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has been extensive research on the relationship between televised violence and violent behavior among youth over the past 30 years. Television violence and the presence of TV’s in American homes have increased tremendously over the years. In 1950, only 10% of American homes had a television, today that number has skyrocketed to 99%. In fact more families have televisions than telephones. Over half of all children have a TV set in there room. This gives a greater opportunity for children to view…

much dedication it takes for an individual to tune into a show week-to-week and live tweet their commentary. For this television challenge experience, I chose to delve deep into The CW’s Riverdale Twitter fandom and live tweet my immediate reactions as the show aired. For this experience, I live tweeted under the account @tvaddictperson. With my phone in my hands and television tuned into The CW in front of me, I became fully engaged in a second screen viewing experience.…

by listeners was controlled by advertising agencies which included the shows hired the talent and staff. Sometimes they draw performers directly from the old vaudeville theatre circuit. To lease airtime and studio facilities, the get it from radio networks. Programs sometimes became fixed in half-hour or quarter-hour blocks which featured a wide variety of formats to explore. Soap operas such as Ma Perkins and The Guiding Light kept housewives company throughout the afternoon. Adventure…

culture”? (1) Television’s “most enduring contribution to culture is twenty-two-minute solution.” Twenty-two-minute solution gives a false idea to people that your real life problems can be solved within twenty-two-minutes just like in sitcoms on television. People are expected to solve their problems in quicker amounts of time like in sitcoms even in real life situations. 2. List two ways in which the TV serves a “teaching” role in culture. (1) Two ways in which the TV serves a “teaching” role…

importance. These applications will become an entire platform for video. The Internet is morphing into television, and the video streams are paving over the interactive forking paths of text with a steady stream that does the thinking for us. After all, it's always been a business-to-consumer network to give the clients what they are mesmerized with the most, which is typically video.…

Defining genres for television shows has always been a difficult task, and the sheer amount of shows airing today makes this process even tougher. Not only are there hundreds of shows that are prevalent in network television, but due to the rise in popularity of streaming sites such as Netflix, there are also many shows that get their start on these sites without ever premiering on TV. This saturation in the market of TV shows has obviously produced many different genres of TV shows, and the…

Do you love watching TV? TV is all around us and has been one of best invention that was made. Television has a huge impact on society, especially teenagers. According to http://www.nydailynews.com the average American sees more than five hours of live TV every day. Children aged 2-11 watch over 24 hours of TV per week, while adults aged 35-49 watch more than 33(http://www.nydailynews.com). Television was made to entertain people like the radio did. People use to sit around and listen to the…

Since the 1950’s the television set has been a staple in every American family’s living room. They gathered around to watch the moon landing, nightly newscasts, Saturday Night Live, the Superbowl, presidential debates, and to find out the winner of American Idol. TV has a long history of impacting our culture and society, but what it once was is slowly dissolving and transforming into something new. We now live in the age of Netflix, binge watching, and being able to carry a TV with us at all…

Anastasia Papanikolaou Mr. Engel AP English 11- 2 March 29, 2015 Pop Culture - Television: article responses • Watching TV Makes You Smarter by Steven Johnson 1. Steven Johnson calls his theory -- that the “most debased forms of mass diversion” (para. 4) turn out to be good for us, after all the “Sleeper Curve” after a scene in a Woody Allen movie. How does using one form of popular culture examine another form affect Johnson’s argument? Johnson, by naming “the sleeper curve” after a…

Older people are generally influenced by media through the news and tabloids. However, children are socialized through television shows and cartoons. The shows and the advertisements shown during the commercial breaks are an important part of socializing the child because they will watch so much television in their spare time. I watched two different cartoons on Cartoon Network to see how children are socialized through cartoons. The first one was called Teen Titans Go. In this cartoon, I…