Linda Evangelista
Honeymooners
Jack Benney
I love Lucy
Walter Cronkite
Dick Van Dyke Show
JFK Assassination
Murphy Brown
Seinfield
Inside Columbine
Articles to Write about:
June 27
Williams, Television and Society
- TV industry makes power
- Networks make messages and then to audiences
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Lull, Social Issues and Television
Lull's article shows that television is a powerful resource for human communication, especially in family situations. Lull, like Lesser says television is a form of social learning. He says TV's stories and themes employed by views may facilitate conversation. Television generates an alternate reality.
Fiske,
- TV is not reality, but it reproduces the dominant sense of reality. Realism reproduces and makes sense of reality by ensuring that all links and relationships between its elements are clear and logical. Realism admits fantasy, Wonderwoman. It works by making everything appear realistic.
June 29
Flitterman, The Real Soap Operas: TV Commercials
Stam, Television and its Spectator
In the Stam article he tell how we as viewers receive pleasure from watching television, no matter how bad the news is. Television grants the spectator the illusory ubiquity of the all-perceiving subject. Television allows us to share the literal time of persons who are elsewhere. He also says we oversee the world from a sheltered position. Television manufactures its own audience as well as the news.
Lesser, Children and Television
In Lesser's article he argues that television holds enormous and unique potential as an educational tool. He argues television functions as a sanctuary, it offers kindness, self-control, and affection. Television teaches kids about life. He also states that television can show children that there are other people out there going about their lives.
July 6
Graber, Processing the News: How People Tame the Information Tide
People do a good job in taming the in...