Academic Studies By Marie Winn Summary

Marie Winn demonstrates her ideas backed with evidence she supplied in the article. The evidence given are anecdotal evidence and academic studies. Her use of academic studies throughout her article strengthens her argument as academic studies is a good way of understanding the environment of families and individuals who are under the influence of television and how people are affected by it. Although out of the academic studies she referenced, the study referring to eye contact was most likely the most powerful as it shows that even though something as minuscule as eye contact can heavily impact individuals, especially those exposed to long periods of television. Myself being an individual impacted by television during their youth can understand this study being that I am an
I could also have instead of watching television and absorbing pointless information in my youth just have communicated with my parents and gain more meaningful information. Winn additionally supports her claims with anecdotes. Anecdotes are helpful as they can create a sense of reality and relatability. A good anecdote was the experience of a one-way relationship with television characters. Just like myself during my youth, watching television never allowed me to interact with actual people. Instead of going outside making friends and creating a relationship that allows communication between both sides like I should have been, I was watching television programs that allowed no communication what so ever. Thus, I had difficulty developing the skills needed for communication between