Now that television is playing a crucial role in elections candidates not only have to sound good but look good too. "because of television's celebrity system, Presidents are losing their distinctiveness as social actors and hence are often judged by standards
Twenge states, “To many older people, it’s funny. But too many younger people the main consumers of the reality shows on, say, MTV it shapes their views of the world” (pg 7). Narcissism is shown often, and without hesitation on reality TV younger viewers are being conditioned by the depiction of narcissism. Slowly, the excess amount of narcissism seems normal. For instance, on “America’s Next Top Model” young viewers wish to be thin, tall, and overall a model, but go about it in the wrong ways.
Some say it has changed for the worst; that it is a bad influence on others choices, whereas others say it still has the same typical concept. They fail to realize that reality television is simply just a documentary of people’s lives. Whether they choose to take each other’s heads off or make love to their best friends’ boyfriend, it will not have a negative effect on people’s life decisions or choices. When people think about Reality TV they begin to picture a group of people arguing and punching each other out simply because that is what reality TV has become today. For some reason the bickering and fighting on these shows tends to attract a large audience.
Taking African American music and making it into rock ‘n’ roll is what Elvis did, helping whites recognize how good their music was but also taking other peoples tunes and making more money off of them. We all have our own opinions on what we really think about Elvis Presley. Once rock ‘n’ roll came out white communities thought it was wrong, after a while it shaped racial attitudes because everybody liked this type of music, having this is common brought both races together. It started all with the youth during that time, they are the ones who followed and enjoyed the music even though it was looked badly upon by their parents. The youth is
That is where the person either thinks that they already look like someone on TV or they believe they don’t need to. Deep down on some level they are envious and it is not their fault. They have been programmed since young that they are supposed to look a certain way because of what they have seen in movies. Women are supposed to be skinny with perfect bodies and the men are supposed to be chiseled and muscular, and that’s not how everyone is. This is the biggest type of persuasion and the most dangerous, the reason I say this because not only do people judge themselves on how they look but they judge everyone else.
April 24, 2012 English 101 Final Draft “The Convict” Even though we see ourselves as a united nation, we continue to fight racial issues every day. Television is extremely influential in this day in age because of its ability to reach viewers almost everywhere. The television show “The Office” is known for being one of the funniest shows on T.V., and episode after episode, the show continues to keep the viewer wanting more. The show is always full of jokes, but during the episode “The Convict”, they take the jokes a little too far, and it can be argued that the episode is racist toward African Americans. The episode starts off with Angela and Kevin trying to figure out where extra money in the budget came from.
“Faking is inevitable in television. In fact, all television is fake, and audiences are happy for it to be so.” With ever increasing competition, television channels have to find different tricks to increase their viewership and to fill up timeslots. “Faking” is one of the most common tricks. I have focused mainly on reality shows, live telecast and news telecast for this discussion. I have excluded soap operas or fiction because fiction can have the liberty to divert from reality.
There is mostly commentary and arguments from the people being filmed. The director could have used more voice-overs to give us more details about the culture. A lot of captioning was used, which drew my attention away from the action that was happening since I had to read the screen to understand what the people were saying. The women showing how dominant they can be, even though their lives are supposed to be based around their husband, are strength of this film. It shows that women have some power.
The reason why people are so crazy for reality television is is because there is that possibility that they could be on it. They "cast" and pick people based on personality or even just random luck, but the fact that there is a possibility is what makes people so obsessed. Reality television has another sociological concept known functionalism. Functionalism is a social paradigm that views society as a system of interdependent parts, or subsystems. This concept argues that the social structure is always trying to maintain social balance among all of the components of society.
It is not merely just a lie, but also a statement with different motives. For example, turn on your television and watch the commercials. Commercials are always claiming that they want you to buy their products because they care about you, or they strongly believe it will work out for you but in reality all they want to do is sell a lot of their products so they can make more money. There are always lies an alternative motive behind what they are saying in the commercials. Also, Men will tell a female anything they want to hear, claiming they like and care about their feelings but in reality all they want is to get in their pants.