In five pages this paper examines Mander's 4 points pertaining to society and television including the viewer's limited awareness, human imagery as replaced by video waves, disconnection of TV images from their sources, reality TV and voyeurism. Six sources are cited in the bibliography.
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means by public awareness is "walled in." Words carry with them a great deal of power; they are capable of destroying nations and rebuilding faith. They are eloquent
and strong, intimidating and potent. Language serves many purposes but of its many overwhelming influences, none are as significant as its ability to impart information. The theory of
agenda setting asserts that television does not necessarily tell people outright what they should think; instead, the basis of spotlighting certain issues is to tell people what to think about.
Clearly, one might not readily comprehend the seemingly insignificant difference between the two thoughts, inasmuch as some believe that mass media have long acted as social dictator when it
comes to providing biased information. The theory of agenda setting - which "focuses on the cognitive, indirect effects of the mass media" (Matthews et al, 2002) - is said
to represent mass medias position as societys "gatekeeper," meaning that television, magazines and newspapers collectively determine "which items of information hold significance for society" (Tenorio, 2002), thereby deciding which social
and political issues are worthy of attention and establishing an unnatural prominence of topics. The student will apply this to the experience of the Long Island environment. II.
TV REPLACES HUMAN IMAGES Like its computer counterpart, Mander (1978) indicates that television has become a replacement for conventional social interaction. Far too many people - particularly adolescents -
are content to spend their free time interacting with an inanimate object that projects one-dimensional images rather than communicate with living, breathing people in a three-dimensional atmosphere. "Though television
passes for experience, it is really more like time out. Its interaction with the human body and mind fixes people to itself, dulls human sensibility and dims awareness of