Love Island: A Flirtation With Surveillance

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Further Watching:

Alice Cappelle's video on vloggers and the panopticon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDklDH4PVAs&ab_channel=AliceCappelle

Tara Mooknee's video on Love Island and hollow diversity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxPry8SXpTI&ab_channel=TaraMooknee

Ada on Demand's video on Love Island and misogynoir:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5vvCwIL8bE&t=61s&ab_channel=AdaOnDemand

Sources and Further Reading:

Deery, June. Reality TV, Polity Press, (2015)

Goldfine, Jael. "The Strange Magic of Iain Stirling’s Narration on Love Island UK," GQ (2021).

Jeong, Sarah. “‘Love Island’ Is a Riveting Human Rights Violation” The New York Times (2019).

Kavka, Misha. Reality TV, Edinburgh University Press (2012).

Klein, Amanda Ann. "Millennials Killed the Video Star", Duke University Press, (2021).

L'Hoiry, Xavier. “Love Island, Social Media, and Sousveillance: New Pathways of Challenging Realism in Reality TV” Frontiers, (2019).

Mathiesen, Thomas. (1997). “The Viewer Society: Michel Foucault’s ‘Panopticon’ Revisited.In: Theoretical Criminology, 1(2): 215‐234.

Poster, Mike. “Databases as Discourse, or Electronic Interpellations” U of Minnesota Press (1996).
https://researchvalues2018.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/poster-database-discourse.pdf

Stoppard, Lou. "The Glorious Depravity of the British “Love Island”," The New Yorker.

Wong, James . “Here's looking at you: Reality TV, Big Brother, and Foucault” . Canadian Journal of Communication ; Toronto Vol. 26, Iss. 4, (2001): 489-501.

Niall's interview:
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/love-island-niall-aslam-autism-psychotic-episode-b1875303.html

Zara's interview:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7042803/The-hateful-truth-Love-Island-Ex-Miss-GB-reveals-contestants-told-say.html

"Logistical Difficulties" quote:
https://www.them.us/story/love-island-producers-say-lgbtq-contestants-pose-difficulties

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