www.ssoar.info Negotiating Belonging as Cultural Proximity in the Process of Adapting Global Reality TV Formats Suna, Laura Veröffentlichungsversion / Published Version Zeitschriftenartikel / journal article Empfohlene Zitierung / Suggested Citation: Suna, L. (2018). Negotiating Belonging as Cultural Proximity in the Process of Adapting Global Reality TV Formats. Media and Communication, 6(3), 30-39. https://doi.org/10.17645/mac.v6i3.1502 Nutzungsbedingungen: Terms of use: Dieser Text wird unter einer CC BY Lizenz (Namensnennung) zur This document is made available under a CC BY Licence Verfügung gestellt. Nähere Auskünfte zu den CC-Lizenzen finden (Attribution). For more Information see: Sie hier: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.de Media and Communication (ISSN: 2183–2439) 2018, Volume 6, Issue 3, Pages 30–39 DOI: 10.17645/mac.v6i3.1502 Article Negotiating Belonging as Cultural Proximity in the Process of Adapting Global Reality TV Formats Laura Sūna Institute for Media and Communication Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany; E-Mail:
[email protected] Submitted: 28 March 2018 | Accepted: 4 June 2018 | Published: 11 September 2018 Abstract This article focuses on aspects of belonging the producers of reality TV programmes address in the staging of emotions. Based on interview statements by 12 experts from the field of national and international reality TV format production, we argue as follows: on the one hand, producers in reality TV shows address belonging as a perceived cultural proximity to trans-local meta-narratives of a longing for change, romantic love, competition and victory. The producers associate these trans-local meta-narratives with allegedly universal emotions.