For
this blog post I will be explaining how the change in television shows through
out the years has been a catalysts in altering the way people view them. In
“Life after television” Morley suggests that the television plays a role of
connection when it comes to tension between home and mobility.” In this blog
post I will display how the drastic change of television shows, from “I love
Lucy” to “the bachelor”, has transformed the traditional way of viewing of
sitting down with your family, in a ‘gated community’ avoiding the outsiders.
This change in television has also brought out corruption in media
corporations, and I will discuss how one particular show takes advantage of
it’s viewers.
A
lot of new reality shows, like the bachelor, have party viewings where people
hold parties and a viewing of an episode that will come on. Through research, I
have found out that every season of this show, the bachelorette or bachelor
himself show up to ones house who is holding a viewing party. These viewing
parties are a television viewing practice that is completely different from the
way people used to watch television. In the past, according to Morley, people
used to avoid those who were not in the same class, when watching television.
They hid in their gated communities, unifying the family as one. Now that there
are such aspects as ‘viewing parties’, no one is avoided; everyone and anyone
is invited into someone’s house to watch a show of the same interest. Morley
would suggest however, that the negative
aspect of this new practice of viewing is that those who are of old age, or are
not knowledgeable about these new shows, would never be included.
Now
a days people are not just traveling through the changing of a channel but they
are traveling to someone’s house to watch a television show. The television
role of connection when it comes to tension between home and mobility is
non-existing. This new viewing of
television show, however, does support when Morley suggests that people
pro-immigration or emigration invite others to their homes, ending up inviting
strangers. While researching about these so called ‘viewing parties’ I have
heard, but cannot be sure that the corporations are behind it all.
If,
Apparently, ABC industry chooses those who should have these viewing parties,
and already knows before hand where these famous bachelors and bachelorettes
were to go to surprise these super fans it would remind me of when Caldwell
claims that the media corporations use the audience interactivity for their own
ends. Not only do the media corporations have knowledge of who is holding this
viewing party, but the person who does have this party, pays the reality star
and the industry money for throwing it. The advertisements that the show has
persuades people; “if you throw a big viewing party, we may be at your front
door” is dishonest. The media industry not only makes money out of this offer,
but they also increase the number of people watching their show, due to the
fact every super-fan out there wants a reality star to be at their front
door. Hopefully, these rumors that I am
hearing about the industry and the viewing parties are false.
The
viewing of television has changed in drastic ways; one does not just watch
television in their home with only their family. On the other hand there is the
other end of the spectrum, people watch television by themselves on their
computers or even smart phones, not just avoiding these strangers, but avoiding
their family. Television viewing is always going to change, and the corrupted
media corporations will always be out there to take advantage. In the end, they
want the biggest numbers of views, whether you are a big fan or are watching
the show for the first time, you will be taken advantage of for their own ends.
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