Superhero television programs

Have you ever wondered how Netflix suggests a movie for you? You would be incorrect if you thought it was a group of geniuses researching people from their computers all day. It would be too expensive for Netflix to pay them. Instead, Netflix uses the concept of correlation and a complex statistical algorithm to make suggestions. This algorithm tracks and groups people based on movies that they have similarly rated in the past and makes movie recommendations based upon those who have liked the…

favorite series often made in a language beyond their lingual capabilities. For example, large number of American teenagers eagerly follow Japanese anime, and in China, some (in fact, roughly a million) people even find interest in Jon Stewart’s television shows! Thus the need for “subbers”, people who make translated…

Today, television has claimed its spot as the dominant past time in society. Whether it is informative, dramatic or comedic shows of all types are tuned in daily. Before television asserted its popularity, years were spent being shaped and reshaped by social, cultural and political context changes. However, television discovered a way to embed itself in the domestic life and transform this new phenomenon of technology into an acquainted social custom within the household. In Lynn Spigel’s…

TV Shows Analysis: American Horror Story and the Twilight Zone Linh Hua Anderson University Televisions came to the United States during the late 1940s, but they did not officially bloom until the 1950s. They were able to dominate Americans due to their diversity of programs: variety shows, anthology shows, sitcom shows, etc. In the current time, when one mentions anthology, people would immediately think about The Twilight Zone, which runs in the late fifties and sixties, and…

The Golden Girls The Golden Girls aired on NBC for seven season, 1985-1992. The 80’s into the early nineties was a time in television that played to the growing over 50+ age group with shows like Matlock, Columbo and Murder She Wrote all receiving high ratings from all generations of viewers. This show however, was different and so successful due to the complex issues and character development that encompassed its 108 episodes. Three women, Dorothy, Blanche, and Rose are housemates after…

Television has given is the opportunity to view our lives through a characters. Television network are always coming up with new sitcoms that we could relate ourselves, and our families too while continuing to watch for entertainment. They allow us to visualize a life that otherwise we could never be able to live. It is important on how sitcom creators portrayed the family, because television is a reflection on our society. Society shapes family life in many different ways, it can determine…

For my second multimedia project I decided to rewatch some of my favorite seasons of How I met your mother. Besides a little research into the characters last semester I haven’t see the full series in a couple years and let me just say, I am surprised by the things I’ve missed/overlooked in the past. Though there are great examples throughout all of season 6, as well as every season, that show the minoritization and universalization of different intersecting identities, for this project I will…

various genres that address the audience as citizen instead of consumers: Annette Hill’s “Re-styling Factual TV”(2007) gives an insight as to what defines a genre and its criteria for categorization. The differentiation between genres of factual television is a two-way street: while the audience has the ability to define what subcategory a film belongs to (based on various personal factors), a film categorized as one of higher quality and values will affect the way the audience will perceive it.…

In the campaign “Taking the Bite out of the Binge” Netflix uses the lack of a preexisting definition of binge watching to create a campaign that shows a favorable light on the term. After using two studies from two organizations as secondary research, Netflix conducts it’s own primary research to better understand how Internet streamers watch TV in the U.S and Canada. The reactive campaign is a research campaign designed to generate publicity as a strategy. The strategy was to address why…

software programs, which were becoming more and more intuitive, while still remaining cost effective for smaller productions. The science fiction genre changed rapidly throughout the 2000’s, as a result of new technologies and techniques being developed regarding the use of visual effects. In this paper, I am going to inform you about some of the history behind the visual effects industry and its technological developments. As well as, how these improvements…