... Objectives The research objective is to understand the differences between Australian and International (live in Australia) Generation Y on media and entertainment choices. Results There are similarities between the groups of local and International Generation Y on media and entertainment choices. Internet is the primary media choice for both local and International. There were no significant differences on what websites the two groups visit. Local Generation Y tend to watch their favourite shows mainly from TV, they spend more time on watching TV than International. While International tend to watch the favourite shows from DVD and the Internet other than only from TV. There were no significant differences in cinema, computer games, radio and digital media usages between the two groups. English is the main language for both of the groups when entertaining. Conclusions There are no major differences between the two groups regarding the way they use a number of media types. English is the...
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...Speaker, honorable opponents and distinguished judges. The resolution before the house today is be it resolved that reality TV shows reflects real life. First let me list a few reality TV shows you guys may watch at home- Dragons Den, Jersey Shore, Survivor and Big Brother. Now, what do all these shows have in common besides all being reality TV shows? They all have normal everyday people, real reactions and the people who watch these shows can relate to them. Yes some people may argue that some shows are over-done and the actor’s reactions are fake but the truth behind the matter is that everybody has a different opinion on what over-doing a reaction is. If reality shows didn’t reflect our lives, then nobody would watch the shows. We watch reality shows because they are entertaining, and they put people like us in situations where their actions are being watched 24/7. If you were offered a role in a reality TV show such as Big Brother, at first you’d be careful of what actions you make on camera knowing the world is watching. But how long can you really keep acting fake? The real you, the real reactions when you are put in a hard situation will come out. This is why reality shows such as Big Brother reflect real life because it’s based on real reactions of normal people like you and I. The opposition may argue that the editing if what makes reality TV look fake but remember that the camera doesn't lie. No matter how much editing is done to compress and provide a story line...
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...Television and Children In the last couple of years the growing concern over the effect of television on children has gripped the nation. Studies have shown that today’s shows on television have a negative effect on the social behavior on children, causing them, among other things, to be more hostile toward others, and interact less with others. While in the past, cartoons could have been an easy target by parents and other watchdogs on this issue, these days, other types of shows and programming have been culprits as well. The suggested solutions on how to remedy this stem from parents connecting with their children. As the saying goes, easy to say, but hard to do. In today’s busy world, parents often miss how big a presence television is in their children’s live. According to the University of Michigan Health System, “television viewing among kids is at an eight year high” (Boyse, 2010, para. 6). Children spend an average of 32 hours a week in front of the television, collectively from watching movies, playing videogames, or just watching shows on TV. As their parents get busier with work, children spend more time finding ways to entertain themselves, and the most obvious choice is the TV. Television executives are aware of this, of course, and today many shows are being geared toward babies and toddlers as opposed to past generations, making television the number one teacher in the early lives of these young ones. According to Jerry Odland (2004), “young children are spending...
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...Steven Johnson makes the argument in the articles "Watching TV Makes You Smarter" and "Your Brain on Video Games" that typical bad stereotype associated with TV shows and playing video games are false. Controversially, what is supposed to be "bad" for the younger generation is actually good. In Johnson's article, "Watching TV Makes You Smarter," it says, "...you have to recall a passing remark uttered earlier regarding a character who belongs to a completely different thread." This is referring to the E.R. TV show, and a young girl needs a liver transplant. Her blood type is AB, and a brain dead patient has the blood type AB. The organs were going to be harvested and the transplant could occur. Blood type AB people are known as "universal recipients"...
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...High Involvement Level vi. Low Involvement Level 6. Conclusion 7. Appendices 8. Reference List 1. Executive Summary This report discusses about the impact of Reality TV shows on viewers. Firstly, the theories that apply to the way in which viewers form their perceptions are discussed. Three different types of theories namely selective perception, consumer learning and classical conditioning will be examined and how they relate to the forming of a viewer’s perception of a Reality TV Show. Secondly, the report also discusses how these programs impact the viewer’s purchasing decisions. Information from four industries was used to evaluate and explained the impact of Reality TV on consumer purchases. Lastly, involvement theory was used to evaluate the impact of involvement to the perception of the consumers/viewers. High-level and low-level involvement consumers/viewers are used in deriving to the answers. 1 2. Introduction Reality TV Show has impacted consumer lives in a huge way. Fashion trends, eating habits, purchasing preferences and lifestyles of viewers have all been influenced by Reality TV Shows. Reality TV Shows also affect viewers’ understanding about human relationships (Tom 2013). How these shows alter and affect the types of viewers’ perceptions,...
