RTV 3405 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Netflix, Times Square Ball
29 Aug 2016
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99% of american households own 1+ tv set. Still relevant: avg. people spend ~5 hours a day watching tv, 360,000 ads seen before age 18, >1. 23 bil $ tv industry, avg. American consumes ~60 hours of content each week across tv, radio, mobile. Time on other devices is increasing: have their own prime times. Netflix is responsible for half total drop in us tv viewing. Tv: a system for transmitting visual images and sound that are reproduced on screens, chiefly used to broadcast programs for entertainment, information, and education: nielson: traditional tv is watched live or time-shifted content on a tv set. Industry: business model, major players an influence. Political institution: regulations for tv, political arena and political force. Cultural representation: reps our culture, includes use of stereotypes. Textual form: conveys messages that we interpret and reinterpret in new ways, analyze meanings, different people interpret it different ways, edit the text to give it new meanings (memes)
