Sentences with phrase «nature of television»

This study examined the nature of television, video game, and social media use in children (ages 8 — 18) with autism spectrum disorders (ASD, n = 202) compared to typically developing siblings (TD, n = 179), and relative to other activities.

What does one make of images picturing iconic figures as disparate as Gumby and Babe Ruth, paired with musings on the repressive nature of television or poetic exhortations to greatness?

In this regard, I suppose it is in keeping with the nature of the television show, in which the characters were portrayed more for their professional interactions than in times where they «let their hair down» and became just your average guy in the street.

Because the selective nature of television is often overlooked, the diversity of American religious culture is in danger of being narrowed to that particular strand of religious faith which is now being promoted by television largely because of its acceptance and coherence with television's own social and economic goals.

These programs, he suggests are irrelevant to the mass audience of television because they fail to understand and adapt to the true nature of television as it functions in American society.

Rightly perceiving the nature of the television environment and having to succeed financially within it, the broadcasters have allowed their programs to be almost totally shaped by it.

A third implication arises from the nature of television as an oral medium.

This religious nature of television content and use is posing a challenge to established religious bodies.

There are many rituals associated with the use of mass media, but the ritualistic nature of television in modern society is perhaps the most readily identifiable.

This feeling is encouraged by the insistently diachronic nature of a television series: «Previously, on Mad Men»; «Next time, on Mad Men.»

Not exact matches

In Tuesday's investors webcast, Shammo stopped short of discussing the exact nature of Verizon's agreements with broadcasters, while adding that the new pay - TV bundle is designed to appeal to customers looking for a more customizable television package.

With Blue Ant, MacMillan appears to be tacking against the torrents of broadcast television dreck at the bottom of the dial by targeting two coveted demographics, the first of which is thinking, affluent baby boomers: its portfolio includes content about the cottage lifestyle, travel, and PBS - style documentary programming through the Canadian version of the Smithsonian Channel, as well as a nature channel called Oasis.

As seen in archival footage from KQED television, the Christian nature of the event was unmistakable.

The one remarkable thing about the television set, according to him, is that it moves — a thesis which in view of the nature of American programs has, admittedly, something attractive about it.

In comedies as diverse as Shakespeare's and those on prime time television, life progresses from a state of crisis created by some illusion to a harmonious recovery brought about by discovering the true nature of the circumstances.

The impact of this recent growth on the nature of religious television in America has been profound.

The memo also says that the reason for these changes is that Hulu Plus has just been too successful for its own good, which means it's time for the powers that be to remind everyone that, regardless of whatever hippy technological advances humanity has made in terms of streaming video, nature intended television to be watched on actual televisions, at certain times, with certain commercial breaks, and that's not going to change on their watch...

Have such churches grasped the new nature of social reality as it has been created in our subconscious by television and the other mass media?

If media violence, especially when that violence is in its nature sexual, in fact does threaten the quality of American life, then how do the creative and managerial people in television feel about the use of violence in their productions?

The premises are fair enough: that nihilism «involves a simplification of human nature, a reduction of its complexity and range, and an abridgment of its aspirations,» and that today's movies and television shows simplify human nature.

Genesis also affirms the fundamental value of each human life, our essential equality as human beings, and our interrelatedness with nature, rather than television «s view that young, white, unmarried males are somehow given a position of power considerably «above» females, older people, and minorities.

The nature of religious television in America can be seen to be a function of the interaction of four main players; changes over the past decades have come about because of changes in the relative power and relationships of the four following players: (1) the regulatory agencies of the federal government, which, through the legislative process, provide the structure within which interaction inside the television industry takes place; (2) the television industry, primarily network and local station managements, which control the airwaves within the legislated structure; (3) the viewing public, which selects what it is that will be watched; and (4) the religious broadcasters who provide the material for broadcasts.

Changes in the nature of religious television in the 1960s and 1970s can therefore be seen to have been a function of a historical coincidence of a number of related factors: social conditions, government regulation, audience response, and general trends in religious culture.

H. Richard Niebuhr described the nature of the church and the world in words which have remarkable relevance to the current situation facing religion in its uneasy and ambivalent relationship to the world of television:

To repeat, commercial television by its very nature and structure tends to reject most — though not all — of this kind of programming, which means that the church «s involvement in the mass media is necessarily limited both by the natural strictures of the medium itself and by the artificially imposed rejection of the message which is inherent in its a profit - motivated structure.

