note 208

With more and more normal people being televised in reality shows, news items, game shows etc. these ‘normal’ people have to deal with the effect of having been mediated. They will be recognized, praised, looked at in different ways and people may want to touch them. The mediated presence as such has no physical implications, but the fact that it has been witnessed by other people can change the physical constellation as well as the physical condition of whoever has been televised.