How has TV influenced society?
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Read Marshall McLuhan\n\nEvery extension of mankind, especially technological extensions, have the effect of amputating or modifying some other extension. An example of an amputation would be the loss of archery skills with the development of gunpowder and firearms. The need to be accurate with the new technology of guns made the continued practice of archery obsolete. The extension of a technology like the automobile "amputates" the need for a highly developed walking culture, which in turn causes cities and countries to develop in different ways. The telephone extends the voice, but also amputates the art of penmanship gained through regular correspondence. These are a few examples, and almost everything we can think of is subject to similar observations.
273093
Absolutely, there was a time before "tv" and "AC" that families used set on front porches on summer evenings and conversed with neighbors as they "walked" pass.\nToday with cell phones in hand, we don’t even have time or social space to speak to them, even if we were still on our porches.\nAlmost every home has the living room arranged around the tv  so as to discourage conversation and fix attention on the tv. \nTV dinners, tv trays, under counter tv's most of us don't have very much practice at social interaction.\nElectronic games, tv and computers have replaced outside playing for our children.. Most of us don't know any of our neighbors beyond the one next door.\nChanges in almost every area of social interaction has reduced the need to know and care about those we live around..\nEven our jobs are no longer lifetime careers but we change as technology does.\nWe are more mobile. We no longer stay in one community all our lives but make several changes during our adult lives. \nBusing has ended community schools etc   etc   etc.\nSo many changes based on technology that polite social interaction of yester year is gone forever.
628228
Media doesn't effect the Governement.  Government effects media.   Media exlusivly represents private interest and thusly only reflects values and ideas of a handful of individuals.
354094
Television is an escape from life. It should not be compared to real life, because if you could, nobody would watch television when they could go out and do stuff they see on tv.
332930
People sin more these days. Watching tv and other non important stuff is distracting us from the important issues were facing these days. No one cares if someone curses on tv no more if it was back then everyone would go crazy.
210612
I was addicted to TV until I got to college and had to go cold turkey when I lived in a dorm longtime ago. \n\nI found there was much more time to study, read for pelasure, socialize, participate in community and political activities, do sports, etc. \n\nI do watch TV now, but only very selectively. Most TV is junk.
1135555
Society is based on established norms, which may or may not be based on fact, religion, faith, or superstition.  Science challenges our belief systems and makes people examine the workings of society.  Sometimes society wins out and science and technology is set back hundreds of years.  In the United States, with our relatively young culture, we have embraced technology to the point that our social lives are changing at a rapid pace, and norms are changing on a daily basis.
984528
The media and marketing glorify it, as do movies, music, and the general entertainment industry. It is portrayed as the way to be wanted, glamorous, rich and happy. The downside is rarely shown. Society will have to change as a whole, including individual personalities, for this not to be 'in demand.' I agree with you.
220604
Of course ...they can....TV is a very strong medium of communication as it involves audio and video conterparts....channels such as discovery ..or national geograpic..or even history chnnel can do quiet a good to thm as compared to a teacher teaching in a school..but care should be taken as thr is too much of negative exposure eg: sex, violence etc...\nBut TV has more of pros rather than cons...so it is definately a impactful medium of learning...
357892
Television is a social media, where folks could sit around, watch and talk about what they saw. Or they could watch TV alone. Or a show could be water cooler talk. For example, someone could talk to a worker at the same job about last night's TV sitcom.
1149073
I believe that casual sex is definitely on the rise.  I'm sure myspace and other networking sites have contributed(how much, I can't say).  I would say that television and movies have had a greater effect on it than anything.  The fact that movies and TV shows glorify having "casual sex" would lend me to believe that it is definitely leading our society in that direction.
769553
I believe the media has corrupted the society we live in, because its giving us all negitve things, that's why I gave up watching TV so much, because its all about money, and how to get it and dishing out garbage that they are doing now is only feeding that monster.
720424
NO!!!! Talk shows make society more aware of certain situations that most people ignore in ever day living. Nobody likes to think that certain things could happen to them. But in reality the people that come on talk shows makes us aware that it does happen and in fact could happen or even be happening to you. Its just like a teaching hospital you may feel exploited by going in a hospital and the doctors using your condition to learn more facts or using you to make a study but you have to remember that somebody was used before you and will be used after you to find different cures. Talk shows is nothing more than a learning experience. It helps give you ideas on how to handle certain situations should they arise in your life.
865039
It brainwashes people!  I mean, why do you think they call it "programming"?!?  The corporations use television to crank out their propaganda which promotes the shallow materialism, run-away consumerism, and the need for instant gratification that already pervades our society.  And most of the "entertainment" on TV is merely brain-candy, laced with subtle messages, designed to provoke as little thought as possible.  It's sole purpose is to distract the sheep; to give them some sort of mind-numbing entertainment they can use to "tune out" so they don't pay attention to what's really going on!  Sad, eh?\nKILL YOUR TELEVISION!
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Not much ... we are slaves to television. We crowd around it (or even worse, each turn on TVs in our own rooms) to see the latest Law & Order: SVU or sport event.\nImagine, if we had no TVs, we would spend time together as families, and go out and exercise, and sit around the dinner table. We would learn how to TALK to one another. *SIGH*
1066271
Numbers\nHouse\nBones\nCSI\nCold Case\n\nSo many people watch these shows! They are not in the exact order, but they draw in about over a few million viewers every night!
728852
This is an interesting article, though i would agree it really didn't get into the issue as much as it could have.Life has changed for our young people, but ultimately, parents allow the t.v shows that children watch, if you don't like a show turn it off. My children are not allowed to watch t.v after 8.30 pm when all the shows that are unsuitable for their age start.Parents allow the clothes that are in a pre teens wardrobe, don't buy something if you think it is age unsuitable. parents also allow the music they listen to, offer other choices, if you do not like the choices they want to make.Parents have to be responsible for what is going on in a pre teens life, if you don't like the influences of their school , change schools, encourage them to go to activities they are good at, and make friends with similar interests away from their school friends. To influence your children's life is a full time and often repetitive job, but well worth all the effort in the end, when they become responsible, like able, mature adults. I home school, but whether you home school or not, you have the choice to influence your children positively.