What is Media

What is television?

A system for creating and further transmitting visual images and sound that are duplicated on screens MOSTLY used to broadcast programs for entertainment, information, and education.

• Narrow casted
• Streaming
• Channel= tuning into a certain thing
• Putin's Propaganda…

• Visual
• Often in Series
• Moving images, motion, and sound
• Color, image sound
• Time- you are
• There is a more set view on the story
• Often involves commercial
• Has been a part of our lives at one point or another
• Can be educative
• Unreal experience of life
• Is mostly shorter than movies
• Often more than one protagonist, the cast plays an important role

• Existentialism
• SOMETHING TO DO TO PASS TIME.
• Getting away from what is seen as the normal, day to day things.

How new media contains the old media.

---information, and education

1. Long form television vs. Normal

• You are more invested
• The is the feeling of “it being over”

Finishing a season is like:

“ boarding the plane to go back home”

• One one hand you are sad it is over, but happy too because you have a life to go back to.

2. What makes long-form tv long form?

2 seasons + / 10 episodes +

Once you start caring for the main characters' (world) -- the episodes can go on forever.

3. How do we approach/watch it differently?

• One episode now and then/ vs. all together → just get through it
• 50% Binge/ 50% moderate on daily basis
• 1 Not interested

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