In the importance of news and entertainment of tv shows seems paramount to Neil Postman in the excerpt Commentary: Learning in the Age of Television. The excerpt focuses on the way our entertainment discourse has devolved. He implicitly argues throughout the book that media – whether oral, written, or televised form - should serve to keep us informed and entertained so that we can take direct action to improve our lives and world. We should be willing to satisfy our self-interest, and we obviously need proper information in order to best gauge which entertainment shows satisfies our self-interest in any situation. His fear is that the discourse inspired by television has created an era of "babysitting" in which we lack any idea of what those
You’re a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting, shedding your own history and your own future, leaving everything behind everything you ever were or wanted or believed in. You know you’re about to die. And it’s not a movie
MediaSmarts discovered that 39% of youth sleep with their phones (Loney, 2014). If the CBC were to place their programming on the mobile devices, youth would be more likely to access it and consume the content. Offering programs online can help allow more youth to enjoy more CBC programming and would allow them to easily access the content that the CBC
Alisha Vaquera 02/07/23 U.S. History 2 Mr. Kroeze Progression from 1950 to the Present American society has always been evolving. This can be seen exponentially in the era of the 1950s compared to the current era. Music, gender roles, and the advancement of science are the major issues that have progressed throughout the years. Music is always changing and bouncing off of different genres even now. In today’s time, musicians use the backing tracks of past and other songs already produced to make their products.
Many major events took place in the 1940s decade. It was an important time for our country, as well as others. It was a time of war, technology, and cultural events. For example, the second international war came to an end, America was attacked and attacked others, and a simple and overlooked piece of technology was first created.
How Radio Told Stories Radio’s inability to provide a direct image to those who listened to its broadcasts meant that a program’s script had to be written with certain guidelines in order to help the audience place characters and actions; these programs also required the voice actors to record in different accents, tones, pitches, and dialects in order to be able to present an “accurate” portrayal of a different culture, race, or age. With the lack of a visual representation the writers had to make sure that their scripts would construct and consider the space between characters, as well as keep a clear and direct line of dialogue. In the comedic radio show Fibber McGee and Molly, the audience is able to construct an image representation of what they hear due to sound effects; the doorbell is used as reference point, the audience is able to place a door
As the reader evaluates the article it is hard for them to, formulate a true argument for or against Craig Lamberts article. Shadow work is real, but the descriptions that Lambert gave doesn’t give his stance on the subject. This stance is unique in the fact that it allows him to talk about the majority of the subject in its entirety. Towards the middle of his article he talks about how certain shadow work jobs have been assigned as responsibilities under a different job.
People commonly draw similarities between the relationship between father and son and that of a man and their shadow. However, this raises other questions. What is one to do if their shadow becomes larger than themselves? Or perhaps the shadow no longer resembles the man. Such questions arise in the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel and the graphic novel MAUS by Art Spiegelman.
Nick Lambe is a “director of GordAlex”, a cybersecurity firm in London (Heath). He acknowledges that the media can control what users see based on their previous viewings. Lambe even states that “the number of phishing scams during lockdown” has surged due to people “spending way more time online” (qtd. in Heath). For example, some scammers have the technology to show a cute and heartwarming animal video that may draw at-home viewers to donate to that cause. However, that money would be “in the hands of the bad guys” (qtd. in Heath).
In 1949, 88% of Americans believed humans would cure cancer by 1999, 15% believed humans would land on the moon. 20 years later humans would land on the moon. In the 1940’s music was just forming into the type of music we hear today, such as pop, jazz, and techno. Music in the 50’s was the era when dancing while listening to music was frowned upon by many, which is why Elvis was mainly liked by the younger generation rather than the older generations. The late 50’s is when pop was really being shaped to what it is now.
Television in the 1960’s The television was and still is an important invention to society. The television is a small box that displays a moving picture with sound and all kinds of shows. “If it weren’t for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of the television we’d still be eating frozen radio dinners”-Johnny Carson (quotes.net).
In a time of economic prosperity, a rise in the standard of living and rock and roll, also known as the “happy days”, the 1950s were a time looked back on with nostalgia. On the other hand, the 1950s were also met with many problems involving civil rights, the Cold War and McCarthyism. After the end of World War II, Americans came home to jobs available and a period of consensus. Consensus meaning there wasn’t much debate in politics. However tensions quickly rose throughout the nation when Joseph McCarthy made serious accusations about the State Department.
Shadow theory is the understanding and analyzation of characteristics that the subject is unaware of: weaknesses, repressed ideas, desires, instincts, and shortcomings. The side of a any given personality which is not consciously displayed in public may have positive or negative qualities, and this is the Shadow self. When the Shadow remains unconscious, it causes problems for the person that holds that Shadow and the people that interact with them. Baker believes, “The Shadow self also embodies many darker aspects of the main character’s personality as well as deeply repressed impulses that aren’t always conspicuous to the reader” (1). When reading Hamlet, readers may not pick up on Hamlet’s Shadow.
About an average of 32 hours and 47 minutes a week only Americans watch TV shows and 58 minutes a week watching things online (Schonfeld, 2012). Each day technology is developing and its becoming a big part of our society and our foreseeable future. A study shows that only 0.4% of the world population used internet in 1995, meanwhile 50.1% of world’s population used internet in 2016 (Internet Growth Statistics). People should be aware of the side effects of media, because teenagers get influenced by the things they watch and this could change the way they behave to certain things.
Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1975 essay, “The Child and the Shadow”, explores the concept of a human and their shadow and the realm of collective consciousness and collective unconsciousness. The essay begins by Le Guin summarizing a tale written by Hans Christian Andersen. This tale involves a young man and his overpowering shadow. It starts off by the man, whom is very shy, falling head over heels for a beautiful woman who lives across the street. However, he never meets this woman, his shadow does.
