TELEVISON COMMINCATION STYLES

HERE COMES HONEY BOO BOO"

The young girl pictured above is Alana Thompson aka "Honey Boo Boo" who is the star of a TLC reality showed titled "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo". The reality shows depicts the day to day life of Georgia family, the Thompson's and their involvement in Alana's "Honey Boo Boo” beauty pageant competitions. I initially discovered this show while "channel surfing" late night televions. The show initially caught my interest as I have never heard about nor viewed the show. I initially decided to watch this television show  with the sound off in an effort to analyze the family dynamic, and later viewed the show with the sound on to determine the accuracy of my assumptions. The family appeared to use a plethora of non verbal communication with many hand gestures to show their excitement and eye rolling to show their dislike or frustration. The star of the reality show, Alana used nonverbal communication including facial expressions such as smiles when speaking to the camera or practicing with pageant coaches, in addition to rapid hand gestures and eye rolling to express her frustrations or dislikes. Once I turned the sound on to determine the accuracy of my assumption, most proved to be accurate. The Thompson family is outspoken, spontaneous, and impulsive. The children and parent dynamic is one which my be viewed as unusual and uncommon for may families, with limited boundaries established between children and families. Te children of the family are opinionated and very outspoken when speaking to their parents, and the parents appear to be accepting of this behavior and in some way encouraging. The nonverbal communication I witnessed during my view of the television show with the sound turned off appeared to be a direct correctional to the verbal communication exhibited during my view of the television show with the sound turned on.