[csaa-forum] 'Reality celebrity work and practices of care' ~ Dr Eleanor Kilroy (Loughborough); Dr Jilly Kay (Loughborough) & Prof Helen Wood (Aston)

[Rosemary Overell]

Kia ora

Please join us on Tuesday 15th October at 10am NZT (find your local time<https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html> here) for a Seminar on Reality celebrity work and practices of care delivered by Dr Eleanor Kilroy (Loughborough); Dr Jilly Kay (Loughborough) & Prof Helen Wood (Aston).

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Reality celebrity work and practices of care.
This paper discusses some of the findings from the early stages of the AHRC-funded project ReCARETV (2023-2026). The project holistically investigates care across the UK reality television (RTV) sector through a multidimensional analysis of policy, production and participation. Recent years have seen growing public scrutiny of the sector and attention has focussed on ‘duties of care’ towards individual participants. At the same time, new regulatory protocols are changing the landscape for RTV production, where broadcasters and production companies must ensure that participants – particularly those deemed as ‘vulnerable’ – are adequately informed and protected. While these approaches are focussed on individual psychology and risk avoidance, this paper puts the intersecting relations of the working practices in policy, production and the experiences of RTV participants in dialogue for the first time. We consider what this might mean for the recent calls to unionise RTV participants, as well as the implications for precarious and ‘illegitimate’ media work more broadly. Working with a feminist framework for care, we detail some early findings from the first stage of data collection across two of our work packages.

Dr Eleanor Kilroy<https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/communication-media/staff/eleanor-kilroy/> is Research Associate on the AHRC-funded project ‘Re-CARE TV: Reality Television, Working Practices and Duties of Care’ (2023-26) at Loughborough University. She also works as a Youth Participation Producer for Collective Encounters, a theatre company for social change. This work involves producing creative holiday programmes for cared for and care experienced young people in Liverpool.
Dr Jilly Kay<https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/communication-media/staff/jilly-kay/> is Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media at Loughborough University. She is co-investigator on the project ‘Re-CARE TV: Reality Television, Working Practices and Duties of Care’ (2023-26), within which she leads the work package on reality television participation. She has also published widely on feminism and popular culture, the gender politics of 'voice', feminism and anger, and most recently on 'reactionary feminism'.  She is co-lead of the Media, Memory and History research theme at Loughborough University, co-convenor of the Media and Gender research group, and co-editor of the European Journal of Cultural Studies.
Helen Wood<https://research.aston.ac.uk/en/persons/helen-wood> is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Aston in Birmingham, UK. She is Principal Investigator of the AHRC funded project ReCARETV and author of numerous books and articles on television, audiences, class and reality television, and has recently published the keyworks text for Routledge Audience (2024).

All welcome,

Ngā mihi

Rosie & Olivier.



Rosemary Overell<https://www.otago.ac.nz/mfco/staff/rosemaryoverell.html>
Senior Lecturer
Media, Film & Communication Programme
The University of Otago
Dunedin
New Zealand
9054

Latest publications:
Overell, R. (2024). ‘Don’t Worry Darling: The anxious question of what women want after #MeToo’. Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-024-00461-5
Millar, I., Nicholls, B., Overell, R., & Tutt, D. (2023). Power and politics in Adam Curtis' Can't get you out of my head: An emotional history of the modern world. In C. Owens & S. Meehan O'Callaghan (Eds.), Psychoanalysis and the small screen: The year the cinemas closed<https://www.routledge.com/Psychoanalysis-and-the-Small-Screen-The-Year-the-Cinemas-Closed/Owens-OCallaghan/p/book/9781032223223>. (pp. 163-189). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Overell, R. (2022). Methodological Masturbation<https://lackorg.com/2022/08/26/methodological-masturbation/>. LACK: punctual musings. 26th August.

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