb 8, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 13, 2018
• Print ISSN: 1077-6990
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 95
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 853-855
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699018764310
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/587833