COMM 4643 Lecture 13: ME Notes Week 5 Monday
20 Sep 2016
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Active doctors of medicine: ~. 29% as of 2014. Law enforcement officers: ~. 28% as of 2016: what percent are women: ~12% as of 2016. What the us would look like if it mirrored the main characters on prime time tv. 31. 8% of the population would work for the police or some sort of federal law enforcement agency. Heavy viewers of television develop or cultivate view of the world similar to what they see on television. Tv cultivates distorted realities: the symbolic world of tv is different from objective reality . Tv is the great storyteller of our age. Tv is the most common and constant learning environment . Tv is the wholesale distributor of images which form the mainstream of our popular culture. Seeing is believing : we see images on tv and we think they are true and actually happening, visual images trump other forms of knowledge. Visuals arouse more interest, attention, and emotion than text and verbal.
