Research Paper 2.0

Well, after looking back at what i was going to do for my research topics, I realized that those were some gosh darn boring topics. And so after some thumb twiddling and thinking, I came up with a couple of ideas that are more outside the box, and those ideas happen to be:

1. Game Shows
2. Reality Television

If I had to pick between the two, I would rather research reality TV, but game shows wouldn't be far beyond.

I've been searching the Internet for things dealing with reality TV, trying to get an idea of what exactly is out there. It's really easy to find general information about the shows and peoples reviews and opions, but when I try to search for specific information about reality tv, like statistics, is it good or bad?, what sort of studies are there?, etc. etc., I can't really find much. Mind you, this is all coming from searches related to Google. Some of the helpful things I did find are sites like: Reality Check, Reality TV Impact, and How Real is Reality TV. These are helpful, but not exactly material to base a whole reseach paper about. I have come across references to Media Psychology, a journal that I could see to be potentially quite useful. Unfortunately, I can't find the full article/story online that I think would be most useful.

I looked through EBSCO, but I didn't find anything there. Either I was just searching for the wrong kind of material, which is probably the case, or they really don't have anything worthwhile concerning reality TV. I feel like hard copy sources are going to be more useful for me if i want to pursue this topic than online sources are going to be.

I think the biggest obstactle for me in this search has been a focus problem. I know I want to do something with reality tv, but I feel like this is a large topic, and feel that I lack a clear focus and goal of what I really want to find out about it.