Reality television is a television programming that presents purportedly unscripted melodramatic or " humorous " situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded.

Reality television began in 1948 with Alan Funt's TV series Candid Camera.

Reality television frequently portrays a modified and highly influenced form of day-to-day life, at times utilizing sensationalism to attract audience viewers and increase advertising revenue.

Reality television as it is currently understood can be directly linked to several television shows that began in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Reality television had a decline in viewership in 2001.

Reality shows with low ratings included The Amazing Race, Lost ( unrelated to the better-known serial drama of the same name ) and The Mole, leading some to speculate that reality television was a temporary fad that had run its course.

There have been at least three television channels devoted exclusively to reality television: Fox Reality in the United States, launched in 2005, Global Reality Channel in Canada in 2010, and Zone Reality in the United Kingdom, launched in 2002.

Reality television shows like The Real World have received criticism for being staged.

Reality television shows have faced speculation that the participants themselves are involved in fakery, acting out storylines that have been planned in advance by producers.

Reality television has the potential to turn its participants into national celebrities, at least for a short period.

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* Bobby Jon Drinkard, contestant on Reality television shows Survivor: Palau and Survivor: Guatemala

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1993 also saw Columbia University's augmented-reality system known as KARMA: Knowledge-based Augmented Reality for Maintenance Assistance.

For high-end use, Elastic Reality ( based on MorphPlus ) saw its first feature film use in In The Line of Fire ( 1993 ) and was used in Quantum Leap ( work performed by the Post Group ).

This saw the beginning of a productive two years for the band and they recorded three albums: The Tourists, Reality Effect, and Luminous Basement, as well as half a dozen singles, including " Blind Among the Flower " ( 1979 ), " The Loneliest Man in the World " ( 1979 ), " Don't Say I Told You So " ( 1980 ), and two major hits, the Dusty Springfield cover " I Only Want to Be with You " ( 1979 ) and " So Good to Be Back Home Again " ( 1980 ), both of which reached the top 10 in the UK.

Reality soon sat in though as home and away defeats to the Cary Clarets, 3-1 at home and a trio of poor officials saw them lose 6-1 down in North Carolina.

Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann in their Social Construction of Reality ( 1966 ) saw the relationships between structure and agency as a dialectical one.

He created Reality Blurred in July 2000, and the daily-updated site quickly became a primary source for devotees of the reality TV explosion.

Reality television's global success has been, in the eyes of some analysts, an important political phenomenon.

Meanwhile, we learn that Gridlife is a futuristic musical about a global Virtual Reality system which provides its subscribers with entire lifetimes of karmically tailored experience.

* SPIE / IS & T Stereoscopic Displays and Virtual Reality Applications annual global conference

In this way Project Reality is unique to most games, and is what continues to attract a wide global audience.

In 1994, with Ward back on drums, the band reunited to make some concert appearances to captilize on " My Sharona "' s new popularity after its appearance in the movie Reality Bites.

To continue the list of Reality TV stars hosting programmes, Jodie Marsh announced that she would be presenting a new programme called Get A Life starting on 1 March 2007.

Low-flow seeps, however ( e. g. French Reality, Banff ; Moonlight / Snowline, Kananaskis ), often form early in the season ( September – November ) when the flow is good from latent summer heat, and then slow down or even stop with the deepening winter frost ; subsequent ablation ( and destruction by climbing ) of the ice often makes for thinner and brittler ice with time.

* Jones, Richard H. ( 2000 ), Reductionism: Analysis and the Fullness of Reality.

* Searle ( 2000 ) Reality Principles: An Interview with John R. Searle Reason. com February 2000 issue, accessed online on 30-08-2010

* 1st International Symposium on Augmented Reality ( ISAR 2000 ), Munich, Germany, October 2000.

2 ) Pierre Laval & Politics of Reality 1935 – 1936, New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2000

* Reality Hackers, an earlier name for Mondo 2000 magazine.

* Republics of Reality: 1975-1995 ( Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 2000 )

* Kuruvilla Pandikattu, 2000 Idols to Die, Symbols to Live: Dynamic Interaction between Language, Reality, and the Divine.

* Trading Reality ( 2000 )

Doth went on to DJ for Dutch radio station Radio 538, recorded a single with reggae artist Mad Cobra and in 2000 released a solo album called Reality.

Earth 2150 also known as Earth 2150: Escape from the Blue Planet is a real-time strategy game, originally published in 2000 by SSI and the Polish developer Reality Pump and a sequel to the largely unknown Earth 2140.

* Before Mondo 2000, was Reality Hackers, and High Frontiers.

* Anthony Hecht: Sentenced To Reality, the New York Review of Books, 2 November 2000

In 2000, the Vision and Reality at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art also became a traveling exhibition.

* Reality Therapy in Action, 2000 ( Re-issued in 2001 as Counseling with Choice Theory )

* Animorphs: Shattered Reality ( PlayStation, 2000 )

" Designing Augmented Reality Environments ( DARE 2000 ), Helsingør.

* Denise Riley: Selected Poems, London: Reality Street, 2000.

In his 2000 book Holding onto Reality, Borgmann uses the concept of the device paradigm to analyze an emerging postmodern culture heavily reliant on digital tools.

Group exhibitions include Tatort London, Galerie Schübbe, Düsseldorf, GER ( 1996 ); Die Schärfe der Unschärfe, Kunstmuseum Solothurn ( 1998 ); Swiss Contemporary Art, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul ( 1998 ); Schafft Land !, Stadtmuseum Siegburg, GER ( 2000 ); L ' Imagine ritrovata Museo cantonale d ' Arte, Lugano, CH ( 2002 ); Big is beautiful Musée d ' art et d ' histoire de la Ville de Neuchâtel, CH ( 2002 ); Flower Myth-van Gogh to Jeff Koons, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, CH ( 2005 ); Reprocessing Reality, P. S. 1 MoMA, New York ( 2006 ); Fade Away and Radiate, Cohan and Leslie Gallery, New York ( 2007 ); Mythologies, Haunch of Venison Burlington Gardens, London ( 2009 ); Courtauld Institute of Art, London ( 2010 ); Watercolour, Tate Britain, London ( 2011 ); Haunch of Venison, Eastcastle Street, London ( 2012 )