It has failed for two reasons: because it has not taken seriously enough the demonic nature of general television; and because it has proceeded on an inadequate understanding of the nature of the Christian gospel.

Now, thankfully we do not see people beating each other up at the grocery store for the last package of Oreos on a regular basis (only on Black Friday sales for cheap TVs), but we can see in our movies, television shows, books, and overarching culture that violence is still seen as a somewhat legitimate — often glamorous — method for achieving one's goals, whether it be overt or covert in nature.

Especially important in supplying such information are books, magazines, newspapers, radio, and television, through which the public can best be kept continually abreast of developments and possibilities both in weapons technology and in efforts toward armament reduction and control, and can be made aware of the nature and scope of the peril in which the world stands so long as war remains the ultimate resort in the settlement of international differences.

It may be also that such churches have grasped the new nature of reality as it has been created in our subconscious by television and the other mass media.

The general community shock that followed these events found expression in a strong suspicion that the media, particularly the television and video industry, contributed significantly to these and other expressions of social violence through the heavily violent nature of much of their news and entertainment programming.

Television's managers have exercised a powerful censoring effect on the expression of religious faith in America, giving them consequentially an exaggerated influence over the development of American religious culture and institutions and possibly over the nature of American and even global religious life.

Where an effect may be taking place, it is more likely to be in the nature of channelling members of churches away from those churches that are not rep - resented on television toward those that are.

The growth of paid - time religious television and its many affiliated religious services, industries, and practices presents a radical challenge to established ideas about the nature of the Christian church.

What appears to be true is that the greater discrimination is to be found not on the basis of the theological or ecclesiastical tradition from which the program comes, but from the nature of the financial relationship between the broadcaster and the television station.

Several of the findings from this uses - and - gratifications approach are of direct importance for understanding the nature of the audience of religious television programs and the reasons for viewing.

It is one way in which the economic structures of television shape the nature of the message broadcast by it.

Because television is a capital - intensive industry, the matter of where the money is to come from is one of central importance, for it has been demonstrated that the source of the finances for religious programming plays a ma) or part in shaping the nature of the program.

With the strongly competitive nature of American television and the combined functions it serves as both entertainer and killer of vacant time, there is a strong emphasis on the production of material that will catch and hold the viewer's attention.

Two crews of Italian videographers were aboard the ship and the one that was shooting a television nature documentary put on heavy - duty wetsuits to brave the freezing ocean, while getting up - close and personal with the aquatic birds.

To comprehensively assess the extent, nature and impact of unhealthy food advertising targeted to children on New Zealand television.

A keen supporter of Jeremy Corbyn, and unafraid to cause controversy in the Parliamentary Chamber, Neil will be hoping his outspoken nature curries him favour against someone who hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons when she asked to restart a live television interview.

Much has changed in the 65 years since Clement Attlee declined the opportunity to talk to an obsequious television reporter, but Cowley is not sure that everybody yet appreciates how the television debates have changed utterly the nature of election campaigns.

In an atmosphere of that nature, it is clear that there can be no unity, because it is not the words that are said in the front of television cameras that will bring unity, it is the actions that we take when nobody is watching.

«I think that, given the graphic nature of these photos, it would create some national security risk,» Obama said in a television interview.

«Discovering Alabama: Alabama in Space,» a nature television series produced for Alabama Public Television, (in which Les is one of several scientists featured) won an Etelevision series produced for Alabama Public Television, (in which Les is one of several scientists featured) won an ETelevision, (in which Les is one of several scientists featured) won an EMMY Award!

Acting for 22 years, Dominic has been fortunate enough to be involved with some of the biggest movie franchises and must see television shows including his recent Emmy nominated nature adventure show Wild Things.

His twin features Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) and the new Good Night, and Good Luck both employ a unique visual scheme and clever performances to explore the elusive nature of truth within and surrounding the television medium.

I remember when Clark Gregg referred to himself as the glue in the MCU... but I think ScarJo has taken his place... and because of the nature of her character and her prominence in so many different plotlines, Black Widow would be the perfect character to bridge the gap between Marvel Cinema and Marvel television.

Effectively conveying fear, compassion and Blackberry - immersed distraction, the star is a credible television wrangler whose diminutive size reinforces the daunting nature of the task ahead of her.

«I, Tonya» takes the addictive nature of reality television and applies that to feature film, and you can't turn away.