A diamond in the rough: Inauthenticity and Gems TV

IF 3.4 4区管理学 Q2 BUSINESS

Marketing Theory Pub Date : 2022-11-01 DOI:10.1177/14705931221137375

B. Canavan

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Abstract

This paper explores inauthenticity in the context of the Gems TV shopping channel using existential phenomenology. Objectively, subjectively and performatively Gems TV fails to convincingly stage a sense of authenticity. This is a televisual format featuring clearcut commercialism, obscure gemstones and opaque verification. Insincere screen performances are not only entertaining, but shoddiness and unpredictability of programming provides backstage glimpses that paradoxically stimulate fantasies of authenticity. Moments of intrapersonal and interpersonal connection arise around viewing. Accordingly, research into the neglected side of the authenticity-inauthenticity dialectic demonstrates that the latter may be a miasma of meanings as complex, contradictory and evocative as the former.

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未经雕琢的钻石:不真实与宝石电视

本文运用存在主义现象学的方法，探讨了宝石电视购物频道背景下的不真实性。无论从客观、主观还是表演角度来看，Gems TV都未能令人信服地展现真实感。这是一种电视形式，具有清晰的商业性、晦涩的宝石和不透明的验证。疯狂的屏幕表演不仅有趣，而且节目的粗制滥造和不可预测性提供了后台一瞥，矛盾地激发了对真实性的幻想。在观看的过程中产生了个人和人际关系的时刻。因此，对真实-不真实辩证法被忽视的一面的研究表明，后者可能是一种与前者一样复杂、矛盾和令人回味的含义。

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Marketing Theory BUSINESS-

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