Television is a major influence on society. Most households own at least one television set and this gives them access to tons of content. There are many programs on that are somewhat connected to the American dream. Entertainment Tonight is a very popular program that glorifies celebrities. It brings the viewers inside celebrity houses, lifestyles etc. It makes the viewers feel like they are actually in a five million dollar mansion, or at the Oscar's, or that we are actually marrying Jennifer Lopez. This program shapes the American dream for us. By constantly showing us how celebrities live, it makes society want to live like that, therefore setting standards for the American dream. Before having a house was sufficient enough to please many people, it was their dream, now we need a mansion, a garage full of cars, an island and so on. Most TV shows don't make sense. In Friends, they live in an apartment in New York and they somehow pay rent without a job at times. Television shapes the dream and it changes our perspectives and our goals about attaining the dream.
Movies.
Movies are always directed towards an age level. Teenagers have different interests than adults and children and males have different interests than females so movies tend to be specified towards an age group. "Titanic" was aimed at teenage girls and "National Lampoon's Van Wilder" was mainly aimed at teenagers in general. Most movies incorporate the American dream in it, or at least parts of it. The good guy ALWAYS wins in movies, because we cannot imagine ourselves the bad guy. Movies like TV are unrealistic, except movies based on real events. But it is quite impossible for an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie or a Vin Diesel movie to actually happen. Out-running an avalanche on a snowboard while fighting off terrorists does not seem real, or even possible. But in the end they always get the girl. And that is what people want to see.
One of those things that we all have grown up with is television, or as most people call it, "T.V." People sometimes ask the question, "What is the good in television?" ... If you honestly think about it, it's really hard to picture life without television. ... The biggest thing on television surely has to be entertainment. ... Another great perk about having television is education. ...
Television has now become the leading vehicle for disseminating information to Americans. ... One researcher noted that a child's television experience, or the amount of time a child spends watching television, has some effects on his or her brain development (Winn, 1977, p. 46). ... Winn believes that the problem is not that children learn about sex by watching television but that viewing explicit or violent acts on television conditions children to deal with people as if they were on television screen (Winn, 1977, pp.73-74). ... The problem of too much sex on television has been furt...
In the mid 1940's, America was introduced to the home television. ... People began to rely on television for their news and entertainment. ... Television also provided people with a new source of entertainment in television programming like CBS's I Love Lucy and NBC's The Aldrich Family. Television connected Americans as they sat around their television sets watching The $64,000 Question on CBS. ... Still, television and newsprint are in most people's rotation. ...
Television has had a big impact in mass communication over the decades. ... The television probably would have progressed a lot faster but early television had problems to oversee. ... Social Issues Diversity in Television During the early years of television leading black performers were restricted to stereotypical roles. ... Recent television has dominated by news magazines. Cable television matured around the late 1990's which allowed people to watch a better variety of television programs. ...
Television advertising is not the sort of thing you watch television for. You watch television for insightful, entertaining television programs, not for nerve-straining irritating ads. ... But I am not alone in my anti-television advertising movement. ... To conclude, television advertising is a blemish on the entertaining nature of television in general. ... Television commercials are largely ignored, blatantly out of context and overall, an repulsive frame to the awe-inspiring portrait that is television. ...
Some people watch television because they want to be updated about what is happening in the world. ... Nowadays, not only adults and teenagers, but also children, get hooked on television. ... Television causes trauma on children, otherwise, desensitization. ... People also say that television can make children be aware and exposed of the real world. ... Violence already cannot be prevented on television programs that is why watching television is bad for children because it causes aggressiveness, trauma, and desensitization. ...
Television advertisements take advantage of children. ... That is what television advertising has done. ... For example, Hannah Montana is a big show on television. ... Kids want them because they see them on television. ... Today, it is normal to see explosions on television. ...
Some people may ask if television is harmful to children. ... Watching television too much can show many actions from children. ... Parents and children can make watching television an activity (44). ... In some cases, television may have a negative impact on children. ... While they are still young, set guidelines on how much television can be watched on television. ...
Have you ever wondered what the effects of children that watch too much television would be? ... The process from learning through the use of a television has minimal advantages and many disadvantages, especially speaking in terms of teaching children resulting in too much time spent behind the television screen. ... Postman states, "This is why I think it accurate to call television a curriculum. ... Children who watch a lot of television have an increased risk of overweight. ... Children who believe everything that they see on television can be misinformed. ...
Even in the beginning of the life of television, certain individuals had dreams of making the television an "entertainment phenomenon". Today, with more than 1 billion television sets spread throughout the world, and an average of 2.84 television sets in each household we rely more on TV than any other communication device (Inventing Television, 1999). ... To understand the effects of television and sex on our society and on our growing generations we can examine what acts are actually shown on television, who watches what, how children and teens respond to television, how soap operas and ot...
