일반인 리얼리티 연애 프로그램의 시청자 경험에 대한 연구: 20~30대 시청자 심층 인터뷰를 중심으로

초록

Recently, it is becoming a phenomenon that reality love programs starring ordinary people play important roles in mainstream media contents. This study explores viewers’ viewing experience of these programs with in-depth interviews. Unmarried and married people in their 20’s and 30’s who watched reality dating programs participated in the interviews. Results show that viewers felt a sense of identity in that the performers were ordinary people and experienced empathy by substituting their daily conversations and behaviors for their own cases. Empathy was not limited only to love, but also to the level of interpersonal learning. Viewers were also experiencing self-reflection and vicarious satisfaction based on their empathy for the performers. This empathy sometimes leads to over-empathy. These results show that the media can form and change individual values and contribute to the formation of social values.

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