Reality TV Engagement: Producer and Audience Relations for Reality Talent Shows

Reality TV as Advertainment

Israeli-Arab Relations; from Dream to Reality

Abstract:This study intends to review Israel's efforts to increase political and economic relations with Arab countries. It is clear that most Arab countries did not have any ties with Israel since the 1980s, and only two Egyptian states had established political relations with Israel since the 1973 war. But over the past few years, and especially after the start of the third millennium, ...

The reality of relations THE REALITY OF RELATIONS

Discussing the contemporary debate about the metaphysics of relations and structural realism, I analyse the philosophical significance of relational quantum mechanics (RQM). Relativising properties of objects (or systems) to other objects (or systems), RQM affirms that reality is inherently relational. My claim is that RQM can be seen as an instantiation of the ontology of ontic structural real...

Why People Watch Reality TV

We assessed the appeal of reality TV by asking 239 adults to rate themselves on each of 16 basic motives using the Reiss Profile standardized instrument and to rate how much they watched and enjoyed various reality television shows. The results suggested that the people who watched reality television had above-average trait motivation to feel self-important and, to a lesser extent, vindicated, ...

A Global Talent Shortage: Myth or Reality?

Globally, employers within the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields desire to hire skilled talent, but have difficulty locating and attracting it. In short, they complain of a talent shortage. But is this assessment accurate? Do the world’s labor markets suffer from a shortage of STEM skills or rather a skill mismatch, with a shortage in specific regions while other r...