The Value of Reality TV: Andy Dehnart at TEDxStetsonU

Andy Dehnart's writing about television, culture, and media has appeared on NPR and in Playboy, The Daily Beast, and other publications. Andy publishes and writes realityblurred.com; directs the journalism program at Stetson University in Florida, where he also teaches creative nonfiction and journalism; and is an improviser who performs at SAK Comedy Lab in Orlando, Fla.

This talk is about the power of reality television and its ability to teach us about our collective human experience; it suggests we change the way we watch reality TV to be simultaneously more critical and more empathetic.

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