Published: 2020-06-28

Characteristics of the Jersey Shore format

Jenifer Wyderka
Studia Krytyczne/Critical Studies
Section: Temat numeru
DOI https://doi.org/10.25167/sk.2118

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to define the Jersey Shore format and to examine its reception
among focus groups. In particular, the analysis covered the ethical aspect of the
format and its role in the functioning of the individual as well as the group of recipients.
Research conducted with the help of the group interview method (FGI) on two groups of
students is based on three research areas that determine respondents’ attitude to the
Jersey Shore format, examine the level of student identification with presented behaviors
of reality show participants and enable locating the discussed reality between program
creation and reality, and also examine the viewers’ sensitivity and their sense of ethics
in relation to the Jersey Shore format. The research helps determine the specificity of
the program, defining it on the basis of personal emotions of the respondents, whose important conclusions seem to be a common reflection on the phenomenon of the format
and its future.e

Keywords:

Reality TV, Jersey Shore, patterns of behaviour,, sex, obscenity

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Wyderka, J. (2020). Characteristics of the Jersey Shore format. Studia Krytyczne/Critical Studies, (8), 116–136. https://doi.org/10.25167/sk.2118

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