I started this projected believing that binge-watching a show has a negative impact on people social interactions. I believed that since binge watching requires a lot of one's time in order to be done, one would just start binge-watching something and then stop talking to their friends and family. I believed this because I saw myself as an example, whenever I binge watch a show I stop talking completely to those around me, I will occasionally snap or text one friend who has seen the show and talk about something big that might have happened in the show, but the conversation will not last long because I wanted to get back on watching the show. But since I was the only thing I had as an example I decided to make surveys and see other people's viewpoints on the topic in order to expand my opinion on the matter. …show more content…
As stated on one of my past paragraphs, the second survey was focused on people on their late 30s and older. Most of the responses I received were negative, there were some that said positive due do it creating something to talk about but mostly negative since by doing it they are avoiding social interaction and that shows/movies is not a genuine topic to talk about amongst friends. Their answers added on to my negative beliefs towards binge watching affecting social interactions since it also made a point of how if one friendship is based on their opinions towards shows then it is not a sincere friendship. That is when I realized a need to look at my other survey in order to expand opinion on that
The panoply of programs a television provides allows a viewer to search for new interests and inspires them to do new things. I, for one, can attest to this, as my knowledge of baseball was limited as a child, until one day I decided to watch a broadcast of the San Francisco Giants; now I am a baseball superfan with friends from all over the country who share in this interest, and also a softball player who exercises every day. I did not become a couch potato from my experiences with television, but rather, a happier, healthier
Primarily, the domination power television has on its viewers is incomparable to the one drugs have over their addicts. First, addicts to television are not dominated in the same level addicts to drugs are. Hamill says that television absorbs its viewers in the same way drugs absorb their users because both television and drugs cultivate asocial behaviors in people (63, 64). Departing from this idea, it may seem reasonable to say that addicts to television and drugs both portrait unsocial attitudes, but doesn't this happen with any other kind addiction? Here Hamill is isolating a generalization which intention is to proclaim an assumption to be true. In his example, Hamill explains how some Americans fight their loneliness by leaving their TV sets on as companion (63). Instead of support Hamill's idea this example shows how Americans fulfill their vacancy of company rather than how Americans become lonely due to television. Second, independent studies on television do not qualify to determine the relation betwe...
Whether entertainment media has a negative or positive social influence depends upon the individual participants and their perspectives. Because everyone is raised differently and has different experiences in their lives they also have a different perspective of events; therefore, no two people see or hear the same thing. This has been demonstrated numerous times by witnesses of a crime. If you have five witnesses and ask each of them what they saw, you will get five different responses because each of them saw the event differently.
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As long as a balanced lifestyle is maintained, binge watching can be quite healthy. For some people, binge viewing can be a great stress reliever and provide a type of television therapy (Matrix 129). For example, stressed out students regularly rely on binge viewing to immersive themselves in another world for the pleasure of leaving their own stressful lives (Matrix 129). Binge watching provides an escape from the pressures and anxieties of everyday life, giving consumers an outlet to getaway and immerse themselves in an activity, which has dramatically less damaging consequences than other outlets that stressed out individuals use to escape, such as drugs and
West, Kelly. “Unsurprising: Netflix Survey Indicates People Like To Binge-Watch TV.” Television Blend. 13 Dec. 2013. Webta Labs. 24 April 2014. http://www.cinemablend.com/television/Unsurprising-Netflix-Survey-Indicates-People-Like-Binge-Watch-TV-61045.html
Television shows have been a big part of our culture for several decades now. The progression on how these shows have affected our lives is something I’ve come to wonder about. Whether a good or bad thing, I personally don't go a day without some form of television interaction. The medias which we are able to access a tv series have become much more vast than the limitation of only a TV set. Many teens to young adults, including myself, stream series from tablets, pc’s and also cell phones now, which has completely changed the interaction standard, let alone what it is people take from the experience. People may not intentionally try to take something from watching 11 episodes of Gilmore Girls in one sitting, but it just comes to show how times
I conducted this survey with my parents, my brother, two family friends, and figured out which questions pertain to the powers of television. Questions one, five, nine, and fourteen all pertain to entertainment. Questions eleven, twelve, and thirteen are used to socialize and educate. The questions that refer to information are questions three, six, and ten. For community and consensus, questions two, four, seven, and eight apply to this power of television. My parents results correlated to one another because they both strongly agreed on questions one, five, eleven, and fourteen. They strongly disagreed on questions two, three, five, nine, twelve, and thirteen. My brother agreed on questions two, nine, ten, and fourteen, while he strongly disagreed on questions one, three, four, six, seven, twelve, and thirteen. The two family friends I surveyed agreed strongly to questions one through five as well as question fourteen. They were indifferent or disagreeable when it came to the remainder of the questions. To conclude, a vast majority of the people I surveyed firmly agreed on the questions relating to the power of entertainment.
Have you ever spent hours watching your favorite shows for longer than you can remember? The article, “Pro/Con: Binge-watching” debates the pros and cons of spending hours of your day watching shows, and what the effects of binge-watching are. Binge-watching is an addiction that can cause serious damage if you spend too long doing it because it can cause numerous health problems and insomnia, and because it can end up making you depressed and lonely and can worsen your stress, and even though binge-watching releases dopamine that relieves some stress, you can get addicted to the same dopamine which could develop into something similar to a drug addiction. Binge-watching is a harmful addiction and can be deleterious to you because there are
In “Television Addiction” by Marie Winn, the author suggests that TV addiction and Drug and Alcohol addiction are similar in many ways. First she explains what she considers to be a serious drug addiction, such as not feeling normal without them, the need to repeat it, ignoring other pleasurable experiences, never being satisfied, damaging one’s life and ruining relationships. Then she asks us to consider the television addiction in the same light and explains why she feels that it should be. In my experience I can see how television viewing would be considered an addiction and why Winn would too. When someone allows an activity to negatively affect their productivity, relationships and
Woodard, E.H. & Gridina, N. “Media in the Home 2000, The fifth annual survey of parents and children.” The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA. Feb 2001. 20 Mar 2008 .
WETHINGTON, HOLLY, LIPING PAN, and BETTYLOU SHERRY. "The Association Of Screen Time, Television In The Bedroom, And Obesity Among School-Aged Youth: 2007 National Survey Of Children's Health." Journal Of School Health 83.8 (2013): 573-581. Academic Search Complete. Web. 9 Nov. 2013.
Going through this survey has made me question some of the choices I have made in my life. Who I trust, who I care about, what I am doing with my life. I found out some things I already knew, I found out some things I didn’t know. Overall I learned a lot from this survey.
When television first came on the market about fifty years ago, families had one television at the most in the household, and most families only used the television for the news or for an occasional show or two. Today, it is a rarity if you find only one television in a household. Most families have numerous televisions in their house and use it more and more for entertainment purposes. People of all ages are addicted to television. On average, people watch about thirty hours of television a week. But the people who go beyond this mark are known to society as “couch potatoes';.
One of the physiological effects of watching television in excessive amounts is eye-strain. It is true that there are specifications for watching television; television should be 5 m. away from the eye, the room should be adequately lit, television should be placed at the same height with our eyes, etc. However, these do not prevent our eyes from getting tired if we keep watching television for a long time. Another effect is obesity, which is widely observed in people who like watching television and eating snacks everyday (there is even a term “television snacks” to refer to fast food that is suitable for eating in front of the television). television is such a powerful machine that people cannot get away from it – it is addictive. Apart from the physiological effects, television also causes psychological effects. One is a result of being exposed to