We recently had a lecture about the history of television as a form of mass communication. I found it incredible that in 1936 there were only 200 televisions in the whole world, but by 1964 there were 73 million televisions, and by 1977, 97% of all homes had televisions.
When we learned about the impact that television has had I was able to make many connections to my life. TV keeps us indoors. I have noticed that a lot since the lecture. On a beautiful day you can go outside and not see many other people out enjoying the weather. That's probably because people prefer to stay indoors and lay on the couch watching TV.
I wish we could have maybe talked about how TV has affected overall health of people since more time is spent laying around instead of exercising. I think if we had talked about this than it might have showed more of the enormous impact that television has had. I don't know if TV has affected people's health, but if I had to guess people were probably healthier before television.
Another thing I could relate to was how politicians use TV as their main form of campaign advertisement. I can connect to this because whenever there is an election coming up I see an endless amount of ads for and against the candidates.
Overall, I could connect to a lot of the ways television has impacted our society.
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