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- 2. What is television? Television is an electric broadcast system in which special providers transmit a continuous program of video content to the public or subscribers by way of antenna, cable, or satellite dish, often on multiple channels. (American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition)
- 3. What is Television? A Harmless Pastime? Some Creature Feeding on Your Brain?
- 4. Television is… «…the first truly democratic culture, the first culture available to everyone and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.» (Clive Barnes)
- 5. Television is… “…real. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn't time to protest, 'What nonsense!'.” (Ray Bradbury)
- 6. Television is… «… of great educational value. It teaches you while still really young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) embezzle, (d) shoot, e) poi son, and generally speaking, (f) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school.» (George Mikes)
- 7. Television is… «…is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.» (T.S. Elliot)
- 8. MASS COMMUNICATION MEDIA Print (books, pamphlets, newspapers, magazines, etc.) from the late 15th century Recordings (gramophone records, magnetic tapes, cassettes, cartridges, CDs, DVDs) from the late 19th century Cinema from about 1900 Radio from about 1910 Television from about 1950 Internet from about 1990 Mobile phones from about 2000
- 9. Television: Prime medium for, molding public opinion sharing morality and dispersing the mores Communicates less didactically and more effectively than other media, Has a unique style and flow of content,
- 10. Television seemingly… Delivers News/Information Gives Entertainment Provides Education
- 11. Television actually… Conveys thoughts&ideas Reaffirms social conventions Communicates subtle meanings Presents the version of reality that the dominant ideology represents as the norm
- 12. What do we watch on TV? Movies Reality Shows TV Series News Documentaries Cartoons Commercials
- 13. Survivor
- 14. «Survivor» Communicates That… Only the fittest of the fittest shall survive! Homo Homini Lupus : Man is a wolf to (fellow) man People are competitive, violent, fundamentally self-interested. People aspire to power usually at the expense of others.
- 15. «Television is daily revulsion!» (Heiner Müller)
- 16. THANK YOU! Feryal ÇİÇEK BİLGİN Marmara University / ELT Oral Communications
Editor's Notes
- All these writers and thinkers somehow suggest that there is something seriously wrong with TV. But what is it? We’ll get to that question later. Let’s continue with exploring what television is in a cultural context. Television is one of the «seven mass media», significantly the most featured of all. And, despite changing industrial practises it somehow remains a ubiquitos media form and technology widely owned and used in many industrilized nations. Why is so?
- Television has been the main medium for molding public opinion since the 1950s the general ways of being and acting throughout a culture, Which enables the mores and ideas to be “absorbed without conscious understanding."
- Dominant ideology, the one of western capitalist societies, represents. That is how we conclude that poverty and social class inequality are natural and inevitable, or how we all accept paternalistic principles and practices without much questioning.
- Yet, still the largest amount of time devoted to one single activity each day by citizens of developed countries is given to watching the television. Well it seems whatever we watch on TV is designed in a way to manupilate our subconcious. I’ll further explain it to you with an example. Let’s take this highly popular reality Show «Survivor»
- What do you see when you look at these pictures? Young testosteron-charged, virile men with their well-built bodies? healthy, energetic, beautiful human beings everywhere?… It is like they are the survivors of an actual disaster and now they are expected to survive the post-disaster conditions. The Show is highly appealing to some just because the «survivors» do live in a complete state of nature. And if you want to survive in the nature, you have got to be ,the fittest of the fittest, competitive, violent, fundementally self-interested, you must even aspire to power at the expense of others.
- It is suggested that these traits are products of our biology, not of the cultural and historical situation we live in despite lack of scientific evidence to prove it. For instance, one may see a homeless man sleeping on the sidewalk and assume he is a failure at life because of his genes, or say that women are incapable of being serious scientists because of their sex, or that all men must harbor aggression because of their biology.
- I guess now we have found an answer to the initial question, I mean, «What is wrong with TV*» therefore I can finish my presentation. And I’d like to end it with a quote from a German playwright Heiner Müller. He writes in his brillant work called The HamletMachine that «television is daily revulsion!» . This one is my favourite as it is quite expressive and it says a lot with just a few words.