Vote for me: playing at politics
Vote for me: playing at politics
In the run-up to the 2005 General Election, one of the United Kingdom’s main television channels broadcast, over the course of a week, a program called Vote for Me. It was a political version of reality television showssuch as Big Brother, Pop Idol, and Fame Academy. Contestants were required to play at being politicians, just as their equivalents in other shows played at being pop stars. The prize was the opportunity to stand in the General Election
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Cardo, Valentina
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Street, John
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2007
Cardo, Valentina
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Street, John
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Cardo, Valentina and Street, John
(2007)
Vote for me: playing at politics.
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Riegert, Kristina
(ed.)
Politicotainment: Television’s Take on the Real.
Oxford, GB.
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In the run-up to the 2005 General Election, one of the United Kingdom’s main television channels broadcast, over the course of a week, a program called Vote for Me. It was a political version of reality television showssuch as Big Brother, Pop Idol, and Fame Academy. Contestants were required to play at being politicians, just as their equivalents in other shows played at being pop stars. The prize was the opportunity to stand in the General Election
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Published date: 2007
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John Street
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Kristina Riegert
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