In the article called as “Television: the plug-in drug” mentioned about television affects on American families. Generally I realised that we have the same problem as Turkish families. Firstly, when television invented it was very expensive. If people do not have their television they went their friends’ house or neighbour or families in order to watching television. This leads to very good social environment. Due to the fact that there is only one television channel there is no argument among adults or children about who watch what :) . This is very good .However I observed that these days there are hundreds of channel and generally most of the houses may have the more than 2 television. Thus, family members watch television their own room and they do not have any information about what did they today. They use their house only for watching TV and having a meal rather than sharing their emotion and life. Television affects children in a bad way. I observed one thing from my cousin. He was very concentrated to TV program and although I called his name hundreds times he didn’t hear me until the advertisements began. This is makes me very annoyed :) . In order to prevent children watching TV too much, family members also do not watch TV too much. They can play games with their children or they can organise reading hours for every members of family.
Dear Meltem,
ReplyDeleteWhen read the article I felt the same way. I was going to write a post but I am not sure if I should write about this or not but I should share this with someone. A teacher says “I have trouble mobilizing myself and dealing with real people after watching a few hours of television.” (Winn, 1936, pg. 236) . This is unbelievable but I cannot accuse that teacher because she is thinking that way because this is not her fault. Something force us to be alone and we don't like to be alone. I don't know your HIST section but when Akşin Somel was teaching modernization he talked about loneliness and how we become lonely day by day. TV can be a shelter but only if you are very old and you have nothing to do. However if you are a kid like your cousin, you should be outside, playing with your friends. Even I prefer to go outside, a garden or anywhere and spend time with my friends rather than watching TV series or movies or etc. I guess I wrote too much but still I have things to say but maybe we will discuss this tomorrow in class. Thank you for your nice post, I am glad that I saw this before I go to sleep.
by the way the colors of your blog is very nice :)
ReplyDeleteElif thank you for sharing good comments.I am looking forward to your post about this issue:) I remebered Akşin Some's lecture about modernization and it is absolutely true that technology makes us lonely. Also it makes us very isolated. When we were a child I think we are luckier than todays' child in terms of spending hours outside by playing games rather than being addicted to television. I am very happy for that you like my colours of blog :)
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