30. 04. 2013

REAL LIFE ON TV

Belgrade, April 30, 2013 (Politika) - Every fifth respondent in Serbia has never followed programs showing everyday life on TV in some experimental situation (systemic observation of small groups as a method of determining group dynamics), the telephone survey has shown.

This means that almost four-fifths (81 percent) of Serbian citizens constantly or sometimes follow these programs.

Two thirds of respondents follow the reality programs on internet, while one fourth (26 percent) said the reality programs were positively affecting young population as they were spending much less time on internet. Either way, these data are rather troublesome, as they point to aggressive ignorance.

The fact that over four-fifths (83 percent) of respondents watch these programs in the evening hours says that people are working during the day or are looking for work, which means they do not have either strength or money for some other form of entertainment, so they are watching reality programs instead, hoping that they would clear their heads from their everyday problems. Instead of programs that involve intellectual investment, people look for less engaging contents.

29 percent of respondents said these programs were fun and relaxing, while two fifths responded that they offered cheap and fast entertainment.

More than 50 percent of respondents said however that they liked watching how other people behaved or what they were doing, which is evidence of some sort of tendency to meddle in other people's lives. Only 31 percent of surveyed citizens believe that these contents are destroying already shattered system of values in the society, which only paves the way for oligarchy.