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- 481: Advertising
- ... Advertisements are one of the most important cultural factors moulding and reflecting our life today. They are ubiquitous, an inevitable part of everyone's lives: even if you do not read a newspaper or watch television, the images posted over our urban surroundings are inescapable. Pervading all the media, but limited to none, advertising forms a vast superstructure with an apparently autonomous existence and an immense influence."(11) Television commercials and magazine advertisements tend to focus toward the people most likely to watch that television program or read that magazine. For example, if people are watching a soccer game then the commercials in between will most likely have to do with soccer. In magazines the advertisements are related to ...
- 482: Altered States
- ... driving around with their minds slightly out of kilter. In its attempt to cope with the modern life, the human mind seems to have evolved some defense strategies. Confronted with inventions like the automobile, the television, and the shopping center, for example the mind will slip--al by itself--into an altered state. First of all, the mind must now cope with the automobile. In the past no human being ever ... hilarious jokes, and attracts the opposite sex like a magnet. By splitting into two halves, the mind deals with the boredom of driving. The mind has defence not only against the auto but also against television. Since too much staring at flickering images of police officers, detectives, and talk-show hosts can be dangerous to human sanity, the mind automatically goes ito a TV hypnosis state. The eyes see the sitcom or the dog food commerical, but the mind goes into a holding pattern. NOne of the television images or sounds actually enter the brain. This is why, when questioned, peoplecannot remember commercials they have seen five seconds before or why the TV cops are chasing a certain suspect. In this hypnotic, ...
- 483: Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Grim P
- ... thought it would. Orwell, more than likely, would have made note of, but wouldn’t be astonished by, the fact that in 1983 the average American household spent over 7 hours in front of the television every night. The number is even greater for those households which currently subscribe to a cable service. Those families watch television for more that 58 hours a week. That is more that 2 days straight without sleeping, eating, or going to the bathroom. He also wouldn’t have passed by this magazine advertisement that could be ... of everyone under it’s power, and has complete physical and psychological surveillance on all people at all time. This is exemplified in the fact that the government can look back at you through your television, or telescreen as it is called in the book, and the governmet has set up telescreens almost anywhere you can go. While they don’t have telescreens in unpopulated country sides, they have gone ...
- 484: Compaq Computers
- ... holistically, not just in one dimension, but on a variety of platforms. An example of this is the vision of the future supported by Compaq, Microsoft, and Intel to provide new revenue opportunities for the television industry. The three will work with the television industry to support higher resolutions, without causing any initial receivers to become obsolete. It is expected that the computer industry will deliver millions of 'digital sets' to the market place, as many as 100 million ... that can be mutually beneficial to all involved parties. In the above example, it can be found that a growing number of companies are lining up to support the computer industry's standard for digital television, including C-Cube Microsystems Inc. However, Compaq has struggled for much of the past year to become more competitive with companies like Round Rock based Dell Computer corp., the No. 1 direct PC seller. ...
- 485: Celebrities And Their Salaries
- ... of a camera but it has negative effects on the rest of the entertainment business. Due to the salary increases, production prices are rising, quality is lowering, and it is becoming increasingly harder for a television show or movie to become a hit. Making money at the movies is problematic, though studios once thought star power was a surefire way to receive boffo box-office returns. These days star power is ... the idea counted." Yet studios continue to shell out for these big names, exploding the current price tag for the average studio film, including marketing and distribution to $60 million. The same is true for television programs such as Mad About You and The Simpsons. Helen Hunt and Paul Reiser, the stars of Mad About You demanded $1 million per episode this season (that's a $750 000 raise for both ... upon to write his own new dialogue and the turnout from that project? Let's just say that it won't be winning any Academy Awards this year or ever. Featuring A-list actors in television shows and movies is the studios' idea of an insurance policy, guaranteeing boffo box office and Nielsen ratings. There is a flaw to this logic though, big stars bomb all the time. Recently, the ...
