Most people agree that television is one of the most important inventions of the past century. Opinions vary as to its value‚ but no one can deny the great effect that television has on society. Many people in the world cannot live a day without the television. I think watching television can be beneficial if we do not abuse using it. All people have a leisure time. Some people prefer multitasking rest that is to spend their free time efficiently doing more than one thing at the same time‚ for instance
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SUMARY The Dangers of Television by Harriet B Fuller (USA) According to Harriet in the United States‚ television has played in changing American values as follows. In the 1940s‚ television was predicted to bring families closer together. Its influence‚ however‚ has splintered family relations. The first danger of television‚ as the author mentions is the lack of as family outings‚ the going of the whole family together such as family take a walk‚ dine out‚ go to the cinema are constrain
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s the TV‚ as we know it‚ dead? The last few years has seen more people ditching their televisions in favour of a bigger monitor than ever before. With movie and TV downloads (legal or otherwise)‚ streamed video content from a host of online players and a raft of catch-up services‚ some have speculated that it’s the thin end of the wedge for the goggle box. At the same time‚ we’ve since seen the Internet come to our TVs‚ widgets on our big screens and the arrival of 3D from the cinema as well‚
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Television – Friend or Foe Communications technology is expanding through the entire global community. Children everywhere are born into a world of images and messages. In society today storytellers are rarely parents‚ grandparents‚ and teachers‚ but instead there are a handful of tar-away forces with something to sell. The media has become part of our culture as well as our identity. There are many different kinds of media‚ which comes in many different forms. For example‚ television‚ radio
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Angeline Capot ANT 8:00am film Discussion Paper #4 Globalization The first two videos‚ “Global Mind” and “No Logo‚” explain two different point of views on globalization. The video of “Global Mind‚” addresses many different areas that globalization effects and they kind of promoted them. Whereas‚ the other video‚ “No Logo‚” they kind of talk negatively and say that they only care about brands. In “Global Mind‚” they dress five different aspects of globalization; innovation‚ culture‚ economics‚ society
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The statistics are famous and unnerving. Most high-school graduates have spent more time watching television than they’ve spent in school. That blight has been overtaking us for fifty years‚ but it’s only in the past two decades that I’ve begun to notice its greatest damage to us–the death of personal imagination. In all the millennia before humans began to read‚ our imaginations were formed from first-hand experiences of the wide external world and especially from the endless flow of stories
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TALK SHOWS The television talk show is‚ on the face of it‚ a rather strange institution. We pay people to talk for us. Like the soap opera‚ the talk show is an invention of twentieth century broadcasting. It takes a very old form of communication‚ conversation‚ and transforms it into a low cost but highly popular form of information and entertainment through the institutions‚ practices and technologies of television. The talk show did not originate over night‚ at one time‚ or in one place. It
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A talk show(American and Australian English) or chat show (British) is a television program or radio program where one person (or group of people) discuss various topics put forth by a talk show host.[1] Usually‚ ‚ usually consisting of a group of people who are learned or who have great experience in relation to whatever issue is being discussed on the show for that episode. Other times‚ a single guest discusses their work or area of expertise with a host or co-hosts. A call-in show takes live
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REALITY SHOWS gave a new face to Indian Television. They started with very few but reached to a number which was not expected and today they have a new standard. There are different types of reality shows some real and fiction. In this report there is mention of start of reality shows and how these shows have changed over the years. Also topic of various types of reality shows be it real or imitated. There is also inclusion of how there is lack of innovation in our shows as most of the shows aired
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In Peter Weir’s thought provoking-film The Truman Show the viewer is enticed by the utopian Seahaven. Cinematography such as camera angles‚ music‚ lighting‚ editing and other techniques promote and reinforce the film’s central issues. Delving into the vehement desire of the human spirit to be free and the cunning manipulation of the media‚ the viewer is left exhilarated. Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey)‚ the protagonist‚ after living a sheltered life in Seahaven is struck by an epiphany. Realizing that
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