For a long time, the domestic household has been dominated by women whereas men would have dominated the life and work outside of the home. In this essay I will discuss how media use and consumption in the home can be different to those in any other context. The role that gender can play in the living-room, and how difference in programs on the television can effect the difference in audiences, all while taking time and era into consideration as a factor.
During the 1920s “other companies struggled to compete in the new radio market, and the basic characteristics of broadcasting industry emerged” (Spigel 1992 P: 29) before the arrival of television in the home environment, the radio used to like the “fire place” of the home, or public, audience received news about the war via radio broadcast the fastest. Radio also broadcast poplar programs like west end musicals, political discussions and series like “war of the worlds” these were all the thing that families sat around and enjoyed together, and people were able to make contact with stations to review shows, and nowadays some of the ways to interact with the radio broadcast is to request for songs or enter competitions or the “call in for advice” type radio programs. Before the rise of home entertainment, audiences receives forms of media by going to theatre or cinema, where the whole area is gathered with massive amount of people, these people can respond together or even have discussion after the viewing, it brought people together. We are now becoming more aware of the notion that consumption of media is becoming more and more privatised.
Since the invention entertainment media in the domestic household, such as the TV and radio, meanings of “family time” has changed si...
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...nd newspapers. All of them can be found alternatively on the internet anywhere, so people do not have to catch a show a certain place or time; whether it’s travelling to a different city for a musical concert, or it’s to come home early to watch your favourite soap opera, all can be consumed online or via WIFI. So really my opinion is that there is no real difference between the consumption of the media in the home or any other context.
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Television is not just a form of entertainment, but it is an excellent form of study of society’s view concerning its families. This study focuses on the history of television beginning in the early 1950s and will run through present day. It examines the use of racial, ethnic and sexual stereotypes to characterize the players of these shows. The examples assist in tracing what has happened to the depiction of the American family on prime time television. It reveals the change of the standards employed by network television as disclosed to the American public. Finally, I will propose the question of which is the influential entity, television or the viewing audience.
The explanation that Winn provides displays the negative effects to communication skills, especially in children, that television has supported by her real-life anecdotes and study results. With evidence, Winn shows the readers that her argument is compelling and convincing despite failing in terms of consideration of the fact that not all children have their communication skills damaged by television. Around fifty years ago, there has been an immensely powerful influence television has exerted onto today’s society, especially on families has shown to be deleterious. Marie Winn’s essay “Television: The Plug-In Drug,” disputes the greatly compromising effects against the quality of family life and the development of social skills due to the
Hilmes, Michele. Only Connect: A Cultural History of Broadcasting in the United States. 3rd ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2002. Print.
Nowadays television has become a popular activity in our daily life. For a satisfactory way or unsatisfactory way, television is an important fraction of a person’s life, and it not only an image of our society, but it aids to form who we are and how we communicate. For most of the audience, television represent a escape from the reality to worlds filled with power, excitement, significant, and magic. It makes dozens of people about their own misery, discontent. and insecurities. Often, popular televisions shows are a reflection of apprehension and dissatisfaction that numerous of Americans experience in their routines. But, it can also represent an social activity with friends or family. Activities such as playing violin, enjoying of a book, playing some cards or boardgames, and outdoors
Skill, T., & Robinson, J. D. (1994). Four decades of families on television: A demographic profile, 1950-1989. Journal Of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 38(4), 449.
Technology is largely celebrated in today’s modern culture. This is certainly understandable as technological advances harness the collective need to innovate and move forward. While the myriad of positive effects of technology are often recognized, one thing that does not receive as much attention is the potential drawbacks of living in a digital age. In her essay, “Can you Hear Me Now?,” Sherry Turkle addresses the many ways that technology has changed America’s collective culture in a somewhat negative manner. Included in this are observations about a reality of disconnection, lost rites of passage, and the substitution of interpersonal connections with impersonal connections. In “Reality Television: Oxymoron,” George Will succinctly highlights the general decline in substance in the media. In “Television: The Plug-in Drug,” Marie Winn offers a commentary on the tendency of television to contribute towards a breakdown of traditional family life. These observations reveal that with the many benefits technological advances bring to daily live comes an unforeseen change in the general cultural context of society. This thesis is significantly supported by the writings of both George Will and Marie Winn by articulating relevant issues about the substance on television. These two essays strongly support Turkle’s essay in terms of expressing the true problems brought by this cultural shift; however Turkle explains a stronger in-depth analysis on how television has negatively impacted America.
