Alyse Ellis
9/30/2010
Citations
Tucker, L., & Friedman, G. (1989). Television Viewing and Obesity in Adult Males. American Journal of Public Health, 79(4), 516-518. Retrieved from Academic Search Complete database.
In this article, the authors conducted experiments to measure a relationship between the numbers of hours watched per day with the health affects obtained. They took a sample of 6,138 employed adult males. After they took note of the men’s age, smoking status, length of work week, measured physical fitness, and reported weekly hours of exercise, they began to record their experiment. Physical fitness consistently confounded the associations between TV viewing and obesity/super-obesity, but the other control variables did not do so.
McIlwraith, R., & Jacobvitz, R. (1991). Television addiction. American Behavioral Scientist, 35(2), 104. Retrieved from Academic Search Complete database.
This article debates on the dependency of the television, while exploring the problems concluded by studies of popular culture. They also analyzed how phrase making tends to establish the conventional wisdom on topics of popular culture before any data can be collected. They proceeded to wonder if existing psychological data on television addiction and TV addicts. They stated that nine possible criteria for making a diagnosis of substance dependency.
Mishraka. (2007, August 18). TV Addiction [Web log post]. Retrieved from
This blog is mainly about the personal experience of addiction. Stated are a few of the symptoms and emotions she feels while watching and not watching TV. Majority of the emotions are negative. Thus the author concludes that he is against this dependency on TV. The text is persuasive in the sense that they write in a way that moves the reader to feel it is a negative dependency. The text exudes this emotion through phrases such as, “[My addiction]… has caused me a great deal of mental, physical and psychological agony.” The word “agony” proves to the reader that the victim is admitting to distress, and misery. The only evidence given is that of their own experiences. Even then this evidence is not factual because it is an opinion. In this context the author is bias towards this addiction. Most likely because they have experienced it first-hand. The text is captivating because it’s logical to assume everyone in this century has a TV. However it holds that interest in forcing the reader to question their own situation, and whether or not they too are dependent on this media device.
Turk, James F. (2004, May 10). The Television Addiction. The Real Truth. Retrieved from
This web article gives plenty of information on this addiction. A few of the subtopics are, “The Plug-In Drug”, “Effects on Kids”, and “The Babysitter”. All of these subtopics complement the argument of being addicted to television. In a more statistical point of view, it also gives multiple percentages to support the argument. This article does argue the negative cases of the debate. It has a lot of statistics to help visualize how many families have come in contact with this addiction. It also shows that people of all ages are subject to this addiction.
Turk, James F. (2004, July 10). The Television Addiction. The Real Truth. Retrieved from
This web article is a continuation of the previous article, “The Television Addiction. He further discusses the addiction with addition to his statistics and argument. Although he continues to discuss the negative aspects of the case. He goes over subjects such as “Foul Language”, and effects of “Reality TV”. He also discusses how these shows might affect the lives of people later on. The author explores the possibility of how people act in shows might influence how younger kids act as they grow.
Pawlowski, C. (2005). Glued to the Tube: The Threat of Television Addiction to Today's Family.
Sourcebooks.
This book comes across as a very straight forward negative aspect of the addiction. She very bluntly states in her book, “For better or for worse it can be argued that TV is not only a part of the family, but has become its dominant member.” She cites statistics gathered by Joshua Meyrowitz in his book, No Sense of Place, that suggest children ages two to five watch between twenty-five and thirty-two hours of TV per week and these viewing habits often last a lifetime. She continues to discuss on average how long a child will spend watching TV. This later turns out to be a shocking ten years! This book is definitely persuasive to the sense that it gets the reader thinking in a bigger picture. To say that we watch TV for an hour a day is not nearly as effective as saying we watch ten years’ worth of TV in a life time.
Herr, N. (2007). Television & Health. California State University, Northridge. Retrieved October 6, 2010
This site lists the information discovered. It is very straight forward and presented bluntly. This list includes: Family life, Children, Violence, Commercialism, and General. All of these lists give reasons to why this addiction is bad. It also suggests ways of getting rid of the addiction. Although limited the site is helpful. It also does have text about “The Influence of Television”, to back up the lists presented. The text is very subtle in suggesting how negative this addiction is. However, it does make the point known that is a negative habit to have.
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