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capital. Putnams thesis is that television as a whole is responsible for the erosion of social capital, but Norris (1996) claims ...
uncommon side effect of televisions assault on the senses, found particularly evident with teenagers. Television is responsible f...
to violent acts in the news and other programming content. Television is not alone in this respect, however. Newspapers and even...
it comes to news publications. Some writers begin as stringers for local papers and attend PTA meetings for example, where they re...
In five pages this paper discusses postmodern television within the contexts of social commentary and parody. Five sources are ci...
In six pages an article addressing the problems of children who spend too much time engaging in sedentary activities such as watch...
In six pages this paper discusses how violence in television is represented in reality, horror, and children's program genres. Fi...
culture, but it has also been an immensely influential source in its own right. Television does influence the people who watch i...
the most popular television stars for each episode in the series. At one time, the popular media published the fact that each of t...
particularly when a known controversial figure assisted the act? What happened was that Thomas Youk was given a lethal injectio...
young children, although incontestable, is one of the prominent societal concerns of the time. Such graphical violence has been d...
influence of the mass media, especially television, in defining the perspectives on certain issues. One of the misnomers of the ma...
analyse what they see in the media, and consider whether it offers a valid option or not, children do not have the same level of d...
type of violence on television shows be regulated? The immediate reaction to the question is: What about the First Amendment tha...
want to know why it is happening. Generally speaking, where any news is concerned we never get the whole story from just one netwo...
are film crews following them around, watching every action, recording every word. But, are these shows truly all they claim, or a...
of Hamlets famous soliloquies, except for the ones which heightened dramatic impact, such as "To Be or Not to Be." He shrewdly ch...
Articles by sociologists Ien Ang, George Comstock, and Ron Lembo on watching television are compared and contrasted in five pages ...
relates to ones personal development, which has been suspected of influencing the rising violent tendency of juveniles. II. TELEV...
conscience. Said Macbeth: "One cried "God Bless us! And "Amen!" the other, as they had seen me with these hangmans hands. Listning...
Health in 1982. The conclusion of the research that had been conducted in those ten years indicated that watching violence on tele...
million and that the number of violent crimes committed by juveniles will more than double by 2010 (Briscoe, 1997). Unless action...
2001). The Japanese manufacturers allocate larger percentages to local spots - Nissan put 35 percent into spot TV, Honda put 33 pe...
and trust-busting sentiments, put the brakes on the greediest corporate pillagers and the concentration of economic power; demande...
If we isolate out industry consideration to the cable television companies that we can look this as a mature industry. In 1997 the...
the Royal Institution in London, England. Images appeared on his television set which were complete with tonal gradations of light...
has bias as well. Media reporting and slanting can make a good company seem bad; can make a bad company seem wonderful and in gene...
more than provide a reflection of the times, or to subconsciously inform women and girls about their roles. In many cases, the med...
of the Long Island environment. II. TV REPLACES HUMAN IMAGES Like its computer counterpart, Mander (1978) indicates that televis...
could readily relate. His approach to comedy was like his approach to life: if you cannot laugh, you cannot live. Indeed, Berles...