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A voice complements the body language of television mediators such as reporters talking to the news anchor.... Bourdon also pointed out the impromptu changes that occur before the viewers' eyes and how the voice of television mediators highlights the liveness of the program by confirming them for the sake of the audience.... Question 2: Why Pay attention, as Sterne urges, to the “physical life of the medium” of television?... The physical “stuff” of television is important, according to Sterne, because it is critical in the way the medium functions or rather in the way “televisual” relationships are organized (504)....
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However, after the popularisation of television, most studios were now making a mere four billion dollars.... In the wake of the country's economic boom, many people could now afford to purchase their own television sets.... 10Therefore, the Attorney general serving at that time gave a notice to the five major studios to appear in court.... This was because there was discovery of the telescope, a cure for arthritis and even new advancements in astronomy....
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Early developments of television began on its first attempts at television date from the discovery that the magnitude of electric currents passing through crystalline selenium could be controlled by the amount of light falling on it.... After this, the development of mechanical methods of television was rapid.... This paper "Overview of Media Specialty" discusses television as the art of seeing at a distance has come to have the more restricted meaning of the practically instantaneous reproduction, for visual observation, distant scenes by electrical methods....
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The theory's application is to study the effect of television programs on the attitude and behaviors of the general American public (Miller, 2005).... The theory does not study any specific element of television but its general influence on its viewers.... It follows therefore, that the influence of television on the American people's behavior and attitude is immense.... To confirm this statement, 13 television commercials in food, car and medication categories were selected during two typical weekdays from major TV network channels, ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC from 4pm to 11pm, and were analyzed on YouTube how men and women were portrayed in them....
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Cultivation theory is a social that scrutinizes the long-term impact of television.... He mainly focused his theory of the content of our TVs and the impact of the content on the growing population of the children and the highly growing population.... It proposes that full television exposure produces a world of ideas and mental content that is similar and biased toward reality as is portrayed in media content.... The main proportion of cultivation theory states that the more time people spend living in the television world the more they are likely to believe in social reality depicted on televisions and therefore tends to leave people of the misperception of what is true in the world....
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This paper "The Study of television Forms and Meanings" discusses television that emerged as a new media phenomenon some 70 years ago and by the 1960s the first television academic researchers had to rely on instruments of already existing fields of study such as film critics and literature studies.... Thus, initially, the concept of genre provided a tool to study television alone; however, in the field of television it underwent a serious transformation throughout its lifetime, yet it occupies a central place in television theories....
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The main focus of the paper "Family Television Viewing is on the Rise" is on the examining what might phenomenon of family television watching indicate in terms of the significance of television for the construction of collective identities, on the construction of collective identities.... Moreover, television viewing increased during 2012 indicating a growing significance of television in the lives of families (Oxcom, 2013).... The second part of the paper analyses the role of television in the construction of collective identities....
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Before assessing the effect of the mass media on language growth, one must initially resolve whether the language of the mass media overwrites a new language compared to conventional modes of communication such as the book.... For instance, radio was a new language when it was introduced to a people amerced into books solely as a source of their information....
The sheer magnitude of information put across by magazines, press, radio, television far exceeds the number of materials conveyed by the school system....
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