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much television is bad for your kids. McCall says that recent studies confirm that kids who are saturated with television are damaged in many ways. McCall also states that kids who absorb a lot of media whether it be television, video games, or the internet are less likely to do well in school, less well-adjusted socially, and more likely to be overweight than kids who are low users of media. A separate study at the University of North Carolina found 12- to 14-year olds who watched television…

Death, Neil Postman discusses the commonly used phrase “Now… This” and how it came to symbolize news in the age of television. Postman discusses how news stories have become rapid segments of information placed consecutively to another that has absolutely no relevance to the previous one. Delivered by attractive newscasters with little emotion and placed in between bright commercials, news has lost its seriousness and assimilated to our vast entertainment industry. Postman was absolutely…

While watching cable television there are around four to five minutes breaks of commercials we encounter. Most of these commercials are about new reality shows. If they are not about new upcoming ones, there are the dates for when the current ones would make a comeback. Reality television has been around since the 1940s (Slocum). The shows that were on years ago were a lot less vulgar, then what we are used to today. Too me, it seems that reality T.V. continues to go down the wrong path. Yet,…

As many may know consumerism is a leading role in the American economy now and many people are asking when these acts will be stop? The movie, Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood illustrate the marketing industry push towards children and the future childhood and consumerism. I realized how unaware I am when it comes to the marketing industry and how much children are being dissected by advertisers and marketers. After watching this documentary, I feel as I was being used by…

TV Makes You Smarter”, as the thesis. Immediately Johnson asserts that TV has rapidly evolved into a more substance based programs instead of programs meant to produce mindless drones drooling on the couch. During this evolution in the world of television, shows have become way more complex and now force you to process more information than ever before. Johnson demonstrates the progress of TV over the years by comparing modern shows such as 24, and The…

the world it's easy for them to be swept up in flashy commercials and billboards. Although banning child targeting advertising would be a bit drastic, and would surely have adverse effects on our economy, stricter regulations must be put in place for the sake of our kids. Some day the world and its many issues will be left to our children, and it's our job to prepare them for it, not exploit them.…

The history of Journalism is something so unique to study. Media has improved in so many ways over time. Looking back to the ways people received their news, I come to realization that there are many differences. The speed of time as well as strategies taken to express information are just a few examples. The earliest methods of transmitting news was through words written, which possibly limited its content to what people took out of the message. The accuracy of what was processed depended on…

Education in America today is taking a dramatic turn in technological reform. New equipment has been introduced into vast majority of elementary classrooms such as iPads, televisions, computers, phones, etc. with new technology entering education, screen time has negatively affect children education. In addition, technology has taken a negative turn, limiting the ability to learn and shorten children social skills. Screen time has a powerful effect on children compared with five years ago. In…

8. The primary product Netflix provides to consumers is their term-based subscription to an online database of instant access movies and television series. The company has one main method to ensure quality in the production of its services, which is the use of analytics to develop personal profiles on each individual customer. Netflix uses many different data collection systems to receive inputs for analytics but also allows the user to “rate” shows and movies on a scale of 1 to 5 , which is…

Neil Postman argues that medium is the metaphor, meaning the way in which individuals receive information influences how they use and understand it. With the advancement of technology, having an inherent bias to inflict social change, the world enters a new digital age in which all modern civilizations are subject to new mediums. One such digital medium is Vine, a video sharing service owned by the micro-blogging entity known as Twitter. This application allows users to share short videos up to…