In “Wires and Lights in a Box,” the author, Edward R. Murrow, is delivering a speech on October 15, 1958, to attendees of the Radio-Television News Directors Association. In his speech, Murrow addresses how it is his desire and duty to tell his audience what is happening to radio and television. Murrow talks about how television insulates people from the realities in the world, how the television industry is focused on profits rather than delivering the news to the public, and how television and radio can teach, illuminate, and inspire.
TV plays a huge role in almost everyone’s life, it is how we get our news, it is entertainment, and whether people like to believe it or not it shapes the way we are as people. TV influences us with the commercials or just even advertising in TV shows it has some effect on us. Looking back ten years to shows like “That 70’s Show”, “Reba”, or even cartoons like “The Flintstones” all have one thing in common, which is they all revolve around family life. In “That 70’s Show” there is the Forman’s, which consisted of the parents Red and Kitty, and their two teenagers Eric and Laurie, and then later foster a son, Steven. In “That 70’s Show” the mom, Kitty, has a job as a nurse, the dad, Red, was a veteran...
According to D Gauntlett (2008), Media and communications are a central element of modern life, whilst gender and sexuality remain at the core of how we think about our identities. In modern societies, people spend more hours for watching television, look...
Gauntlett, D. Hill, A. BFI (1999) TV Living: Television, Culture, and Everyday Life, p. 263 London: Routledge.
The topic statement was heavily wrong in many aspects in terms of ignoring the difference and speciality of media use and media consumption in home environment. Home environment is a place for private life and intimated communication that is wholly contradicted with the unconcealed and diverse information flow in the public area. Compared with the complex interrelationship between individuals in public, family provides a rather explicitly relations around children, husband and wife. However, there are certain factors, like gender difference, hidden behind which is necessary to testify and excavate through ethnography includes feminist studies. In the essay, I will apply for certain previous studies to prove and demonstrate the distinctions of use and consumption of media in home environment versus outside home area.
Television is a form of media that has great ability to influence and brainwash the viewing public. The talking box in one’s living room has assumed the overpowering role it plays today as a result of the weakness of society. This may seem like a negative view but a society’s strength is based on the relationships between people and when so much time is spent away from others and together with the media, the actions that take place are often times a reflection of what television presents. In President Clinton’s speech, he brings forth this very point and he acknowledges the family’s increasing weakness and calls on all people to bring back the values of the past and stop the media from playing such a huge role in our community. The overwhelming influence of the media is a constant threat to the maintenance of traditional family values and to the protection of our children’s future. Nevertheless, television cannot be changed for it is too big and powerful but compromises can be made that can strengthen society and help keep certain values protected.
Audience reception is a critical area of focus and research when approaching media audiences. It is dependent on the context of viewing, making media use and media consumption within the home environment and other contexts an interesting area of study. During the 1980s the emergence and increasing use of television increased media research into consumption in an everyday context, addressing the domestic, the family and its contribution to daily life. The importance can be displayed through the centrality of the position of the television and how the arrangement of a living room is commonly based around this. According to David Morely (1986) patterns of television consumption can only be understood through the context of ‘family leisure activity’ (Schroder, Drotner, Kline, Murray, 2003: 8). Therefore in order to discuss whether the aspects within the home environment and other contexts differ in terms of consumption, it is fundamental in exploring family viewing and the patterns of everyday life. With the rise of new media and constant technological developments, media within the home have succumbed to fragmentation. Televisions can be used as an illustration, traditionally located in communal areas to the shift of location in every bedroom, along with the vast amount of channels available, the different platforms we can watch it on and developments that allow catch-up. ‘Furthermore the set has acquired a range of accessories and attachments such as videocassette recorders (VCRs), personal computers and remote controls, which have significantly modified the way it is used (Lee, Becker and Schonbach, 1989: 71). The diverse amount of media platforms available both in and outside our homes has somewhat merged, making it difficult to d...
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