Introduction In this day and age, television is seen as the most useful technology in the world where we get enough information, entertainment and knowledge. People believe that it is more preferable to have a television rather than to watch a live play in the theatre due to the freedom of relaxation and high level of participation. In this essay, Marshall McLuhan’s technology is the extension of human senses along with Walter Benjamin’s reproduction of art would be analyzed. The main of this essay is to analyze two theoretical concepts and compare them to one another in relation to television and also how these two theoretical concepts would approach television as a technology. Television is a machine with a screen, which is used for …show more content…
Then in 1906, Philo Taylor Farnsworth who was twenty-one years old at that time invented electrical Television on September 7th, 1927. During that time, electrical television was still black and white; later on colour television was first introduced in the United States in 1953. Television moved from just news and silent films to soap operas, cartoons, music videos and other types of informational and entertainment things which influences us positively and negatively.
Theories
Marshall McLuhan, who was a Canadian communication theorist, was very much interested in technology and how it shapes the advanced modern society. His very famous theory was “the medium is the message” which means that the resource used or mode through which they are presenting shows the message, not really the content. This theory then leads to how technology is seen as an extension to human senses. McLuhan stated, “Media have powerful effects on societies. Moreover, media become extensions of ourselves; extensions of our human senses” (Laughey, 2010, p. 33). Just like the way our eyes see, our nose smell, our skin feels and our other senses have their function, McLuhan emphasis the fact that technology is the extension of our psychological, social and intellectual (inner) senses. In relation to Television as a technology, McLuhan would agree that technology is an extension to our human sense due to the fact that in recent days it is something that is used everyday. Humans use
Steven Johnson’s book, Everything Bad Is Good For You, paints a modern picture of the way in which technology has affected us in a mostly positive way. Johnson has also written about neuroscience, computer technology, and media studies in his previous books. In his book Everything Bad Is Good For You, Johnson uses comparisons between two different eras of television to point out the varying complexities between the simple plotlines of older TV, and the highly complex plotlines of modern TV. For example, people can watch television dramas such as 24, which in comparison to older shows are many times more complicated and more difficult to understand. If the much less complicated show Hill Street Blues confused the developing TV audiences of
Television invented in the late year of 1927. One of the world’s greatest inventions, but just because TV is a great invention, doesn’t mean it’s always the best thing for the audience. Here are some pros, cons, and my opinion on TV.
What role does television play in society? For decades we have seen many parts of our world rapidly going through changes in technology. Today’s society has been transformed by means of communication and the available information through mass media. Most Americans rely on television for news, sports, and entertainment. Television is just one of the many examples of how technology has changed our lives. Since the invention of the television in the early 1900’s, it has played a very important role in our lives. Having a television set in the home has become very essential in today’s society. We depend on it to entertain us with its sitcoms and to inform us about current world issues. The
had been around for decades, but it was not until the 1920’s that scientists perfected the advanced technology. Many inventors came into play when it came to the various systems used to create the first T.V., but no one is to be named the “inventor.” Scientists spent decades trying to find a breakthrough, and it was not until the 21th century that it was found. Charles Francis Jenkin’s system helped lead to the first construction of the T.V. He had demonstrated a scanning system with a revolving disk, he called it “radio vision.” Jenkins system worked but the images were blurry. Another inventor named Herbert E. Ives invented his own system called the “185 line system.” Philo Taylor Farnsworth was another key inventor. In 1927, he developed the “image dissector.” This was the first ever working electronic camera tube. Philo was motivated by his system and continued trying. His hard work led him to invent the first fully electronic T.V. system. A radio corporation named the RCA, was very intrigued by his work and sent their own engineer to Philo’s lab. This engineer perfected Philo’s “iconoscope;” a camera tube ("History of Television”). After this perfection of the T.V., the United States of America was changed forever. Soon after, there was a rapid growth in technology. The T.V. brought entertainment and opened peoples eyes to the good and bad parts of American culture, through the images and movies shown on the screen. Today, over 238 million T.V.’s
In the center of millions of homes in America, you will find a television. Since 1962, television has educated, cultivated, inspired, and intrigued people all over the world. Making this great device was far more complicated than what we know today.
TV: Visual and sound impact: puts the scene explicit, Current, It is comfortable: it does not require the viewer's effort.
