New Style of Televisuality

Popular culture is the artistic and creative expression in entertainment and style that appeals to society as whole. It includes music, film, sports, painting, sculpture, and even photography. It can be diffused in many ways, but one of the most powerful and effective ways to address society is through film and television. Broadcasting, radio and television are the primary means by which information and entertainment are delivered to the public in virtually every nation around the world, and they have become a crucial instrument of modern social and political organization. Most of today’s television programming genres are derived from earlier media such as stage, cinema and radio. In the area of comedy, sitcoms have proven

Australian TV shows have changed rapidly over the years. The decades that will be discussed in this presentation include the 1960’s, 1970’s, 1980’s, 1990’s and the 2000’s. Australian TV has influenced many changes in our society; some of these included fashion trends, hobbies, job courses, the food we eat, our opinions on things and, the way that we view ourselves and others. Some social issues have arisen over the years include the negative effects on our youth due to television watching.

Thus far, pubic television has failed to adopt popular media forms. Public television stations such as PBS failed to attract larger and more diverse audiences because they kept their programming intellectual and dull rather than building on popular aspects of television culture. Ouellette and Lewis argue that PBS could have incorporated sitcoms, soaps, and sports into their programming and then

TV: Visual and sound impact: puts the scene explicit, Current, It is comfortable: it does not require the viewer's effort.

As television viewers, we tend to slouch in front of this electrical box after a long day’s work, many of us don’t think or know about how much television programming has changed since our parent’s childhood. In “Thinking outside the Idiot Box” by Dana Stevens and “Watching TV Makes You Smarter” by Steven Johnson, both writers give their thoughts and opinions about how television programming has evolved over the last three decades. These gentlemen recognize that the days of slap-stick comedy were over and replace by more sophisticated stories. This new brand of programs have provide a step stoning for the evolution of television to gain momentum.

A cutting edge television viewer would likely see little likeness between old TV shows and the current television environment. From smaller standardized TVs broadcasting shows like, “Leave it to Beaver” to HDTVs broadcasting “How I Met Your Mother” ,TV and the way we see it has made some amazing progress.The development of television shows has been definitely modified by culture, trends, and demographics.

Since its inception in the 1950s, television has become an integral part of American society. Television has always been a means of entertainment, but it has developed into something further. Television is a tool that can reflect and nurture values and morals. Throughout the years, television and our society have had a symbiotic relationship. Our culture influenced television, while television influenced our society. When The Truman Show came out, it embodied our media culture from the past, but it also predicted what was to come after the movie was released. When television networks first came on the scene, they consciously stayed clear from

It wasn’t until the 1960s that the television became an everyday commodity in society. To go along with the already popular dramas and comedies, tv became a major outlet for news as CBS evening news and 60 minutes debuted (Herman). Sports broadcasting also made huge strides during the early 1960s as Wide World of Sports aired on ABC, instant replay became a standard in sports broadcasting, CBS and NBC both broadcasted Super Bowl one in color (Herman). As television gained popularity the range of the topics presented on television shows went to more controversial and relevant topics in hopes to relate with the typical viewer. The subjects of the television shows for the most part have stayed the same over the past 40 years, but some have

How industrial norms and conditions that matter to television content because they create specific textual outcomes, norms of each television era have made certain types of programs more likely and as the norms and conditions have changed so has the range of textual possibility. For example, the introduction of subscription supported channels led to programs that would not have been allowed on broadcast networks. Because channels that function under this economic model require programming that will is considered valuable enough to entice viewers to pay for their service and are not restricted by the same strict regulations as ad-supported networks, they must provide programs that views cannot find elsewhere, which leads them to push

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.

TV, more commonly known as ‘television’ is one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century. In ancient Greek tèle means ‘far', and in Latin visio means sight. From my perspective and many people of the world television has changed the way we live. Television has brought many amazing things, however nothing is perfect.

Postmodernism has many different definitions as it has a range of contexts, but when thinking about television it can be defined as a “renewed appreciation for popular culture that often remixes other art works and pop culture in order to create something new” (Suto, 2013). Collins (1992) agrees with this and says it was a significant cultural movement that developed in the 20th century following the modernism period, where there was a “move away from abstraction and geometrics to the overly familiar and massed produced”, and invention was replaced with rearticulation, meaning that a lot of what we see now, especially in terms of media, has been created using ideas, references or elements drawn from other works. Television shows are a significant part of this postmodernism movement where different techniques combine to create unique and exciting programmes that are different from any seen before, including those like the well-known Glee show, Futurama, and of course the iconic Simpsons, which is the first that comes to mind when we think of postmodern TV culture as it has become so renowned and iconic.

In all TV programmes, the producers will have made their best attempt to craft the show to appeal to their targeted audience (Bignell, 2008). With this in mind, they would have carefully considered production elements such as the choice of presenter, types of segments, camerawork, visual effects, sound, vision mixing and editing, set design and costumes when thinking about how they can attract and target particular viewers. The evidence of this has been on CBS’s ever so popular late night talk show, ‘The Late, Late Show with James Corden’, where the producers have successfully employed these techniques, to create a show that appeals to their target demographic of males and females aged 18 to 49 (Heller, 2016).

According to the presentations and reports made by the presentations from The Resource Media (2012), TV presentation involves a variety of areas, namely; drama, spoken language, news presentation and advertisement presentations in general. Ideally, many individuals relate to different areas of TV presentation. This develops the idea that the culture of different age groups and communities around the world plays a significant role in the proximity of the content recognized in these institutions Haran, Kitzinger, McNeil & O’Riordan (2008). Additionally, according to these presentations, the age and cultural proximity of these audiences varies from the preferences of the individuals in terms of local productions to international products Haran, Kitzinger, McNeil & O’Riordan (2008). Therefore, these presentations surmount to the idea that different age groups have their unique viewing habits and motive that play a key role in identifying the characteristics of the content presented in the media (Cited in Craig & Deretchin, Eds.).

Television, a telecommunication medium some may not survive without. Today’s generation may refer to television as a technological norm; delusional of a world where television was non-existent. Notably, television unites the nation through local or world events, politics, education, and entertainment. Philo Farnsworth, “Father of Television,” invented the television; the electronic transmission of fixed or mobile images. Furthermore, Farnsworth’s invention influenced a new form of media. Young Farnsworth’s scientific, technological imagination as well as, competitive battle with a major-league corporation, RCA, enticed the growth of one of the most popular media mediums; television.