Television Effect On Society

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Abstract Television today is considered to be the most important and most respected form of transmitting information. The easy accessibility means that it has the largest audience of all forms of media and therefore the greatest impact. Television has the potential to unite communities, provide information to allow positive cultural, social and environmental change, and to create a true global village. It also has the potential to alienate, dissocialize, to promote aggressive and negative behaviors, provide negative and inappropriate role models to our children. Television 3 Televisions effects on society “It sits in the living room—an unpretentious-looking box that has the power to hold individuals in a hypnotic state with their eyes glued to a screen of rapidly moving images. Television colors our attitudes, opinions, values, buying habits, and even our sense of time (“I’ll do my homework during Grey’s Anatomy”; “I’ll go to bed after Parenthood”). It’s a constant companion in our life. Even when people are not actively engaged in watching TV, they report turning it on for companionship (Trouppe 1984)”. “The average American home now has more television sets than people” (USA today 2008). There are many forms of media that we use to communicate but none more than the television. Television can take us to places all over the world, it can educate as well as entertain, additionally it allows us to gain exposure to ideas and circumstances that we don’t experience in our own communities. However, these same shows can also provide a distorted view of reality, which can damage people’s views of the real world, and this can influence how people think and behave. More than anything television, for most people, is an escape from reality in a fantasyland of sitcoms and game shows. Television’s aim is to entertain people, whether that is by educating

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