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After Watching the video “Turned Out”, the video seems like it was trying to prove that not everyone is meant to be in prison because certain things happens. The things that do happen to majority of the people in prison can change their lives in prison and even when they get out of prison. This video gave the audience some insight to what inmates really deal with in prison view of perspective vs the outside view of perspective. However the video explains to the audience how prison rape is so…

According to the video by Dimitri Christakis, he talked about how TV affects the brains of young children. Christakis started off by talking about the brains of a new born and a 2-year-old brain. This is a tremendous growth; by the time the baby is 3 the brain is fully developed. Christakis also proved the audience with a chat to help us better understand the growth of a human brain. Dimitri also told us that we are born with synapses which are early experiences. Dimitri used an example that, if…

they lead flawless lives and aspire to be like them. In Aaron Franz and Adam Roscoe’s podcast episode, “The Cult of Celebrity Worship, Themes and Memes Ep18,” they discuss how fans are drawn to celebrities because of the way they are portrayed on television, in the movies, and on social media. They automatically relate that celebrity’s characteristics to the fictional character that the celebrity plays and believes that they actually act like that in real life. These “superhuman” qualities of…

that happened worldwide. Furthermore, television and radios made a significant effect on the civil rights movement in the sense that they gave the people public awareness. This let people to become more aware about things that were happening around them. Even though television was a new invention in the 1950s and developed in the of the civil rights movement, it brought huge success to bringing people top stories. According to the news star, local television news did not only get reports on…

Cavender, talks about one of the top-rated television programs in the United States. He observes the cultural meaning of CSI. The article demonstrates how crime, deviance, and social control are represented in the media culture we experience everyday. Media is such a huge influence in our lives today. The research Cavender provides, gives examples of how individuals’ everyday interactions, with media, consumes and shape their attitudes about crime. The media has an important role of cultural…

From early art in the 1600’s to the emergence of television, the media has had a rapid and unstoppable invasion on lives. Media overwhelms society with drama and entertainment. In “Supersaturation, or, The Media Torrent and Disposable Feeling” by Todd Gitlin, he asserts paintings were what television is today: entertainment. In the 1600s, these paintings were passed down from generation to generation, and today, television shows rarely last two seasons. Gitlin feels as though the media…

U.S. Cultural Trends (50’s/ 60’s) Media Television enters households in the 50s Media wants to target more people, so they made shows and broadcasted things that were less offensive and more family friendly I love lucy was a popular tv show in the 50s, Bewitched and Dick Van Dyke in the 60s Color tv was picking up in the mid to late 60s People only had landlines, no cell phones yet Music Elvis came into light, much to the dismay of parents Rock and roll was spreading like wildfire The 60s was a…

prizes through her sponsors including Nordstrom’s and Target. Ellen DeGeneres is a successful person because she showed determination, commitment, courage and care by being courageous enough to become the first person to come-out as homosexual on television and…

The debate of whether screen viewing has negative or positive affects on children has been a long controversial topic. With every passing year, screens are being used in different ways that are increasing its presence in our daily lives that might alarm some parents. However through limited screen viewing time and depending on the content being viewed, I believe this can lead to a positive influence on a childs life. Limited screen time can help keep a balance between different aspects of a…

themselves. As the viewer watches the scene over and over again, it is apparent that this simple scene that only lasts around three minutes has a vast amount of aspects that can easily be analyzed in order to understand it better. This scene from a television show, along with many other scenes, or more broadly other artifacts, hold much more information, despite what most people may think. Artifacts tell a story, and this…