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Big Fat Rat, licenced under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 GenericHi everyone
Last week one of group of our class members presented the Marie Winn's "Television the plug-in drug". I liked the slides and their designes. For example they used many diagrams for the researches and for to summurize the "rituals" part. Diagrams help audience to understand the subject easily.
The text was interesting but I don't agree with Marie Winn in some cases. There is a quote which is "if the child's home life is all right, parents need not worry about the effects of too much television watching" (Winn, 2002). That is really true. If everything allright and there is no big problem in a family then the psychology of the family members especially the kid's will be helathy. In addition many families, groups has become television oriented. For example in Turkey many people don't go out when Kurtlar Vadisi or Aşk-ı Memnu on television at that night. She also said that the transformation of culture occur in recent years. The rituals of a family such as jokes rituals, mealtime rituals orholiday rituals is changing.
To sum up, people and their cultureis changing with television. Children are becoming more insociable and alone.
I don't agree with Winn because many families can do common activities with television for example my parents and I watch films, series together. Also in football days my grandfathr, my dad and my uncle want to watch the game together so in these days my cousins and I will be together too.
Yes, I think Winn cannot acknowledge the fact that rituals also evolve - she is just nostalgic for 'the old days'!
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