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Impact of the Media

Impact of the Media. TV. 1. Why do you watch TV? 2. How much TV do you watch a day? A week? A year? I watch approximately 13 hours per week > that’s 676 hours per year which is 28 days. Pathetic – I know  3. What are viable alternatives to watching TV?. Media & Babies.

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Impact of the Media

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  1. Impact of the Media

  2. TV • 1. Why do you watch TV? • 2. How much TV do you watch a day? A week? A year? • I watch approximately 13 hours per week > that’s 676 hours per year which is 28 days. Pathetic – I know  • 3. What are viable alternatives to watching TV?

  3. Media & Babies • 4. What do you think is an appropriate age for children to begin watching TV? • 5. At what age – if any – should children have their own TVs? • Two view points on infants/toddlers & TV: • No TV under age 2 • “Mozart effect” stimulates brain development • http://www.babycenter.com/2_is-it-okay-for-a-baby-or-toddler-to-watch-tv_10367148.bc

  4. TV & Children • What are popular TV shows for children? • Most 10-11 year olds are addicted to TV • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLOxCHSefzg • 6. How does this addiction affect our lives overall? • In the last 12 years of teaching, technological “advances” in video, hand-held Gameboys, cable TV, & video/computer games have enveloped my students’ lives with such an intensity that I have no alternative but to incorporate media within the curriculum

  5. Statistics According to A.C. Nielsen Inc., children watch an average of 24-28 hours of TV per week. Avg. 5 year old will have spent 5,000 hours in front of the TV before kindergarten (more time than s/he will spend in conversation with her/his parents for the rest of their lives; longer than it takes to get a college degree) Continued 65% of 3rd, 4th & 5th graders have TVs in their bedroom ½ of those have cable TV Statistics

  6. Media Concerns • Major concerns include: • Violence • Sexual explicitness • Equating happiness to hyper-consumerism devoid of any concern for ecological or social consequences • 7. Which of these do you think is the biggest concern? Why?

  7. Media & Violence • Rate how comfortable you feel seeing the following content in news & entertainment on a scale of 1 – 5 (1 being it doesn’t bother you at all; 5 being you can’t watch or have to turn it off) • A person injured or killed by gun • A person injured or killed by knife • Persons engaged in hand-to-hand combat • An alien or imaginary creature killed • A plastic human figurine destroyed

  8. Questions continued • 8. In your opinion, members of which gender likely feel more comfortable with violence in general? • a. What about “concrete” violence? • b. Are one or both genders likely to feel significantly more comfortable with “abstract” than “concrete” violence?

  9. Questions continued • 11. Are you more comfortable with one gender as the perpetrator, & as the victim of violence than the other? If so, which one? • Does it depend on the crime? • 12. Are people more comfortable with violence in video games than in the news? • http://katiecouric.com/videos/video-games-violent-crimes/

  10. Consider • Think of various cartoons, sit-coms, sporting events (WWF) • How are problems solved? • Who does most of the talking? • What race, gender & age are the characters in shows & commercials? • How many use put-downs • How many use violence? • What is the attitude toward the earth/environment?

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