Convergent media technologies have set up a media platform that supports interactive, participatory mediated communities. The world-wide popularity of reality TV shows is indicative of the spread of these cultural values and exemplifies the era of participating audiences ( ). This book investigates audience participation in two Chinese reality TV programmes, identifying audience participation as a form of informal role enactment. This is the first research conducted in China that maps audience members by calling on them to be self-reflective. With its extension of a Chinese audience studies...