Television images

How real are the images we see on TV?
http://www.irishhealth.com/?id=10201&level=4
Sample size: 161 children
Aim: Ask chidren about the possibility of interaction between an image on a television screen and the real world
Who do research: researchers at the Nagoya University in Japan and the findings were presented at a recent conference of the British Psychological Society
Results:
Chidren:
5,5 years old: thought the paper doll appearing on screen would fall down if somebody in the real world was to blow on it
Furthermore, if the researchers allowed the children to blow on the screen, they blew hard, as if they believed they could blow the paper doll down.
The same was true for the reversed roll, with most children believing that the paper doll in front of the TV would fall down if blown on by a girl appearing on screen.

>= 6 years old: did not believe this type of interaction was possible.

The children then understand that TV images are different from real objects.

Who controls the images we see on TV?
Media control is the act of taking control of the message that the media puts out by taking direct control over the finances of the people who put out the message.
If a news reporter knows that the financial security of their family is dependent on pushing a certain bias, they will do it. And if you have enough reporters and media consultants who are more comfortable with that bias than questioning what they are reporting in an open and investigating way, the bias becomes part of the psyche of the people
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DEFD81239F937A35752C1A96F948260

Can they influence the way we think and behave, for example making us want to be thin, to buy products or commit violence?
http://www.rense.com/general63/traid.htm
its influence is so great, so pervasive, it has become part of our lives. You lose your sense of what is being done to you, but your mind is being shaped and moulded. Your mind is being shaped and moulded If that doesn't sound like brainwashing

Do you think that television images reinforce or challenge stereotype?
French photographer JR, who goes by his initials only, thought about those images, the stereotypes they reinforced and how he could use photography to bring a different message
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/teachers/pshe_11_14/subject_areas/prejudice/newsid_4134000/4134678.stm

Media Stereotype:
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/stereotyping/index.cfm
It means giving audiences a quick, common understanding of a person or group of people, such as: class, ethnicity or race, gender, sexual orientation, social role or occupation.


List any stereotypes which you think are common on TV?
Common TV stereotypes include a characters:
Age (old people, young people, teenagers)
Sex (women and men, boys and girls)
Job (teacher, model, truck driver, doctor, lawyer)
Culture (Scottish, Irish, Italian)
Race (black, white, Chinese, Hispanic)
Looks (beautiful, ugly, 'nerdy')
Position in a family (mother, father, sister, brother, grandmother, grandfather)

Can stereotype on TV be avoided?
I think it is inevitable because it is very common in advertisement, entertainment in new industries or developed countries. It is just because of a result of developing economics.