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developed as one attempt to explain the influence of television on its viewers (p. 109, Bryant, Thompson, and Finklea, 2013). Also, cultivation proposes that over time, heavy viewers of television develop or cultivate views of the world similar to what they see on television, generally a "mean" world filled with violence and crime (p. 109, Bryant, et al, 2013). My definition of cultivation theory is a theory used to measure the effects television (mostly violence and crime) has one the viewers…

The Invention That Changed My Life Do you ever try to watch a video and it starts buffering because you have no wifi, well here's a brief story about wifi. A long time ago a beautiful actress, who had been very smart, invented wifi. Her name was Hedy Lamar. Around world war 2 she came up with a brilliant idea. She thought of frequency hopping to use for our soldiers as a code. After everyone said her idea was terrible, it eventually turned into wifi, and now it's used everyday. In my…

presumed that people are simply satisfied with the quality of the TV shows they would watch, but with the years culture is getting more cognitively demanding, and expect more of a show than they did decades ago. He believes that video games, violent television shows, and juvenile’s sitcoms are good after all because the juveniles mental development is altered by these games. His argument here is that…

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…

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…

mainstream films such as The Brady Bunch Movie and television series such as Sabrina the Teenage Witch. In 2009, Charles was approached by LGBT-geared cable channel LOGO to produce his own competition reality series specifically for drag queens. Thus, RuPaul’s Drag Race was born. One part American Idol, one part Project Runway, and one part America’s Next Top Model, RuPaul’s Drag Race’s main conceit involves…

Television shows have been a popular form of entertainment since they first aired in the early 1900s. As time has progressed, the values and norms presented in the shows have also progressed due to the changing time periods and political and social reform. Although gender roles in society, family dynamics, and pace of shows have changed drastically over the past 50 years in the television industry, the values and norms presented, from a bigger picture, are principally similar. One of the many…