American Idol

Review on representation
of American culture in cyber space

Internet is an interesting gift of Modern society that has clear and unclear influence on the people in the world. The Search engines in this cyber arena are important element that serve majority of the people; according to a communication theory “Agenda setting”, the preferences of Press media determines the preferences of Public opinion, so it could be said that the titled news of search engines could determined the Preferences of users in the world.
Today one of the news of MSN is this: What twists will be coming up on 'Idol'? this news is about changing some elements of presenting American Idol, one of the most popular reality shows in the USA. This news is beginning with this sentence: "American Idol" is nothing if not familiar, and outside of the competition itself, the show is predictable. It could be said this news is a declaration for consulting the audiences in this twist.

One of the Family’s Number

The United States was a leading pioneer of T.V. as an entertainment medium, and the tradition remains strong to this day. Many American television sitcoms, dramas, game shows and reality shows remain very popular both in the US and abroad. Reality television is a genre of television programming which presents supposedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and features ordinary people instead of professional actors. It could be said that these Shows have important place between Americans and their popular culture, the desire of participating in the justice of American Idol that artistically is represented in this news in fact acknowledge my claim: The Boston Globe’s Joanna Weiss recently suggested that the show “take a page from ‘Project Runway’ and bring back a rejected contestant or two — someone beloved by fans, or perhaps somebody hated. Maybe even a rejected contestant from a previous season.”


Who are the Audience of this Happiness?

The Internet is growing at an annualized rate of 18% and now has one billion users. Second billion users will follow in the next ten years, bringing a dramatic change in worldwide usability needs. About the sharing this one billion population in the world I have to add USA is involved 18.3 percent and for competition we have to know that Canada was twelfth with 2.0, UK was sixth with 3.3 and China was second with 11.1 percent in the world.

At the first glance we could say that the majority of the expected audiences of this news are the people who access to internet and use of it, according to the data that I referenced to them, US and China had (and it could be said have) the most number. So it could be said that this news is published not only for representing American participation in their entertainment in the New World but also this is a press of information between the audiences in the Old world! I mean this is a show of American life.

The Declaration for the World

MSN who titled the news of Saddam death “Saddam is executed” in the first page, today titles with the news of a twist for “American Idol”, this action represented that US who probably has violent face for extending peace in the world, is the country also the happiness of its people is important for him, too. This is the declaration for the world.
It could be said the name of this show has another representation in this news: talking about unique place of America in the world.