Throughout a regular day, people have to go up against numerous types of mass media resources. For intense they are faced with Smartphones, television, magazines, newspapers, radio, movies and the internet . Mass media have definitely changed the way we live our daily lives, it has changed our lifestyles since the late 15th century until now. One of the biggest mass media resource nowadays is the Smartphone. A Smartphone provides you with pretty much everything. It supplies you with television programs, magazines, newspaper, radio, and movies. A Smartphone is the most well rounded resource of mass media ever, however it wasn’t the first apparatus invented. Back in the day there were other mechanisms that were considered the best thing ever during that time. It all started with a guy named Philo Farnsworth in 1927,when the television was first invented. In a book called Television: Technology and Cultural Form by Raymond Williams, who was a Welch academic, novelist and critic, noted, “Television was invented as a result of scientific and technological research. It powers as a medium of news and entertainment was then so great that it altered all preceding media of news and entertainment.” Many speak and say the television has altered this world. Television was invented as a technological research and then became so popular amongst the people as entertainment. Beyond any doubt, this source of mass media has and is changing our lifestyles. Television is with us wherever we are, it eventually becomes a part of us. We watch TV as we eat breakfast, eat lunch, and eat dinner. Television wakes up with us and goes to sleep with us. It gives us pleasure, it is sometimes boring us, and most definitely challenges us. Excessive violent ... ... middle of paper ... ...tween countries." IT & society 1.7 (2004): 39-45. Hesse, Bradford W., et al. "Trust and sources of health information: the impact of the Internet and its implications for health care providers: findings from the first Health Information National Trends Survey." Archives of internal medicine165.22 (2005): 2618-2624. Khadem, Saghar. "Security issues in smartphones and their effects on the telecom networks." (2010). Koetsier, John. "800 million Android smartphones, 300 million iPhones in active use by December 2013, study says." venturebeat. com (2013). Robertson, Helena, and Robert Hancox. "Childhood and adolescent television viewing and antisocial behavior in early adulthood."Pediatrics 131.3 (2013): 439-446. Silverstone, Roger. Television and everyday life. Routledge, 1994. Williams, Raymond. Television: Technology and cultural form. Psychology Press, 2003.
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...on and bring pleasure in the form of entertainment. Even though television, a technology that produce moving picture and current events affected the lives of America from 1930s to 1960s. They found a way to recuperate by minimizing the use of television and maximizing the use of the outside world.
The ‘Golden Age of Television’ is what many refer to as the period between the 1950s and 60s when the television began to establish itself as a prevalent medium in the United States. In 1947, the American Broadcasting Company (ABC), Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), and the Du Mont Network were the four main television networks that ran stations with regular programming taking place. (Television, 2003) While regular television programming was a new innovation, the television itself had been commercially available for over twenty years prior to the 50s. It was conceived by many worldly innovators and went through several testing stages before it was finally completed in the late twenties. The three main innovators were Niplow - who first developed a rotating disk with small holes arranged in a spiral pattern in 1884, Zworykin - who developed the Iconoscope which could scan pictures and break them into electronic signals (a primitive form of the Cathode Ray Tube) in 1923, and lastly Fansworth - who demonstrated for the first time that it was possible to transmit an electrical image in 1927. (Rollo, 2011) However, one of the many reasons why this medium was successful in the 50s was due to the fact that it became more accessible to the public. Television sets were more affordable to middle class citizens which created further interest in the new technology. Through an historical account of the medium, the spread of television across America throughout this particular decade will be examined.
Television has long been a part of American culture. From its conception until today there have been people who believe that television is a waste of time and energy and there have been those in the opposite camp who believe that television should be a part of every American life. There is also a middle ground of people who watch television to keep informed on what’s happening in the world as well as entertained by the latest sitcom, or more popularly today, reality show.
Before analyzing the history of Rock n’ Roll television, the history of how watching television came to become a popular must come into question. To summarize briefly, the invention of television was in development since the 1870s, however the first demonstration of live transmitted images in motion was in 1925 lead by Scottish inventor John Logie Baird (Radio Shows Far Away Objects in Motion). The image was of Baird’s business partner Oliver Hutchinson (Television), showing a mere five frames per second, it was an impressive sight for the time. With perfection of the invention, electronic televisions had been developed by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin with the help of the RCA radio...
Before television existed people had to depend on Radio stations to receive their little bit of entertainment and news. But in 1878, the invention of TV began. The first TV made didn’t look anything like the way TV’s look today. It was a mechanical camera with a large spinning disc attached to it (Kids Work). But as over the years, of course, inventions of different TV’s progressed and by the 20th century about 90 percent of our population had a TV in their household (MGHR). Television today is mainly used for people take a break from their life by relaxing and enjoying some entertainment.
In “Television as a Cultural Forum” and Parks and Recreation: The Cultural Forum”, Horace Newcomb and Paul Hirsch, and Heather Hendershot, respectively, address the role of television as a cultural forum in different eras of television, with Newcomb and Hirsch writing on the Network Era of television in the mid-1980s and Hendershot writing about the Post-Network Era of the 2010s. As explained by Hendershot, her revision of Newcomb and Hirsch’s original cultural forum theory was necessitated by the industrial conditions of the Post-Network Era which fragmented viewing audiences across multiple platforms and channels so that the collectivity inherent in the original theory of the cultural forum is no longer applicable. As such, Hendershot presents
Television can be considered a cultural forum. By cultural forum, this means issues and points of view can be discussed openly and almost without punishment. These issues can vary anywhere from male dominance in the household, to wars, to racism, to political jabs and still be covered under freedom of speech. Television can hold a wide variety of opinions which may offend, but for the most part due so to prove a point.
Television is everywhere these days, not just in our living rooms but in bathrooms, kitchens, doctor's offices, grocery stores, airplanes, and classrooms. We have access to TV virtually anywhere and as American's we are taking advantaged of it. Adults aren't the only ones watching TV; children today are watching more TV than ever before. TV has even become known as "America's baby-sitter." (Krieg). Meaning that parents are now using the television as a way of entertaining their children while they attempt to accomplish other things such as cooking and cleaning.
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Television violence is also a cause of both violent and aggressive behavior in teenage boys. According to the evidence in a study done by Turner, Hesse, and Peterson-Lewis, it was concluded that watching television violence had a long-term increase in aggression in boys (Hough 1). In addition to this study, Dr. William A. Belson evaluated fifteen hundred boys, aged thirteen to sixteen years, and he determined that boys with heavy television exposure are more likely to commit violent acts than other boys (Langone 51). In Belson’s study, he discovered that the effect of each violent act on television was collective, and over time, Belson discovered that the boys engaged in many aggressive acts, including painting graffiti, breaking windows, aggressive play, swearing, and threatening other boys with violence (Kinnear 26).
Television has become one of the major entertainment providers in our modern life. It sits in the living room of about almost every home in the world and it is the one thing that most people like to come home to after a long day of work or school. Not only does it give us something to laugh or get scared at but it also provides us with valuable information about what is happening around our local community and around different places in the world. But, as good as this sounds, Television may be affecting us without even realizing it. Being one of the major distractors in today 's society, it gets us attached to its content in which a lot of people spend a lot of their time watching. Being thus, watching too
Hence, any debate of the future becoming digital must take into consideration the reaction of the media to the technological innovations of the world, from the Personal Computers (PC) to the smallest Smartphone. Although mass media has increased with technological innovations, what driv...