June Deery works in Media Studies and writes on commercialization, politics, gender, race/ ethnicity, class, and Reality TV. For some time, she has been investigating cultural perceptions of fact and fiction and is currently exploring their status within a political context.
In Consuming Reality: The Commercialization of Factual Entertainment (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), she demonstrates how reality television monetizes and consumes reality through its branding of content and propagation of capitalist narratives.