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2. We might often findourselves more engaged,more entertained,
and evenmore emotionally touchedby what we watch ontelevision than
by our ownexperience in real life. 3. ContentThe Cultural
Influences of Television 1. Life According to TV by HarryWaters 2.
Television Addiction Is No MereMetaphor by Robert Kubey andMihaly
Csikszentmihalyi 3. Watching TV Makes You Smarterby Steven Johnson
4. Gin, Television, and Social Surplusby Clay Shirky 4. 1. Life
According to TV by HarryWatersHow the world oftelevision
directlyinfluences how peoplesee the real worldaround
them.GeorgeGerbnersstudy 5. Gerbners work is uniquelyimportantOther
studies Gerbners study Children-and-violencearguments Turning lens
on TVshidden victims: women,the elderly, blacks, blue-collar
workers and othergroups. 6. Overview of Gerbners study Time Members
Form of studying 15 years 4 people: GeorgeGerbner and threeother
assistants fromPenns AnenbergSchool ofCommunications Multiple-
choicequestionaires Videotaping andanalyzing 1,600 prime-time
programsinvolving more than15,000 characters 7.
GERBNERSSTUDYAGESEXRACEMASSENTERTAINMENTCRIMEWORKHEALTH 8. SEX TV
put social stereotype on women thatthey are portrayed as weak and
passiveroles. >>> Reinforcing stereotypical attitudesand
increase sexism. 9. AGE TV has shown contrast images about theold
people and it is a skewed perspectiveof reality. (the elderly
population issmaller than it really is) 10. RACE The problem with
the mediums treatmentof blacks is more one of image than
ofvisibility. >>>Through TV, the discrimination to
theblacks is explicitly implied. 11. WORK On TV:The proportion of
Americans employedas physicians, lawyers, athletes, andentertainers
is high.6-10% characters on TV hold blue-collaror service jobs but
in fact it is 60% ofthe population. >>> The skewed
division of laborcause danger for the youth. 12. HEALTH The viewers
eat more, drink more, exerciseless >>> unhealthy TV has
shown many outstanding medicalbreakthrough >>> the viewers
possess analmost mystical faith in the curative powersof medical
science >>> They bypass the risk of illness whichleads to
many problems for both doctorsand patients. 13. CRIME Other studies
have argued that TV andcrime have impacts on each other (TVmakes
the increasing of proportion ofcrime) Gerbners study put a new view
aboutcrime arguments: fear of victimization. Ex: Pht giy cnh gic
14. In conclusion Gerbners samples of heavyviewers cut across all
ages,incomes, education levels andethnic backgrounds and
everycategory displayed the sametube-induced misconceptions ofthe
world outside. 15. MASS ENTERTAINMENT There are also contradictory
ideas toGerbners study that TV ought not to capturethe real images
of real life and put on thescreen because there is no longer
interestingthing attracting people to watch TV. Gerbner at least
agrees with this point. Butwhat fascinates him about TV is It is
amedium that can bring to people things theyotherwise would not
select. He means that people have ability to carefullychoose a book
or magazine or a movie butthey just turn on the set and watch by
theclock rather than for a specific show. 16. CONCLUSION Things on
TV are mere a part of a realimage and even skewed,
sometimesover/underrepresented. >>> The influences of TV
on viewersare dangerous. But, we all have ability to give anactive
role in steering the overalldirection of television instead of
beingobliged to passively accept whateverthe networks offer. 17. 2.
Television Addiction Is No MereMetaphor by Robert Kubey andMihaly
Csikszentmihalyi 18. Definition of AddictionA disorder
characterized by criteria thatinclude: Spending a great deal of
time using asubstance Using it more often than one intends Thinking
about reducing or makingunsuccessful efforts to reduce use. Giving
up important social, family, oroccupational activities to use it
Reporting withdraw symptoms when onestops using it. 19. TV
Addiction? 20. A body at REST tends to be atREST Many researchers
using the artificialcondition of the lab to test peoplewatching
television. (EEG) As opposed to that, the authors of thisarticles
track behavior and emotion inthe normal course of life (ESM)
Process: p.149 21. Results Watching TV makes people feel allrelaxed
and passive. However, when TV is turned off:- Relaxation ends-
Feeling of passivity and loweredalertness continue.- After watching
TV, peoples moods areabout the same or worse than
before.>>> Watching TV has absorbed or suckedout their
energy, leaving themdepleted/exhausted. 22. Grabbing Your Attention
How does TV grab your attention?>>> By orienting response
= Phn xc nh hngResearchers carried out manyexperiments to verify
some formalfeatures of TV likecuts, edits, zooms, pans,
suddennoiseswhether they have anyinfluence to activate the
orientingresponse 23. What makes TV haveattraction? In conclusion,
we may get TVaddictive or simply watch TV justbecause the natural
attraction to TVssound and light. This also explainshow deeply
rooted the orientingresponse is. 24. TV Is Part of Them What will
happen if heavy viewers donot watch TV? They reported feeling more
anxiousand less happy than light viewers doin unstructured
situations, such asdoing nothing, daydreaming, orwaiting in the
line. The differencewidens when the viewer is alone. 25. Conclusion
Even though TV does seem to meetthe criteria for substance
dependence,not all researchers would go so far tocall TV addictive.