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...Children who consistently spend more than 4 hours per day watching television are more likely to be overweight. Health experts have long linked excessive TV watching to weight gain. While watching TV, kids are inactive and tend to snack. They're also bombarded with ads that encourage them to eat unhealthy foods. The problem isn't just how long children are watching TV but, what they are watching. According to William H. Deitz, pediatrician and prominent obesity expert at Tufts University School of Medicine, "The easiest way to reduce inactivity is to turn off the TV set. Almost anything else uses more energy than watching TV." Television affects the health of both children and adults. First and foremost, television ads are constantly bombarding us with information about health and nutrition, and unfortunately, most of it’s skewed. Our children are most susceptible to these leading advertisements. For instance, children may have a hard time recognizing fact from fiction when they see an ad that shows thin beautiful people enjoying high calorie, high fat foods and drinks. Roughly two-thirds of the 20,000 TV ads an average child sees each year are for food and most are for unhealthy foods. The majority of children who watch health related commercials believe what the ads say, even if the ads do not give accurate or balanced information. Watching television also affects one’s health by replacing other activities and by slowing the metabolic rate. Television viewing leads...
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...culture. To add in, consumer attitudes toward product placement may also vary depending on the fundamental cultural orientations and values of a particular society. In general, there are abundant cross-cultural comparisons of advertising and promotion but little is known regarding how consumers from different cultures perceive and process product placement in their mind. Other than that, there has also been very limited knowledge on how and to what extent the medium of placement affects perceptions of the tactic. The main purpose of this research is to examine: i. US and Korean college student consumers’ attitudes towards product placements in three different media (films, TV shows, and songs). ii. product placement acceptability based on media genre and product type. Based on the above purpose, researchers have developed five research questions involve in this study. There are: i. What similarities and differences exist in the influence/attention of product placement between the USA and Korea across media? ii. What similarities and differences exist in...
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...has turned into the main type of leisure. There, Ray Bradbury, shows us that leisure can be destructive to happiness because it hypnotizes people by making them forget about real life, and therefore prevents them from thinking or talking. All are so obsessed with TV that they do not have time to look around them and are not interested in real life. Leisure hypnotizes one so he places television above reality. This means that TV has obsessed people so much that they do not pay attention to their surroundings. An example is the scene from the novel where Ms Phelps is talking about what would happen if her husband passes away.” He said if I get killed off, you just go right ahead and don’t cry, but get married again, and don’t think of me.’ ‘That reminds me’, said Mildred. ’Did you see the 5-minute romance last night in your wall? Well it was about this woman who…” (103).This clearly shows what Mildred’s looks of life are. While her friend is talking for a possibility for her man to die, Mildred is “hypnotized” by TV and is thinking only about a soap opera she’d watched the previous night. The show is more important for her than the life of other lady. Thus, leisure in this world has greater importance than real life. Watching TV prevents one from talking. People are watching so much TV that they have forgotten the pleasure from speaking or even just pondering peacefully. A situation where Montag has turned off the TV for the friends of Mildred shows what people think about the...
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...CONTENT | Good/Excellent (45-39) | Fair/Competent (38-31) | Deficient (30-0) | Development(CCLO # 2)37/45pts | * Major points are stated clearly and are well-supported * Content is persuasive and comprehensive * Content and purpose of the writing is clear * Thesis has a strong claim. The audience is clear and appropriate for the topic * Supportive information (if required) is strong and addresses writing focus | * Major points are addressed but clarity or support is limited * Content is somewhat persuasive or comprehensive * Content is inconsistent (lack of clear purpose and /or clarity) * Thesis could be stronger * Supportive information (if required) needs strengthening or does not address writing concepts | * Major points are unclear and/or insufficiently supported * Content is missing essentials * Content has unsatisfactory purpose, focus, and clarity * Supportive information (if required) is missing | Organization and Structure(CCLO #1)33/45pts | * Writing is well-structured, clear, and easy to follow * Introduction compelling forecasts the topic and thesis * Each paragraph is unified and has a clear central idea * Transitional wording is present throughout the writing * Conclusion is a logical end to the writing | * Adequately organized with some areas difficult to follow * Introduction needs to provide a stronger gateway into the writing * Some paragraphs lack unity * Better transitions are needed to provide...
