Television Can Have It's Negative Effects

 Television: The Most Influential Medium
 We have always been proud of TV as being the most entertaining medium available at our homes. Although it has many positive effects in our life it has negative effects on us individuals. The negative effects of Tv are huge. The time we spend watching Tv can be the time we can spend doing something much more important in our daily lives, such as activities, studying, socializing, exercising or learning. The violence displayed on Tv can also have a negative effect on our lives as we encode them by watching anything displayed on TV. Television is a powerful teacher and especially for children because if children are always viewing their favorite characters using violence or aggression to get what they want, children will do the same. Tv is also making us fat becase of the time we spend sitting on the sofa and not moving anywhere else. Moreover Tv is making us materialistic due to all the advertisement commercials displayed we start demanding products more than we would actually want.

Advice :
Although TV is really important in our life and we cannot live without it and we use it for watching the news, our favorite shows, programs, movies and everything else, we need to limit the amount of time we spend on TV because it can have negative effects on us individuals and on children specifically and it could influence us all in general it could be good sometimes or it could be bad.

Did You Know?

A surge of new technologies and social media innovations is altering the media landscape.

This video basically shows us the statistical changes that have been happening due to the digital revolution. It shows us the new technologies that have been developed in the rescent years and how they have changed almost everyone's habits around the world. New habits are being acquired by people and have affected the way they deal with traditional mediums. People are adapting quickly to new technologies, and the use of those new technologies have rised. Since the chapters we have discussed in the previous lectures provide information about the traditional mediums and their new digital forms, I thought maybe this video could be useful to show everyone the differences between some of the old mediums and the uses of the new mediums. This video focuses a lot on how everything has turned digital and the incredible innovations.

Charlie Chaplin & Silent Film Era

 

 

Charlie Chaplin(16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor that had the most successful films back in the days during the silent film era. He continued his way through the talkies era too. He is said to be a comedy and cinema legend as well as a great entertainer for the audience watching. He was creative and influentianal at the same time. In the early 1900's he had a huge impact on the lives of Americans also during the world wars and the hard times of the Depression. He made people laugh and changed the way they looked at the world despite his own troubles. And even though his films were in black and white, he put a lot of color into everyone's life. For his films, he used popular songs of the day along with great pieces of classical music along with music he composed by himself.

Citizen Journalism

Citizen Journalism:
It is a term that refers to the public being the active members in the making of news stories. Individuals are basically without professional training they are normal citizens that dessiminate news with the use of modern communication technology. Citizen journalism has been flourishing at a higher rate in the Arab world due to the uprisings. People are uploading their own videos and news on blogs or are interacting with specific TV channels websites Other than uploading content through the website, user media content can also be sent via email or directly from their mobiles of what currently is happening; therefore, giving the world a different taste of how life is in their region than the mainstream publications are providing. Certain videos are then edited by the Tv Channel then broadcasted to the large audience around the world. Citizen journalism has gave people the chance of expressing the real situations though which they are going through, and have played a major role lately in the Arab region.

Newspapers Vs. News In A Digital Era

OLD Vs.NEW

Since we have reached chapter 4 which discusses newspapers, I thought about uploading a video related to the topic of the chapter. Newspapers, as we predicted about books, are also facing a threat of whether or not they will still exist in the future. The digital revolution has been troubling for the newspaper industry. Newspapers have existed for quiet a long time, but now the Internet has also been taking over their work. By having special websites offering subscriptions for viewing the daily news, the newspaper's usage has declined. We are able to follow up on fresh information by accessing the Internet in a click of a button. Although there are many advantages of newspapers, but they are still impossible to update if any mistake in disseminating a news has already been printed out and sent to society. Since we are not sure of what the future holds we still cannot be sure if they will still exist in the future or not, especially when many people are used to their usage. The Internet now provides a constant, ever-changing source of information and entertainment for everyone! 

The Digital Future Of Books.

Ibook On Ipad

Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Inc, intoducing the new application on ipad called the ibook, and explaining how it is used and how simple it could be be to download ebooks right on our ipad. He also discusses the advantages of the innovation. The "book shelf" in the application organizes and shows the books downloaded. By a direct click on the book we can sit, read and tap on the screen to flip the pages. The font can be also edited for people that have difficulties with printed books that have small fonts. It is certainly a great online bookstore, and the advantages of ebooks seem to exceed the disadvantages of it in one way or another. With a tap we are able to save time and power of actually driving to a book store to buy a book.  For many people they still prefer the use of traditional books because they require no batteries or power supply, no complex software, and no period of waiting until a machine warms up. In my opinion i think this is a great technology, but im still not sure if traditional books will cease to exist in the future.

The Doctors TV show & How Useful It Could Be

The Doctors Tv show is one of my best TV programs and i certainly think it is a very advanced way of communicating about medical issues with large audience. The medical team use their knowledge and years of experience to educate viewers and provide valuable resources.Certain experiments and activities  usually encourages the audience to follow up with every episode of the show. It unfortunately helps, and provides us with medical information that we used to lack in the past.  This show really helps people and provides awareness to certain medical issues we may not have realized. It can be symptoms or any other medical problems we may need to pay attention to. I advise my colleagues at university to always follow this show because it could be very helpful for their own knowledge.