There is no doubt that Americans love to watch television and spend hours of time on their phones. In the article “Television”, Jeff Ousborne states “Over the last sixty years, no pop culture medium has done more to shape American life than television” (243). Instead of comprising a daily schedule before, now it is a schedule of a favorite show. Not having at least one television set in homes these days is unheard of. If we are greatly interested in a t.v. series, we will spend a great deal of time attempting to finish a season to see the next season without missing information. In our current generation, phones seem to be more of a necessity rather than a luxury, consequently we are always on our phones. It is engraved in our lives and as
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Channels like National Geographic, Discovery and PBS offer loads of information to all kinds of audiences. Who said that TV only has one purpose. Toddlers, for example, could be amused by a bright yellow bird on Sesame Street who teaches them basic math and grammar exercises. On Top of that, lessons on helping others are included and they are learning, having fun, and are developing cognitive thinking. On the other side of the spectrum, shows like Cosmos gravitate more to teen and adults. There are endless amount of materials one can absorb and spew out when useful. Since a majority of people feel like reading is mundane and plain to some degree, if they had a choice they would want to watch a video on the subject rather than pick up a book and read. Why?, because it easier and requires less work. In addition, if one were to stumbleupon a show that is irrelevant but somewhat interesting, it could be almost hypnotizing causing them to fixate their complete attention to it, that is the beauty of television; almost like a ripple effect. In the article “Watching TV makes you smarter”, Steven Johnson illustrates how the culture is getting more cognitively demanding and suggest that “video games and violent television dramas and juvenile sitcoms - turn out to be nutritional after all”
Channels like National Geographic, Discovery and PBS offer loads of information to all kinds of audiences. Who said that TV only has one purpose. Toddlers, for example, could be amused by a bright yellow bird on Sesame Street who teaches them basic math and grammar exercises. On Top of that, lessons on helping others are included and they are learning, having fun, and are developing cognitive thinking. On the other side of the spectrum, shows like Cosmos gravitate more to teen and adults. There are endless amount of materials one can absorb and spew out when useful. Since a majority of people feel like reading is mundane and plain to some degree, if they had a choice they would want to watch a video on the subject rather than pick up a book and read. Why?, because it easier and requires less work. In addition, if one were to stumbleupon a show that is irrelevant but somewhat interesting, it could be almost hypnotizing causing them to fixate their complete attention to it, that is the beauty of television; almost like a ripple effect. In the article “Watching TV makes you smarter”, Steven Johnson illustrates how the culture is getting more cognitively demanding and suggest that “video games and violent television dramas and juvenile sitcoms - turn out to be nutritional after all”