The Key Concepts for week 3 are Media, Culture and Society, so i sat and thought what exactly i could write about. What affects all three of these concepts, then i thought about Big Brother!
Big Brother encompasses all of these key concepts: media, culture and society. For one, they create their own sort of society. They are cut off from all outside contact, no internet, to papers, no TV; all they have is each other. All different types of people are put in the house to live together, to vie for Head of Household, and in the end hope to win half a million dollars, by outwitting everyone else. Different cultures, different backgrounds, different everything are all in one house forced to live with each other.
The show basically follows the lives of these people as they live in the house together. There are TV's everywhere that following EVERYTHING they do.
This past season took the show to a different level by separating the houseguests into their old high school cleeks. The jocks and popular kids, the nerds and so on. This gave a different dynamic to the 'society' that they were living in.
I know there are a lot of people in our class who love this show so i thought this was a very fitting blog!
A. Rau
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I definitely agree that Big Brother encompasses media, culture and society. There is a dependence on instrucitons from the host who connects with the contestants through technology which covers media. She also dictates the culture of the house, introducing new twists and turns in the game. Lastly, once a person takes part in Big Brother, they become part of a select few who have undergone one of the most intense experiences under the watchful eye of millions which is a culture in itself.
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