26. Without TV Nearly 40 years ago, Gary A. Steiner ofthe
University of Chicago collectedfascinating individual accounts of
familieswhose set had broken:- The family walked around like
chickenwithout a head.- It was terrible. We did nothing myhusband
and I talked.- Screamed constantly. Children botheredme, and my
nerve was on edge. Tried tointerest them in game, but impossible.
TVis part of them. 27. 3. Watching TV Makes You Smarterby Steven
Johnson 28. The Sleeper Curve What is The sleeper curve? The
culture is getting more cognitivelydemanding, not less. To make
sense of aprogram/show on TV nowadays, you have tointegrate far
more information than you wouldhave a few decades ago. >>>
It makes your brain work more constantly That is called the Sleeper
Curve: the mostdebased forms of mass diversion videogames and
violent television dramas juvenilesitcoms turn out to be the
nutritional afterall. 29. Televised Intelligence Televised
intelligence is on the rise.This growing complexity involves
threeelements:- Multiple threading- Flashing arrows- Social
networks 30. Multiple threading Few decades ago: The earlier
showsfollow an outline of the narrativethreads which is just a
single line. >>> The structure is simple following asingle
narrative thread. 31. Latter shows There are more narrative
threads, theyweaves together. The narrative threads of
previousepisodes have also recalled in thelatter ones. Leaving one
or two threads open atthe end of one episode. 32. The on-screen
developments (3charts) The shows on TV are more complexday by day
which is a way to train foraudience. At the first time, it is
hardfor audience to engage with suchcomplexity. However, they
soonhappily embrace that because theyhave trained by two decades of
multi-thread dramas. 33. The Case for Confusion Flashing
arrows:They reduce the amount of analyticwork you need to do to
make sense ofa story. All you have to do is follow thearrows. 34.
Conversations on TV To understand a conversation, itrequires 2
modes of information:- Texture: all the long and
complicatedintroduction provided to convince theviewer that they
are watching ActualDoctors at Work- Substance: the material planted
amidthe background texture that the viewerneeds make sense of the
plot.>>> So complicated. 35. The simplest way On TV, you
may catch someconversations with the high-speedtracking shots that
the audiencescould hardly to follow theproblem/story. Ex: A talk
using medical jargon. >>> Using flashing arrows is
thesimplest way for audiences to followand understand any
high-speed/usingjargon conversation. 36. The rewards of smart
culture Because of having such smart TVprograms, parents should
encouragetheir children to watch TV but selectiveones. Learning
from TV is a chance forchildren to develop, and the adultsalso
share with kids instead of forcingthem what to or not to watch. 37.
4. Gin, Television, and SocialSurplus by Clay Shirky Social surplus
= cognitive surplus =nhn thc thng d Where does cognitive surplus
comefrom? 38. GINFREETIMESURPLUSVALUEPUBLIC LIBRARY,MUSEUM, RIGHT
TO VOTE,ETC.COGNITIVESURPLUSCOGNITIVESURPLUSWATCHINGTV 39. How big
is cognitive surplus? If you take Wikipedia as a kind of unit,all
of Wikipedia, the whole project every page, every edit, every
talkpage, every line of code, in everylanguage that Wikipedia
exists in- thatrepresents something like 100 millionshours of human
thought. 40. And television watching? 100 millions hours every
weekend justwatching ads. 200 billions hours every year in the
USalone 2,000 Wikipedia projects a year spentwatching television.
41. Using the time watching television todo another thing is
better. Shirkyemphasized that: Its better to dosomething than to do
nothing. 42. However Watching TV does not mean that youdo nothing.
But knowing how to getmessages from TVs programs is verydifferent
from merely-watching-TV. Watching TV, people like to consume,but
they also like to produce, and theylike to share. 43. CONCLUSION If
we carve out a little bit of thecognitive surplus and deploy it
here,could we make a good thing happen?And the answer is yes. 44.
DISCUSSION 1 Watching a clip. According to you,what do children can
learn from thisclip? Do you think this kind of cartoon hasany
challenge for children tounderstand? Does watching cartoon make
childrensmarter? 45. DISCUSSION 2 What can children do to
makecognitive surplus bigger instead ofwasting their time watching
TV all thetime just for fun? 46. Distinctive features of
childrenspopular culture The popular culture producedfor, by,
and/or about children. Childrens culture is not "innocent" ofadult
political, economic, moral or sexualconcerns. Rather, the creation
of childrens culturerepresents the central arena throughwhich we
construct our fantasies aboutthe future and a battleground
throughwhich we struggle to express competingideological agendas.
47. The use of fantasy in Disneysproducts The use of fantasy in
Disneysproducts like clothes, toys, home anddcor... can be easily
recognized bythe use of characters in Disneyspictures films such as
Mickey &friends, Disney princess, Disneyvillains and so on. 48.
Mickey & friends 49. Disney princess 50. Disney villains 51.
Fantasy is for children Fantasy is an educator by
innovativemeasure. Children absorb stories andthey retain the
messages. They often callout some names of some characters
tocompare a situation. For example, whenparents teach them a lesson
how tobehave to the older, they just say Oh,old like Mr. ABC.
Seeing a battle between good and evil infantasy stories can prepare
children forthe real battle that is constantly waging.