- 486: A Lesson From Oliver
- ... There's a lot of clank and sputter not really worth listening to...but the facial expressions are amazing! This is perhaps a big part of why most radio personalities never make the transition to television (that and their unbreakable habit of wearing unwashed plaid flannel shirts). Actually, I can buy the argument that such contortionism enhances expression and nuance in the voice which is, of course, essential in a medium ... go-lucky constable into a deep pile of - "Uh, well sir, I don't think it would be ethical of me to reveal my sources at this time," I heard myself stammer. Thank goodness for television. "Don't give me that T.V. crap. Now you tell me who gave you confidential police information before -" I didn't want to hear before what - so I did the only sensible thing for ... Kent (who'd inherited it from Lloyd Robertson two years earlier when Lloyd defected to C.T.V.). Like me, Knowlton wore thick glasses. Dared I hope to one day make the grand leap to television? Knowlton, mind you, had managed this the sly way. He'd first worked his way up as head of the C.B.C. news department. Then, when they axed Kent, he'd hired himself ...
- 487: The Computer and Mass Communication
- ... moves thousands of books around the country every day. I swim in an ocean of information. We all do. In this essay, I will be discussing about the communities that were developed through newspapers and television. I will then discuss the communities that have been brought about by 'hypermedia' and how it has affected and constructed comm! unities. The terms communication and community share the same Latin root as the word ... of cities and new kinds of work and leisure. This happened whether the railway functioned in a tropical or a northern environment, and is quite independent of the freight or content of the railway medium. Television is stated to be the dominant mass medium in almost all advanced countries (McQuail,1969). Just as the telegraph and the railroad brought people of the world closer together - with all the diverse and equivocal ... use it. People actively provide the information that they want personally and other people want. There is a much more active form of participation than what is provided for by other forms of mass media. Television, radio, magazines are all driven by those who own and determine who will write for them. The Internet gives people a media they can control. This control of information is a great power that ...
- 488: Direct TV and Its Features
- Direct TV and Its Features This essay compares the difference between, Cable Television and Direct Television. At he end of this report you should have enough information to choose between the two. First we will compare the two by cost, quality (clarity of picture), installation, and convenience. Cable Television has been around since the early 80’s, that was the only alternative to regular antennas. If you choose to receive cable TV, then you had to pay an outrageous fee to your local ...
- 489: Neve Cambell
- ... love of acting, not only on a stage but to reach higher in her career and be a movie star. Neve’s career as a movie star was just the beginning of her debut on television. Neve Campbell appeared in the NBC movie " I know my son is alive". She also played Daisy in the television series "Catwalk". But Neve Cambell’s television career is most well known for her performances in "Party of Five", as Julia Slalinger. This show won an Emmy for "best show in 1995. Neve made appearances on "Kids in the hall", "kung- ...
- 490: A Detail Look Into The Internet And Where It Is Headed!
- ... impact on society. News from across the country could be received shortly after it occurred. Citizens no longer had to wait for the copy of the morning paper to hit the newsstands’(Bergeen 3). The television was invented on the heels of radio. ‘In 1920 the first primitive TV’s were born, however the media did not become persuasive until the 1950’s when they became more affordable’(Strate 2). They ... will change with the new medium because the Internet is so quickly becoming assimilated into the culture, that it would be unusual to see stories in a newspaper exploring the minutiae of older technologies like television.’(Kirsner 1). The assembled writers agreed that the cyberspace beat itself will likely disappear as technology stories seep into every section of the newspaper. ‘For example, retail reporters will cover electronic commerce, and health care ... all take a moment to breath in this massive concept of the Internet, let’s all stop to see where all this is headed before it is too late! Works Cited: Bergreen, Laurence. Radio and Television Broadcasting. The UTCAT encyclopedia, 1996. Carrol, Jim. Canadian Internet Handbook. Prentice Hall Inc. Scarborough, Ontario, 1994. Kisner, Scott. Covering Cyberspace. E & P Interactive. Boston, 1998. Strate, Lance. Mass Media. The UTCAT encyclopedia, 1996. Souverain, ...
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