Influence of development in television:
Positive or Negative?
"Today, the average American watches close to four hours of TV each day and The average U.S. home has the TV on more than 51 hours a week."(whittaker). Among the numerous new medias such as social network service(SNS), Internet and mobile service, television is specially used as a popular new media. As a society is focusing on interaction through media, a lot of kinds of programs covered in television is also being noticed more and more and finally supported as a massive and influential media. In spite of television’s suitability in now society, some negative positions about television are being emerged because of it’s bad impacts for people. However, as benefits of television are
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Espeacially for youth, it is selected as main health disrupter because "TV viewing is probably replacing activities in your child' s life that you would rather have them do (things like playing with friends , being physically active, getting fresh air, playing imaginatively, doing chores)."(University of Michigan Health System’). They assert that the more time children spend on watching television, the less time children can be included in their real lives. Thus less active movements can be resulted as deficiency in youth’s health development. On top of that, obesity is also related to watching televisions. According to some research there is significant association between the number of hours of television watched per day and body fat mass, with every extra hour/day spent watching television associated with a 2.2 pound increase in body fat (‘Watching TV Leads to Obesity’). Thinking of ordinary people who usually watch television while eating some snacks just sticking in front of television, it is natural to gain weight. In other words, less movements and more snacks caused by television can impact humans as a serious enemy of …show more content…
(‘What Is Information Society? - Definition from WhatIs.com’)
As people want information which is correct and fast, they need a media between them and information area-television. Such as quiz shows, journey shows, documentary, all of these are transmitting enormous range of information to us. As it is suitable for information society’s media, it is being used in variety ways in real life.
First of all, "Television Viewing has become portion of daily life in today's world." (TED). In everywhere, televisions are easily seen which are covering news or variey shows and so on. In people’s lives, television is now act as their friends who are both helpful and pleasing for people. Also, as television uses in education allows multiple teaching approaches, improves flexibility in classrooms and provides access to current information, television has became an essential classroom technology (DeLoatch). It means that people now acknowledge the importance of using television for children. In these ways, television is being widely used as perfect social
In the articles "The Box that Changed America" and "Television Transformed" by Lauren Tarshis we ask why how did the tv impact americans culture. The first thing the tv impacted in americans culture is that the tv brought people together. "Tv was becoming a powerful cultral force that brought americans together." (Tarshis 21) The tv brought us closer because tv shows made us relate with eachother.
In her book, The Worst Years of Our Lives, Barbara Ehrenreich asserts that “modern people, i.e., couch potatoes, do nothing that is ever shown on television” (22-24). That is an audacious statement. Is it reasonable to assume that anyone who watches television is indolent and does nothing with their life? Of course not. While anything in excess in not healthy, categorizing all modern people as "couch potatoes" is a harsh generalization that weakens Ehrenreich 's argument.
"Turn off the Television and Read" was written by Albert Hodapp. His main idea of this article is to encourage parents with kids that reading has a greater impact on children than television. He believes that reading at a young age benefits children's intelligently, physically, and sustainability significantly. He uses rhetorical devices to appeal the audience to the same feelings. Hodapp uses pathos, logos, and ethos as rhetorical devices to display that watching television affect children's behavior, education, and health.
Television had many positives and negatives on the American culture in this time period. Children didn’t have to use their
The TV parlour is the most influential electronic device used by the government to mold the citizens into conformists. Students who attend the school spend an hour each day watching and learning about television. “‘An hour of TV class…’’’ (Bradbury 33). By having students “learn” about watching television at school and see their parents watching it at home everyday, they start to believe that this is what they are suppose to do all day as well.
Why our principal media of mass communication is the TV shows? This is because in our century, people use more TV or Internet as media of information than a physical newspaper (paper). I will focus principally on the constant social criticism that exists on the TV shows. Criticism is the practice of judging the merits and faults of something. The term social criticism often refers to a mode of criticism that locates the reasons for malicious conditions in a society considered to be in a flawed social structure.
n Barbara Ehrenreich’s The Worst Years of Our Lives, she highlights a significant infection festering in American Culture: television as a main event, or only event in a day. As she says “you never see people watching tv”, and that happens because it truly isn’t entertaining. It substitutes for a life. The television has been pulling people into an allusion of a false reality and a seemingly boring life since its implementation. She essentially illustrates the negative impact television has on todays society.
The main media’s used are social media and television which are the main focus of chapter 9. Shirky’s article “Why I Just Asked My Students To Put Their Laptops Away” begins to talk about a way that people investigate and draw conclusions about the intersection of technology and everyday life. While Elavia writes about how reality shows are viewer driven rather producer or network driven. One thing social media and television have in common is how much of an impact they have on today. Everywhere you look there are ‘perfect’ images being displayed representing unrealistic goals.
The chapter also argues that television has a big impact on children causing them to be less interacted and paying less attention to important tasks. He is most effective in his appeals to pathos. Richtel addresses a wide audience in his book. He focusses mainly on teenagers who get into car accidents while texting and driving. Though, in chapter 21 of the book he focuses more with his audience by pointing out that when the television is on, parents and children disengage from one another.
Media affect teenagers the most because they spend a lot of time exploring things on it and this could harm them in a negative way. For example: when teenagers watch romantic movies, they could act differently to their love life because they got influenced by the things that they watched. Teenagers could change their behavior due to the things they watch on TV shows, movies, and videos. The young people of today appear to be excessively fascinated in viewing their most loved shows on TV or utilizing web-based social networking
1. Introduction Today television plays a big role in many people’s life, especially for children. It is hard to imagine a world without television. Thanks to the development of technology, television is invented, and considered as a great medium that provokes imagination, encourages education, and entertains the children around the world. Television can also be a beefy influence in developing value systems and shaping behavior (Bee, 1998).
In this modern age, people obtain information by means of the Internet. In a recent research, it is identified that next to television, people use internet to get to know the
Sandra Assouad Ahmed Sokkary Farida El Hagin Omar El Battat Television and how it affects our society Television is one of the most important miracles of science. It is a telecommunication medium that is used for transmitting and receiving moving images and sound. Televisions can transmit images that are monochrome, in color, or in three dimensions. Whether good or bad, television has found its way into the lives of people all over the world and it 's an important part of life for many.
Abstract This review study shed light on the debate over positive and negative aspects of media. In this study positive side of media is highlighted as well as negative effects. Previously researchers have found that all types of electronic media whether its TV or computer or internet or social media have negative impact on children but now researchers are focusing on educational aspect of media and how educational programs can help in developing cognitive thinking among children. Finally to increase learning among children researchers suggests that co-viewing of Parent and children should be promoted in families in Pakistan.
These impacts affect the way people make decisions and also their views on certain things. A common media that every urban person has at home is the television. People depend on the television to watch their favorite television shows, dramas and even the news. Some of these television shows and dramas have a negative impact on people.