A new study shows that children who spend more time watching television spend less time interacting with their family and playing creatively. Children watch television more than any other activity. Researchers from University of Texas at Austin and Harvard Children’s Hospital wanted to understand whether and how this affects children’s health and behavior. Dr. Elizabeth Vandewater and her colleagues surveyed 2‚900 children ages 12 and under around the United States and analyzed all of the children’s
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Cited: Johnson‚ Steven. Watching TV Makes you smarter. Stevens‚ Dana. “Thinking Outside the Idiot Box.” They Say‚ I Say with Readings. Ed. Gerald Graff‚ Cathy Birkenstein‚ and Russel Durst. New York: W. W. Norton and Company‚ 2009. 277-294. Print. Peacocke‚ Antonia. Family Guy and Freud:
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forming people’s mentality. We cannot even imagine a life without TV‚ yet we should be fully aware the fact that on the whole TV exerts a negative influence on our society. First and foremost ‚ TV is behind the rise of crime rate in modern society. Violence and sex shown on television encourage antisocial behavior and result in higher crime rate. Many crimals confess that their violent actions or attitudes to women were encourged by TV. The rate of such crimes is constantly growing and more and more
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Personal TV: A Qualitative Study of Mobile TV Users Yanqing Cui1‚ Jan Chipchase2‚ and Younghee Jung2 1 Nokia Research Center Helsinki‚ Ruoholahti‚ 11-13 Itämerenkatu‚ Helsinki 00180‚ Finland 2 Nokia Design Tokyo‚ Shimomeguro 1-8-1 Meguro-ku‚ Tokyo 153-0064‚ Japan {yanqing.cui‚jan.chipchase‚younghee.jung}@nokia.com Abstract. This paper describes a qualitative user study of mobile phone TV usage undertaken during September 2005 and centered on the real world Mobile TV usage of paying subscribers
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What is More Effective TV or Newspapers Reading a newspaper is more effective as a provider of important information than TV. With TV news you have certain times that you must tune in‚ such as twelve or ten o’clock news‚ to catch what is going on in the world today. And even when you do catch the news a those designated time slots on TV they show what people want to see rather than what they need to know to better TV ratings. With TV it is easy to grab the attention of their audience but hard to
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Evaluate the effect easy availability of divorce has on the increasing divorce rate Divorce is the legal ending of a marriage. Debatably‚ the most influential factor in the increasing divorce rates is the easy availability of it. Up until the 1920’s Divorce was largely unheard of and hard to obtain; only males were allowed to file for one‚ it was also incredibly expensive. However in 1923 thanks to changes in the law‚ the grounds were equalised for both genders and later widened to include
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LSE Research Online Article (refereed) Sonia Livingstone Does TV advertising make children fat? : what the evidence tells us Originally published in Public policy research‚ 13 (1). pp. 54-61 © 2006 Blackwell Publishing. You may cite this version as: Livingstone‚ Sonia (2006). Does TV advertising make children fat : what the evidence tells us [online]. London: LSE Research Online. Available at: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/1026 Available in LSE Research Online: May 2007 LSE has developed LSE Research
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Running head: Effects of excessive use of the TV. Effects of an Excessive Use of the TV Yarina Veras Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra The television has been one of the most revolutionary inventions ever made. It’s an indispensable device in our daily life. Through the TV people find out what’s happening around the world and also gives one pleasure to relaxing after a long day of work. However it could cause many harmful effects like mental fatigue‚ addiction and insomnia
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Cause & Effect Essay: Cell Phone Usage Look around next time you attend a big concert: More people are focused on balancing their phone over their heads than listening to the music. Cell phones can be a positive technological tool; yet‚ if used in the wrong way‚ can become quite a problem in today’s society. Common things that people do not even think about such as misinterpreting the meaning of a text message‚ texting or playing games on your phone during a math lecture‚ getting frequent headaches
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First‚ TV is a good source of information. It allows people to have different kinds of information in easy way. For example‚ people could watch different kinds of programs that let them know different kind of information in different fields such as health‚ education‚ technology and so on and so forth. Besides‚ television allows people to discover other unknown cultures‚ traditions‚ and religions. For example‚ through some documentary programmes people can discover the culture of the Iskimo community
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