Essays Tagged: "television programs"
Consumer Appeal
CONSUMER APPEALAdvertisers of today have strategically combined commercials and television shows in order to sell products. Gloria Steinem discusses a similar idea in her article, ... magazines, are complementary to the articles around them. In the same manner, so are commercials to television programs. They are both aimed at the same groups or types of people, such as sex, age, ge ... a majority of the older crowds watching the program.According to Gloria Steinem, the target of the television show will be the same as that of the commercials. This proved to be true with 'Profiler' ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing
27 years of 60 minutes
ng current events and happenings around the world. A considerable factor for this occurrence is the television program 60 Minutes which debuted on the air in September of 1968. Many other television n ... ek on various stations, all of whichwere sparked by the inception of 60 Minutes. All of the tabloid television programs being shown today are also a result of 60 Minutes and its bold, gutsy, 'gotcha' ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media
How the media, including TV, music and video games influences children in a negavtive way
entertainment that is full ofviolence. The average child spends three to five hours a day watching television. Listeningto music and playing video games are also favorite pastimes of children. Many p ... en play games, through imitating their favorite super heroes.Thirty years ago, not every home had a television. They were considered a luxurythat only the rich could afford. Now, many households have ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media
National Identity in Australia as presented by television broadcast television.
Using examples from your own observations of television programs discuss Barker's contention that"National Identity is a form of imaginative ... as entities that exist as symbols and discourses (and rituals) and within the context of Australian television these discursive and symbolic elements are bound to the dominant ideologies of Australian ... It is important to consider these discourses in this debate about Australian culture, identity and television because television is the major communicative device for disseminating such cultural repr ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media
This essay explores the effect that television (as a new media form) has on culture.
nd events by electromagnetic radiation' (Oxford, 1992:111) or as it's more commonly referred to as 'television', is the most widely used mass media form in Australia and in the world. Television is on ... % of homes had T.V sets'. (Thompson, 1997: 28,41) Today, about '99% of Australians own at least one television set and, on average, they spend over 20 hours a week...watching television programs' (Cun ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
Black and minority groups in the media.
groups representing various minorities, for the way ethnic groups have been portrayed in films and television programs. Although considerable progress has been made in the fight against unfair and un ... ethnic groups don't like the negative stereotyping and simplistic portrayal of their communities on television. It all too often seems characters from minority ethnic groups are included in programmes ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media
Palestinian Refugee Conflict.
A controversial topic that seems to arise in daily television programs, forms of literature, and even conversation is the Palestinian refugee conflict. ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community
Critique on an example of public relation: Homepage of iTV.
end of 1997. Citizens will be able to plump themselves on the couch, press a few buttons and order television programs, movies, video games and other content via high-speed telephone lines, delivered ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Marketing
Composition I short paper on Police Brutality with works cited.
ehavior? The Rodney King incident is not representative of most police officers around the country. Television shows, newscasts, and written media exacerbate the problem when they do not focus on the ... on the criminal as the root of the problem. "[C]urrent images of the police are drawn largely from television programs bearing little resemblance to reality" (Delattre 29). Police brutality is a matt ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Equal Treating.
eaves and for hours on a busy intersection leads police on a chase.B. The chase interrupts hours of television programs and was being watchedWorldwide.1. Ninety- five million viewers daily2. Number on ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
The Effect of Violent Online Games on Teenagers in Hong Kong.
e on this topic trying to answer this question. Contributing factors to the problem include violent television programs, movies, comics and online video games [Chilton: 1999]. A recent research done b ... ffected by violent content will also vary from different people. Some experts who track violence in television programming, such as George Gerbner of Temple University, define violence as the act (or ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
Violence in Television and Magazines
Many people are concerned about the violence shown in television programs today. The National Television of Violence Study was conducted in 1996 and again ... as done many parents took steps in order to prevent their children form viewing violence and sex on television by installing boxes which are used to lock out certain programs or channels or using the ... ed to lock out certain programs or channels or using the parental control feature provided on their television. In 1999 the White House issued a press release that announced the Network Anti-Violence ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
The Impact that Violence on Television has on Children
The Impact Violence That Television Has on Children Violence on television has a negative effect on the well being of ... n. These little lives are impacted in several significant ways. Children cannot distinguish between television and "the real world" and this makes them more susceptible to the violence they see on tel ... employed so as to violate, damage or abuse, violence comes in many forms and can be viewed in many television programs which children often watch unsupervised. Children spend many hours watchi ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters
Using computer technology in political ways.
am notinterested in politics, but since movie actor isrunning for the governor, I became interested.Television programs did not provide enough informationabout Schwarzenegger. I wanted to know about h ... nected me to the world of politics. Theinternet certainly provides every details wherenewspaper and television do not. Also, people areallowed to share their opinions in an openenvironment. Moreover, ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
Does violence on television translate into violence on the street and in the home?
Many movies, as well as fiction and nonfiction television programs, are saturated with violence. According to psychodynamics theory, movie and tele ... theorists argue that by providing numerous aggressive models - including many who are reinforced - television violence is more likely to increase viewers' aggressive behavior than to reduce it.Headli ... learly illustrate social learning effects. Still, hundreds of millions of people are entertained by television violence. Questions about the effects of television violence have existed since the earli ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
Television is for people with room temperature IQ
Nowadays, television has a big influence on our life. Almost everyone has at least one television set at home. ... e existing without it, because it appears to them as a first need. There are also people who regard television as an easy joy for brainless public. As far as I am concerned television is for those who ... far as I am concerned television is for those who can profit from it.Firstly and most importantly, television is an immense resource of information on several subjects. To be precise, I find in telev ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
Sputnik
ural satellite completes one orbit a month.Present day communications satellites transmit radio and television programs to locations around the world.Sputnik was an unmanned Soviet satellite that orbi ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Astronomy
Liberate Technology and iTV
out today, it is not suprizing to learn that LiberateTechnology has come up with a way to integrate television and the internet. The product that will behitting the market in the near future is called ... ill behitting the market in the near future is called iTV, which is an abbreviation for Interactive television.People will be able to plump themselves on the couch, press a few buttons and order telev ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
Television-Good and Bad
I think that television should be blamed for having harmful effects on children. It is the parent?s job to superv ... ful effects on children. It is the parent?s job to supervise their children while they are watching television. Television programs that have sexual contents, cursing, and violence may influence child ... , murders, and other bad things that are committed in this world are due to things that are seen on television. Many parents do not realize the effect that many television programs have on children. I ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
Discuss the issues surrounding the attempts to control the content of popular music
read, or see or do. Censorship can affect books, newspapers, magazines, motion pictures, radio and television programs, and speeches. Most of the early problems with the censorship of music came abou ... et officials and notable businessman, the PMRC had support from 700 Club minister Pat Robertson and television host Sheila Walsh. Its through this group of people today we see black and white stickers ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies