CRM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Joseph Wapner, Scapegoating, Symbolic Power
16 Apr 2018
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The reality tv courtroom as a cultural text. Powerful example of have law permeates daily life. Many individuals experience law in civil context rather than criminal ones. Reality tv is a form of unscripted drama" with potent legal and moral messages. Daytime tv audiences traditionally consist of household female audience and viewers who are socially marginalized. The shows speak to a segment of the population that had traditionally be denied a powerful role in civic and legal affairs . Civil law is relegated to the margins/daytime television (in contrast with criminal shows during primetime slots) African american males comprise larger portion of audience for people"s courts than for. There are many more viewers form judge judy than for the people"s court. The majority of judges in the legal system are white males. But for reality tv, there are mainly female judges and, to a lesser extent, african.
