How Does Tv Affect Society

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A decade ago, no one would have imagined that the television industry would explore making programming available on the Internet. Nowadays, we can watch tv programs on any device connected to the Internet. As we transition the delivery of content over the internet, the line between traditional tv, where you sit at home on a couch with your family, to watching tv on a mobile device, continues to blur. For the audience, it is a win-win situation, but for the creators of the shows it means that you must find more ways to make an emotional connection with the viewer.
Deciding on which topics and themes to touch base on is the hard part. The second hardest part would be to have a network “pick up” the tv show. Television networks throughout the
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It is a show that if I had kids, I would love to sit down with them to watch. It is a show where the messages you hear in all of the episodes are to be kind to others, to love each other, to forgive, to listen, to cry if you need to, to laugh with those you love and that everyone can make mistakes; that success is made up of failures; to keep trying and never quit on your dreams. These types of messages are the ones we should be teaching our children. Not to judge or hate based on the other person’s color, gender, or race. And yet, this is the reality we are still facing on the 21st …show more content…
The viewers don’t just watch shows anymore. People tend to tag their characters on Twitter and share their opinions of the episode while watching it. The viewers also have a tendency to follow their favorite celebrities on social media and learn about their daily life activities. What’s even more interesting is having the producers and the writers of the show, nowadays, sit by their computers and read the reactions of their fans while the episode is running live on tv. By being able to study their audience reaction, they seem to collect their ideas on where to take their characters, of their shows, next. They, now, have developed actual relationships with their audience. They might even reply back to their fans and ask them questions. Not only do they reply to their fans, but also, to those who disagree on what they show is touches base

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