Attention Getter: The Father of Television could not possibly imagine that his contributions and innovations would have such an amazing effect, because of Philo Farnsworth the first electric television was produced, now 89% of households worldwide have televisions (Ahonen, 2011).
When Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase “the medium is the message” back in 1967, we were facing a very different society than we are today. His focus was of course on the mediums of the time: radio, newsprint and television. Mark Federman, a Chief Strategist for the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology asserts in his article, What is the Meaning of the Medium is the Message? (2004), McLuhan was not speaking directly about the medium itself. His thought process went to a deeper level. Federman “note[s] that it is not the content or use of innovation, but the change in inter-personal dynamics that the innovation brings with it” that is the issue. In a world that we can now access hundreds of thousands of bits of information in milliseconds, we can certainly see a shift in media influence. Today we can actually watch events as they unfold, whether they are events for a greater good or events of horrific acts of terrorism, technology has enabled society to be omnipresent. Melody Thompson (2011) refers to Jaron Lanier in discussing how technology shapes our relationship to itself. She notes that Lanier believes technology imposes on us its own viewpoint and that shapes our decisions. In a world where we live with a 24 hour news cycle and news stations that can skew their reporting to send the message they want their viewers to hear, it is quite prophetic when Lanier states “it
When Philo was growing up he didn't have electricity in his house. So he later thought about shining a new light into the world of electricity. He created to television by using a disc about 2 feet in diameter to scan and transport the image onto the television screen. He used a “glass slide, smoked it with carbon and scratched a single line on it. This was placed in a carbon arc projector and shone onto the photocathode of the first camera
Television has had large impacts on American society once it became widely available, which occurred during the 1950s. Most American households owned a television. The creation of news outlets on television led to the American public to be exposed much that they wouldn’t ever have been exposed to without. There were no restrictions on the device yet for what they could or couldn’t show. Television would go on to create the largest impacts on American society, impacts that even continue today. Commercials became commonplace for the public, Civil rights would gain tons of support, and television would be one of the leading causes that attributed to the United States loss of the Vietnam War.
This invention was already invented in 1927 however in the 1950s television had a nice upgrade to it which got people's attention. From the statics and information from the “Living History Farm Organization” stated that “Television was the first audio-visual aid that opened the door towards the realm of recreation and mass communication”(Rose). Before these two decades were over the three national programs were offering productions that were alternately ridiculous. Later on in 1952 information coming from the LHFO, “television news was able to broadcast the Republican and Democratic conventions live from Philadelphia to the rest of the nation. Between the years 1949 and 1969, the numbers in the U.S. with at least one TV set rose from less than a million to 44 million.
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.
People very often debate whether technology is good or bad. Many people believe that technology can only cause harm to their lives and society, while many others strongly defend the technologies which have made their lives much more leisurely and enriching than it could have been several hundred years ago. In my opinion, both of these views are correct to an extent, but I also believe that what should be examined is not whether technology in its self is good or bad, but rather how we as humans use it.For decades now, television has been accused of contributing to the dissolution of the American family and the destruction of the minds of those who watch it. However, although the TV has been involved in this, the problem roots not with
What do we really mean by television? The way we watch television has drastically changed over the last fifteen years due to new technologies such as digital television and services providing on-demand access. These drastic changes have had a huge effect on viewers and have “allowed online streaming platforms to dominate and revolutionize the way the audience consumes” (Aliloupour) media, ultimately allowing the viewer to be in total control of how, when and where they want their content. The idea of only being able to watch television on a television set is now a thing of the past. Due to technology, the audience now has a vast variety of options on how they can access content. By using scholarly articles, research in new media and Internet sites I will be analyzing current television and where the future of television will be heading.
One illustrious instrument that advanced media configuration is Farnsworth’s ambitious background. Philo Farnsworth, innovator at heart, was born August 19, 1906 in Beaver, Utah. Young Farnsworth grew up on a farmhouse in Rigby, Idaho. While tending to daily agricultural responsibilities on the farm, Farnsworth fantasized about conveying images through electrical power. “He said he had realized seven years earlier, while plowing a field on his family 's farm, that an image could be scanned onto a picture tube row by row” ("Elma Gardner Farnsworth, 98; Helped Husband Develop TV," 2006). Likewise, Farnsworth created electrical improvements to household appliances which became a favored pastime. According to Godfrey (2004), “By age 12, Philo was repairing the electric machinery around the