Television terminology

Since the 1920s, scholars have explored the representation of ethnic groups in United States television, cinema, and alternative forms of media with the purpose of achieving “fair representation” of such groups with strategies ranging from government regulation to public criticism. For decades, culturally endowed critics, as well as Latina/os themselves, have strived to mollify the demeaning and negative images presented in mainstream media in addition to achieving a demographically…

playing outside and more amused with their phones, tablets, and televisions. All though the advancements we have made in technology is exceptional, many people fail to see the effects that it has dawned on children. Not only are children these years less active, less interested in socializing, but they are being more and more exposed each day to violence. What I am speaking of is how throughout times more and more violence is seen on television day by day. It can be from a gruesome action movie…

Introduction: In many aspects, television has become a vital aspect of daily life within modern society. It encompasses a variety of genres ranging from soap operas to thrillers, as to meet the uses and gratifications of its audiences. As television continues to become more popular, networks are struggling to come up with new and inventive plots as a means of attempting to outshine other programs in their genre. Nelson Media Research ratings confirm that in 2006, aside from top shows like…

For my action adventure show I picked the television series Castle, which is mainly about solving homicide investigations. For my children’s cartoon I picked Dora the Explorer, a children’s show about the main character going on an adventure with her friends. Furthermore, the show Castle usually starts…

Kansas City metro area was covered with about three feet of snow! As the years go on the weather fluctuates and creates a long autumn, which is the season for television shows! It is crazy to look at the huge difference in Television from when I was born to the year 2016. TV has come a long way since then and has changed for the better. Television is one of the world’s most powerful creations to this day because it affects everyone in some way. When I was born eighteen years ago TV was great.…

Like many other people, I can remember watching violent movies and television shows at a very early age. I watched everything from wrestling and the classics like “Scarface” and old episodes of “Gunsmoke” and “Bonanza” with my grandfather to the cut them up, bullets, blood and gore movies like “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “Friday the 13th” with my cousins. I’ve been a big fan of them ever since. No one ever said anything about the violence we were exposed to mainly because at a very young age…

important thing to know is what pop culture is. According to the dictionary, pop culture is “cultural activities or commercial products reflecting, suited to, or aimed at the tastes of the general masses of people”. It varies from film to music to television to books. Things like sports, theater, politics, slang and clothes were also parts of pop culture. Although the term “Pop Culture” was officially used often, that’s what we call it back then. Pop Culture was the beginning of trends in many…

("WatchingTV/Screen Time and Children", 2016)”. Watching television at a young age is unhealthy, harmful, and destructive. There have been thousands of studies conducted on what happens to children when they start watching tv at a young age and all of them show some sort of negative affect. Children should not watch tv because it leads to various negative effects such as physical health, child stimulation, and behavioral changes. An undeniable effect that television has on children is the…

Amusing Ourselves to Death, explains how television creates communication by redefining public discourse. Public discourse is the forms of conversation dealing with political, religious, or commercial. Throughout the book, Neil Postman explains how society has become unknowledgeable about the changes because of being too consumed in its epistemology. Postman starts the book by showing historical facts in the first part of the book and describes the effects of media in American life throughout…

only American thinking the same thing. Today, television eats away at the average person’s life. For example, the average person working a full time job works around forty hours a week, which is the same amount of hours the average person spends watching television a week (Rowels)! However, watching TV did not used to be so consuming in everyday life. Television programming has undergone a chance since television’s invention. The idea of television came about in the 1820s, and it spread…