Growing Up With Television: The Cultivation Perspective

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I honestly never put a lot of thought to how growing up with television has affected our lives. The newer generations are more connected, informed, and given loads of information that may or may not be true. Reading Growing up with Television: the Cultivation Perspective has given me a better understanding with the relationships we have with television.
Television is a system of storytelling and has become a daily ritual like a religion. The similarity is shown through the repetition of patterns, i.e. a relationship, ideas, myths. The restricted set of ideas allow the homogeneous and constant content to attract a much larger audience. We learn that the technological developments like cable and VCR did not lead to change of content. This is
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