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...limits of when to stop. I do not think alcohol was put here as a drug; I think that the effect of it on people is what made alcohol considered as a drug. There are different effects of alcohol, some are losing/ gaining weight, losing appetite, and even losing people lives. People are put into situation where they can abuse alcohol because of the fact that it is a legal drug. Even though people have to wait until they are 21 years old to buy alcohol there are all different types of ways to get around that. This is where the abuse comes in because teens are sometimes uneducated on the effects of alcohol, so they tend to drink it because they see someone they admire that is older that drinks it. This makes them think it is okay because it is also legal. Yes, I do believe that there should be a lot more control placed on the sale of alcohol because it is so easy to get other people to buy alcohol for minors. Do TV shows and films glorify drug usage and encourage youths to enter the drug trade? Should all images on TV of drugs and...
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...University of Leiden Netherlands, a two part survey was conducted in a three year stint. The survey was to establish to show the effects of television and a child’s reduction of his or her comprehension level. The survey was conducted in two parts, the first part was to show if the amount of time the children spent watching television would hinder their comprehension and the second part is to show what programs where watched when the children did watch television. The surprising thing was from both questions being answered, the one that made the most impact on the children was the time the children actually spent watching TV. Playing video games or doing anything in front of the television is time away from socializing with peers and family. Television and the Effects on a Childs reading ability The two part panel consisted of elementary children from second to fourth grade. These studies were conducted in a Dutch elementary school using 1050 students. The study was conducted to find out if television helped or harm children’s reading performance. THE amount of time spent watching TV The first part of the study was to understand if the amount of time children watched was effecting there reading or comprehension levels. The amount of time did have an effect on the children in a negative way. This statement automatically makes people think; oh TV is bad, but not necessarily true. There are few but good programming out there that will help teach your child the...
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...practical jokes to a portrayal of an American family to how to party, lie and deceive. The more the focus is on partying, drugs, sex, vulgarerness, the more our young people will portray these traits. There needs to be more focus on good wholesome clean fun, that keeps the youth safe and healthy. The way to change the way our society is headed is to stop the programing that is hurting all of us. Reality shows of today teaches the youth that its alright to disobey their parents, its alright to party, do drugs, have sex with multiple people, get pregnant, and that the guys that don't have to stay around or take care of the situation they helped put the girl in. The cause and effects of today's reality shows far out weigh the advantages they have. Its hard to believe that reality shows have been around for almost sixty years. The very first reality show was produced and aired in 1954, the show is Candid Camera. It was innocent practical jokes on unsuspecting strangers on the streets. The reactions were funny and the jokes were tasteful and clean. The next show is where our reality shows stem from. Its was produced and aired in 1973. An...
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...information and expect it to be there every time we tune into the specific program or channel. These programs have different paces and speeds to catch the attention of the audience. For example, educational programs are slower in order to be understandable. On the other hand, action programs moves a lot faster to catch attention. Reality TV shows are in today’s primetime now because we want to know how other people interact in different situations. On the contrary in a TV sitcom, Novak sates in his essay “television is simplified and homogenized”. Writers of TV sitcoms control what a whole culture is going to watch and thereby shapes people souls. In other words, they are always keeping the same script. This creates and shapes the mind of the audience to what is socially normal. Different programs have different effects on the audience. This is why some programs are more appealing to me than others. Mystery programs that are fast paced and have serious plots where viewers have to pay close attention, as they analyzed every scene in order to keep up, therefore speeding up the rhythm of attention. For example, Law and Order and 24 are shows where multiple scenes are running at the same time, and are only linked by specific details. As for other program such as Beavis and Butthead, they have a slower...
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...day time television. Both of the ladies are definitely the two most successful women in show business. Based on the Huffington Post, in 2013 both Oprah and Ellen were in the top 10 Forbes list for top powerful celebrities. They both have a lot of similarities in there show types along with the statues on different things. They both donate to charitable organizations including schools, they both begin in an everyday family and grew to superstardom, and both have been on the movie screen rather it was producer like Oprah or a voice in a movie like Ellen (Jancelewicz, 2013). The report showed how Ellen was not above Oprah on the ratings and...
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...teenagers, influenced me to do this paper. Below is the actual survey questionnaire that I gave to 8-20 year old children and teens, to be followed by an explanation of why I chose those kinds of questions. Questionnaire 1. State your gender: _____M _____F 2. Age range: _____5-12 _____13-25 _____26-30 3. Do you watch music videos? _____Yes _____No 4. How often do you watch music videos? _________Hours 5. Where do you watch music videos? _____TV _____Phone/iPod _____Youtube 6. Do you like to see dance routines within a music video? _____Yes _____No Why? ________________________________________________________________ 7. Do you eat while watching the TV? _____Yes _____No 8. Do you study while watching the TV? _____Yes _____No 9. What genre of music do you prefer to listen to? _____Pop _____Rock _____Classical _____Dance _____Country _____RnB _____Hip-hop 10. Do you prefer...
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