Differences Between Television And Television

Watching television is such a common part of contemporary society, that most Americans adopted it as a part of their daily routine and watch television for at least an hour a day. Stanley Crouch, a poet, music and cultural critic, writes: “Whenever people pretentiously and proudly announce, “I don’t watch television,” they should follow it up with “I don’t look at America either”” (Masciotra 79). Television has become a part of many people’s lives. When the mass population watches the same television shows, movies, etc. they can all relate to each other, and thus unite them as an American. We look to TV shows to see how other people like us act on-screen. Aaron Morales, the author of American Mashup: A Popular Culture Reader states: “We watch movies, visit websites, and scour online profiles, all in an effort to glean from a variety of sources those traits that we feel best suit how we identify ourselves” (Morales 65). Movie characters can change the personalities and point of views in our society. Movies can inspire and motivate a society to change its social norms. For example, The Harry Potter Series is a well-known book that is popularized over the years through television advertisements. The reason Harry Potter is special is because he is like everyone else, but he is dealing with different problems. People can relate to the aspect of the characters and

The world has grown and evolved in so many ways. One of the most revolutionary, man-made, everyday appliance for your house hold is the TV. The TV has brought so much more to a person’s finger tips at a click of a button and flipping to a channel to what they want to see. You can watch different food programs, where to buy things, what is going on in everyday American life knows as the “News”. Or just a show on TV for entertainment. And the list goes on and so forth.

     But, for most part, author feel television is 'drug'; that is corrupting today's society. Many of us fail to recognize how it has caused the decline of family rituals, the avoidance of relationships and the destruction of the family. Our addiction to this daily habit cause us to escape the real world.

The theory of our reality is explained to be ‘Reflective’. The reflective hypothesis would see the media as essentially passive. The way we live our life is mirrored by media. “People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.” Jess C. Scott, Literary Heroin (Gluttony) Every passing day we realize that our lives look very similar to those who are on television or on social media apps. Tv was used as an entertainment media, which is reflected towards society. For example, the TV shows “I Love Lucy” and “The honeymooners” were reflective on the role of women during 1950’s. They had an effective foundation on gender roles

Television executive Lauren Zalaznick, gave a presentation called “The conscience of television” for TED Talk which she discussed past five decades of the highest standing shows on air. Zalaznick runs studies which go to great lengths on how the topics of television shows changed from decade to decade and how viewers changed the reason of watching based on what was happening in the world. Television’s conscious effects our emotions, challenges our values, and influences our views on the world by what we choice to watch.

illusion, a life where television is one’s reality. This is how life is represented in Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, in which a society has changed into

Also, Television attacks more the unconsciousness rather than the consciousness. Hamill says that, similarly to drugs, television is a consciousness-altering instrument (64), but this is not true. First, television cannot do more than depictions of sensations. Hamill explains how television can provide several moods and scenarios with the simple touch of a button (64). He says so because he is looking for a proof to support the power over the mind that television is meant to have, but rather this shows how television works on the unconsciousness and how difficult it is to alter the

Humans are curious creatures, we try to find the meaning in everything. Whether it is through our relationships, school, or life in general, we are always exploring to find the answer. In Robert Scholes’ article, On Reading a Video Text, illustrates how pop culture seems to demolish the meaning that people find in simple things like commercials and videos.

For instance, when the town is being bombed Montag imagines Mildred in a hotel “leaning [toward the parlor walls] anxiously nervously as if to plunge, drop , fall into that swarming immensity of color to drown in happiness…[as the bombs strike] the walls go dark in Millie’s face… [she screams] because in the millionth part of life left she saw her own face reflected there, in a mirror instead of a crystal ball” (152). Usually people on TV programs are displayed as being perfect people and having the perfect life and everything works out perfectly for them. Mildred as well as many other people are longing to have that perfect life so they become addicted to that TV program because they want it feel like they are apart of it. However, because of the bombing happening the parlor shuts off and Mildred is able to see her own reflection in the blank screen. She screams because she sees her own face and what it actually looks like instead of that perfect person she thought she was from the TV program. People get so attached to technology that they see themselves as a completely different person and won’t recognize their own

(SIP-A) The TV has become the reality for many of the civilians in society such as Mildred, who are addicted to the TV because they believe that the TV is a reality. (STEWE-1)Montag asks Mildred for help and instead she doesn’t give him help because she is watching TV when Montag asks Mildred to turn off the TV,"'Will you turn the parlor off?''that's my family'" (47)people of society are barely human because the TV makes itself into reality and brainwashes people such as Mildred into thinking that she has a family on the TV. (STEWE-2)Also, when Montag sees Mildred go crazy over watching the White Clown he asks Mildred, “Millie? Does the white clown love you?”(73). Montag sees Mildred's addiction to technology and asks Mildred the question. Because of the reality that technology has made itself into, Mildred answers with ignorance, “Why did you ask a silly question like that?”(73). (SIP-B)One of the closest sane human in society, Faber, also agrees that television is only addicting because it becomes a perfect reality. (STEWE-1)When Montag replies to Faber’s second idea that society is missing Faber replies with“Off hours yes. But time to think?...” (80) Faber sees this and tells Montag that the TV makes itself the truth so people can become addicted, and to keep people occupied. As a result people are not thinking but rather stuck to a TV. (STEWE-2)“You play

Barbara Ehrenreich expresses her utter distaste for television in The Worst Years of Our Lives based in the 1980’s. Ehrenreich writes numerous assertions in regard to television’s unrealistic portrayal of every day life. She raises a valid argument when she points out that TV watchers will never see the commonplace facets of human life depicted on their TV screen. Instead, they watch shows filled with fake people, plastic smiles, ungenuine conversations, and unrealistic tasks all combined into a program that epitomizes the way in which we don’t live. Television distracts people from actually living their lives so instead they live vicariously through TV shows, wasting their lives away.

Often times we use television as an escape route, a tube to pull us away from the pains of our true reality, but what are we escaping? TV is a hypnotic box of propaganda, used to program American morals and values. Negative images in Technicolor has blurred the lines of our perceptions. TV is the piece of technology developed to control the minds off the masses through social, economic, and political order.

As the semester goes on, I become more and more media literate. In the beginning of the semester, I watched television with for what it was, I didn’t think about some of the deeper messages contained within the show. After reading and viewing many examples of representation in media, I feel like I have a more firm grasp of how to analyze television. Now, while viewing, I look for things such as race, gender, sexuality and even the companies that produce the media.

Television entertainment is a form of escapism. "It [entertainment] takes us away from our reality and transports us to another world—not our own” (Ghosain). Shows like Breaking Bad and I Love Lucy execute this so effectively because they create a fictitious context in which surreal actions and consequence can be explored. Fictional narrative allows viewers to explore cultural ideology and concepts radically different from reality.

Thus the greatest effect these episodes have is that they spark a discussion and shake up people's original perception of the issue. Maya Syag Reflection During this project I began to understand the true meaning of TV portrayals and their effect on me personally in addition to the effect on