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    Television and Videogames: The New Teaching Professors Who would believe an apocalyptic, zombie-killer game or series will make people smarter? Most people believe that mass media destroys your brain cells, but Steven Johnson and Tom Bissell prove this common assumption wrong. In his 2005 article for New York Times Magazine “Watching TV Makes You Smarter”, Johnson convincingly argues how modern shows are making people think more, thus exercising their minds. Supporting this point of view, in…

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    Cell Phones, social media, television, spending nights watching movies and shows, whether with friends or alone, it feels like society have been doing it since forever. Has it become too late to quit? Television has become a huge heavy in families lives, preventing communication and even making ideas all blend into one. Two authors, Ellen Goodman and Ray Bradbury have been looking into this issue in their own style. In Goodman's factual article, “Primal Screen”, she explored how simple it can be…

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    Violence, is it appropriate or not? "All that glitters isn't gold!" which means that even though something may look nice it can really be deadly.This relates to violence in the media because even though the media may portray violence as a suitable behavior, it can also be very detrimental. Violence overall can lead to mimicry, desensitization, and can impact children. In "Violence media is good for kids", the author, explains that not being exposed to violence as a child can lead to children…

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    Ineffective video: Worst ever pitch, Worst ever product on BBCs Dragons Den In this video, the person who is showing his inventions to the “Dragons” is doing an ineffective presentation for many reasons: The presentation is not well prepared, it has a poor starting concept and it does not have a structured body with an overview of the product, and how this product is going to be important for the society. The presentation falls short of data and images that help to support the arguments. The…

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    Australian television shows, have they been portraying us accurately? Aussies are known to have that “take the piss out of each other” attitude but is it okay to take that attitude and show it to the public through the media? There are a large number of Australian TV shows that inaccurately represent life in a community such as Logan. For example the TV show ‘Housos’, through the use of the characters characteristics, location and scripting (plot and dialogue) they have represented all…

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    HBO’s (Home Box Office) Game of Thrones has received widespread critical acclaim from media groups such as the Washington Post, TIME, and The Hollywood Reporter. The show during its fourth season had an average viewer base of over 18 million (HitFix), estimated piracy puts that number over 20 million per episode (BBC News). These numbers include an undocumented but undeniably large number of Christians. The show also includes an undeniably large number of nudity and sex scenes. For the…

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    Making Life a Little Extra One Stick at a Time Often times people find themselves going home after a long day of school or work and relaxing on the couch, turning on the television to our favorite show. In the United States, Americans watch an average of five hours of television a day. In the average hour of television there are around fifteen and a half minutes of commercials and advertisements, which mean an American watches about an hour and a half of commercials everyday (Flint). The…

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    Everyday, thousands of people watch TV in their own house, workplace, or anywhere they go. On most channels, they include prescription drug commercials that people also watch along with their favored shows. However, watching drug ads may have a negative effect on people. Prescription drug ads should be banned because they may misinform patients and cause them harm, it may (most likely) persuade patients to be overdosed since the ad may look so appealing, and drug ads may weaken the relationship…

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    Our society has been dealing with violence on a regular basis. In fact, violence has become a part of today’s society happening in schools, streets, homes, and even on television. The television broadcast it and we all watch it. Some shows are not so bad, and some are so gruesome, I think how do people think like this. Some are based on true stories and some are not, but the crimes did not start today, they go all the way back to the most known movie that has been made over many times, the Texas…

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    As of late, broadcasting companies have gone under expanding assault for the fierce projects that fill their calendars. As we examined in class, clinicians and correspondences masters, for example, Dr. George Gerbner at the University of Pennsylvania, have planned scales to measure the passing and pulverization that comes into American homes day by day. Sociologists have examined the conceivable impacts of this circumstance on the survey open. One range that is presently accepting consideration…

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