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How have they constructed our conceptualisation of reality (or at least what we recognise as being real at the visual level)?

I am sorry; I really can't understand what the meaning of this question is. So I decide to answer it in my first understanding. In Hill (2005), there are three ways to classify reality TV: the television industry, scholars and audience.

The television industry’s real may be the real thing which can make the programme. The television industry is flexible in its categorisation of reality TV. The television scholars can show its “real” in a variety of different ways. This one comes from the real life and real person. At last, the television audience is the real people who appreciate this kind of programme.

How does Hill define reality TV?

There are most definition of reality TV in Hill (2005), I will list it and then summarize one which has the main point of this paper.

1. The category of reality TV is commonly used to describe a range of popular factual programming.

2. In the early stage of the genre, reality TV was associated with on-scene footage of law and order, or emergency services. More recently, reality TV is associated with anything and everything, from people to pets, from birth to death.

3. The reality genre is made of a number of distinctive and historically based television genres, such as lifestyle, or documentary, these television genres have merged with each other to create a number of hybrid genres that we now call reality TV.

So the reality TV is a range of popular factual programme which combine several television genres, which include everything from every area.