Relationship to Media
According to research mentioned, excessive TV watching is linked to this health issue, among others.
What is obesity?
TV can be valuable for this purpose, though it should not dominate one's ______ time.
What is leisure/personal time?
Watching TV is Not Required was first published in this year.
What is 2010?
The authors use this term to explain that this text is meant to be a middle-ground between a call to stop watching television and maintaining passive acceptance.
What is Media Therapy?
Professor Eric's last name.
What is Magnuson?
This type of television presence involves television being “on in the background” or as white noise without any active attention from the viewer.
What is diffuse presence?
Another word for Balanced Lifestyle.
+200 Freebie. Make your definition of a balanced life.
The book targets individuals who feel that TV dominates their time or who are seeking ways to make more ______ use of their leisure hours.
To point out _____ impacts of the excessive time watching TV>
What is Negative impacts?
The Los Angeles Dodgers Won last night. True or False?
What is True?
(9-0)
Americans utilize television for this many hours a day when adding up direct and indirect watching.
What is 7 hours?
This type of practice involves intention-setting, awareness, and mindfulness. The authors also use the term for this practice to explain how Americans “do” television.
What is meditation?
This book serves as a guide to helping readers recognize the value of their____.
What is Time?
This 1998 movie is referenced to explain how the authors want us to have a “wake up” moment and separate ourselves from the media's influence on our lives.
What is The Truman Show?
We, as a class, always stump Professor Eric in this.
Hint: (He is getting better though)
What is learning our names?
This type of television presence involves the viewer watching in an active and focused way.
What is direct presence?
Excessive TV watching cuts our time in this drastically.
(Hint: INNER AND OUTER CIRCLE)
The page number that the index of the book is on correlates to this about the chapter?
+400 points Freebie. Made that whole thing up.
The authors suggest engaging in hobbies like reading, exercising, and spending quality time with loved ones. These hobbies can be described as _____ ______.
What are alternate activities?
The best TV show is _____?
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This is the title given to television’s role in our lives by the authors in the first chapter due to television’s influence on how we choose to live our lives.
What is Third Parent?
This 1976 movie is referenced in Chapter 1 to explain how TV trains our brains to be focused on drama rather than developing real relationships or being “TV incarnate”
What is Network?
The authors names are Bernard ________ and John _______.
Who is McGrane and Gunderson?
The authors want TV viewers to adopt this type of attitude in order to think critically about media and have resistance to media messaging.
What is vigilant?
What color of car did Professor Eric want?