Ordinary people on television
Ordinary people on TV: Participants in Norwegian Blind date
I am involved in a research project about the Norwegian version of the television dating game Blind date. A book was published in Norwegian in 2001 based on data from this project:
Eva Bakøy and Trine Syvertsen (eds.) Sjekking på TV: Offentlig ydmykelse eller bare en lek? En studie av Reisesjekken - programformat, deltakere, produsenter, sponsorer og publikum. Oslo: UniPub Forlag.
An article in English discussing the experiences of the participants in the programme appears in the journal Media, Culture and Society:
Syvertsen, Trine (2001) 'Ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances: a study of participants in television dating games', i Media, Culture and Society 23(3)
For Norwegian material go to Vanlige folk
The project has been funded by the Norwegian Council for Applied Media Research (RAM)