Tag Archives: Television
Global Media Wars
Global Media Wars was produced by multimedia reporters from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Their reports are based on monitoring five state-funded international TV channels: Al Jazeera English, CCTV-I, France 24, Press TV and RT. Each channel is given a score card and followed closely
The project was conceived, supervised and edited by Ann Cooper, [...]
Media and Children
From Dr. Dimitri Christakis, a researcher, paediatrician, and parent, this video explores the media’s impact on early childhood development. Delivered at the TEDxRainier 2011 event, the talk focuses on how early TV exposure of certain types and in certain doses can inappropriately stimulate a child’s brain development.
In the video, Dr. Christakis explains that a child’s [...]
Society’s Storyteller: How TV Creates the Myths by which we Live
Storytelling is the great process that makes us recognizably human. A story is an attempt to make the invisible visible — it has to do with relationships, with intellectual connections. We have to have some device to make the visible, dramatic, revealing and embodied in human beings whose characteristics we know and whose actions we [...]
Learning from Television Fiction. The Reception and Socialization Effects from Watching «Loving in Troubled Times»
Television fiction is often understood as a cultural product whose aim is entertainment and escapism. However, its functions are not merely commercial. In fact, this article aims to improve understanding of the socializing and educational effects of television’s fictional messages. It also reflects on the active role of the audience in the process of reception, [...]
People with Intellectual Disability and ICTs
New technologies have dramatically changed our daily lives and the way we are connected to other people. Television, cellular telephony and the Internet have opened up new opportunities in communication, leisure and training, and yet barriers prevent certain social groups from accessing these new technologies. People with intellectual disability (ID), for instance, are often «invisible» [...]
Emotions Elicited by Television Violence
The effects of TV violence have been widely studied from an experimental perspective, which, to a certain extent, neglects the interaction between broadcaster and recipient. This study proposes a complementary approach, which takes into account viewers’ interpretation and construction of TV messages. Social dimensions influencing emotional experiences to TV violence will be identified and analyzed, [...]
The Intervention of TV in the Chilean Earthquake
This paper has two purposes: one conceptual and the other practical. On a conceptual level, it outlines a model for understanding how TV operates as a social mediator in the event of natural disasters, and at the practical level, it recommends measures that can be used to optimize the role of TV and its ideal [...]
New Television Narratives: Entertainment, Telling, Citizenship, Experimental
Broadcasting and industrial television is a trip back to the past, to a space devoid of meaning, and to the boredom resulting from its moral conservatism, lack of creativity, thought and entertainment. But television’s monopoly over public screening is over; now, anyone can be a producer, an audiovisual narrator with his or her own screen. [...]
Television: Seen, Heard and Read by Peruvian Adolescents
This paper analyzes the current relationship between Peruvian teenagers and television. The information accessed from various sources concluded that adolescents are consuming television extensively, especially the poorer within the country. Teens appreciate the cable television as a source of learning, and its variety and ability to relate it with the world. The interest in cartoons, [...]
Bibliometric and Social Network Analysis Applied to Television Dissertations Presented in Spain (1976/2007)
This paper analyses the productive structure in Spanish television research. Data from theses about Spanish television which had been defended in this country over the period 1976/2007 was extracted. Two methodologies are used within this analysis: a bibliometric analysis and Social Network Analysis (SNA). Results show the production of theses by time period, university, these [...]
