Addictive or Not Addictive? That Is The Question Marie Winn‚ author of “TV Addiction” states that‚ “television viewing‚ for those vulnerable to addiction‚ is more like drinking or taking drugs- once you start it’s hard to stop” (609). Winn strongly believes that television is so addicting that it can and will ruin people’s lives. The meaning of addiction according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary is the compulsive need for and use of a habit-forming substance (such as heroin‚ nicotine‚ alcohol)
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SEXUAL TEENS‚ SEXUAL MEDIA Investigating Media’s Influence on Adolescent Sexuality LEA’s COMMUNICATION SERIES Jennings Bryant / Dolf Zillmann‚ General Editors Selected titles in Communication Theory and Methodology Subseries (Jennings Bryant‚ series advisor) include: Berger • Planning Strategic Interaction: Attaining Goals Through Communicative Action Dennis/Wartella • American Communication Research: The Remembered History Ellis • Crafting Society: Ethnicity‚ Class and Communication Theory
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Do you like watching TV? It is all around us. People spend a lot of time watching it. There are three main reasons why TV is good: you can get information‚ you can get enjoyment‚ and you can learn. First‚ TV is good because of information given. There are some great channel on TV such as weather channel and discovery channel and culture. For example you can check the weather by TV and know about how the weather is change not just in area you live event about around the area you live. Another thing
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Many people believe that TV programs are no value. Do you agree ? Since our parents’ generation‚ the argument of the value of TV programs was begin. People debate about the advantages and disadvantages of the TV programs. Today‚ same like most of the IT product‚ TV is become the integral part of a family. If say all the TV programs are no value to people‚ that means most of the human in the world are probably make the same mistake. Obviously‚ it is not true. TV programs bring a lot of benefits
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TV Addiction It’s in the house of everyone. Some people having more than one‚ each in every room‚ even in the bathrooms. Television. From watching your favorite TV series‚ or those reality shows‚ the news or of course movies‚ TV has become a must have in a home. The average person until the age of 18 will have watched about 24000 hours of TV. In that time a person could’ve finished 2 years of university‚ could’ve studied 1 or 2 languages‚ speaking both of them almost fluently‚ or could’ve read
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The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0959-0552.htm Benefit segmentation of TV home shoppers Hyejune Park Department of Retail‚ Hospitality‚ and Tourism Management‚ University of Tennessee‚ Knoxville‚ Tennessee‚ USA Benefit segmentation 7 Received 16 September 2009 Revised 17 June 2010 Accepted 21 June 2010 Chae-Mi Lim Marketing‚ School of Business Administration‚ Philadelphia University‚ School House Lane & Henry Avenue‚ Philadelphia
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TV For Children Television plays an important role in our daily life and it exerts a very large influence on people‚ especially children. Watching television may be a kind of relaxation for children but it can result a lot of disadvantages upon children if we misuse it. The disadvantages of television for children can be vividly seen in the society. As we known‚ things that we usually do can become a habit of us. Like this‚ if children usually watch television‚ it will surely become a habit
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Yes! My favorite TV show is coming on! My favorite TV show is Love & Hip Hop. Even though‚ Love & Hip Hop is a great show; it’s a harmful view of the world. Television is harming our view of the world by displaying bad characters and in adult content. Television is harming our view of the world by displaying bad characters. Showing bad characters harms our view of the world because it makes people want to be something they are not. The characters you see on TV are bullies‚ drug dealers
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Adversity story Rape‚ depression‚ stress‚ things that nobody is comfortable talking about. But each of these things are very serious and many teens have these things in their life. Adolescents are a very crucial time in life. All teens have as story‚ but very few are telling them. In the novel Speak‚ Melinda is affected by these topics and she has trouble finding her own voice. Without telling her story she is making herself worse and more traumatized. It is important that adolescents tell their
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with‚ contraception (Kendall‚ 2011). Many teenagers‚ however‚ do not use contraceptives. One reason why this might be is because of the level of influence the media has on our society. In 1988‚ on average‚ Americans watched TV seven hours a day. Teenagers watched 24 hours of TV a week and listened to 18.5 hours of music a week (Lynn & Bernards‚ 1988). Other forms of media include advertising‚ films‚ magazines‚ and music. Another micro-level factor is that some teenagers view pregnancy as a way
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