Evie PsarrasDePaul University · Media & Cinema Studies
Evie Psarras
Ph.D. Communication
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Introduction
Evie Psarras currently works at the Department of Communication , University of Illinois at Chicago. Evie does research in Popular and Celebrity Culture, Qualitative Social Research, and New Media and Communication. Their most recent publication is 'From a Western Phenomenon to a Global Phenomenon: A Comparative Cultural Analysis of Reality TV in the USA and China.'
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This study analyses eighteen in-depth interviews with adults in the Midwest who watch Bravo’s reality (RTV) docusoap franchise Real Housewives. Shifting the gaze away from RTV effects and towards the proliferation of RTV, RTV stars (celetoids) and what Graeme Turner calls the
‘demotic turn’, this study examines the show’s appeal and whether a laten...
Abstract: This article examines the globalization of reality television by comparing popular reality shows in the United States and China. This research attempts to transcend common debates concerning globalization (i.e., cultural homogenization and glocalization) by emphasizing what exists on the margins of these arguments. The author instead focu...
Despite popular interest in reality television, social media, and self-branding, much scholarship focuses on a single platform and places the burden of self-branding on the individual alone. Drawing on 6 years of research into the Real Housewives (RH) franchise and interviews with "Housewives," I focus on the women's performances of identity and se...
Cameo is part of a growing set of new media platforms trending toward direct routes for monetizing fame. Cameo allows fans to book personalized shout-out videos and provides celebrities-celetoids and reality stars in particular-access to new modes of income, which became increasingly important amid the pandemic. This research explores how the direc...
Despite vast research on reality television (RTV) and The Bachelor (2002) franchise specifically, most scholarship focuses on its appeal or negative impact on viewers. The inclusion of social media analysis is under-used in research on the series or any of its offshoots. Our work, however, analyzes how the women of The Bachelorette make the transit...
