The document asks questions about media usage and exposure, discusses how TV stations make money through commercials and the costs of TV shows, and covers media messages around topics like violence, sex, and gender roles on television. It also notes concerns about fewer children growing up in stable two-parent homes and more using electronic devices that take away from human interaction.
2. HW: Media Input Inventory
List exposure you have had to media messages
from the following sources for a week.
Television Movies
Tue: _________ Tue: __________
Wed: ________ Wed: _________
Thu: _________ Thu: __________
Fri: __________ Fri: ___________
Computer / Video Games Music
Tues Fri Tues Fri
Magazines Web Sites
Tues Fri Tues - Fri
3. Media Messages
How do TV stations make money?
How much do TV shows cost to
make?
Why is it free for us to watch?
4. Media Messages
How do TV stations make
money?
Charging for companies to put
commercials during their shows.
How much do TV shows cost to
make? Example - Neil Patrick
Harris and the four other main
cast mates will now be earning
$90,000-$120,000 per episode.
Why is it free for us to watch?
Super Bowl ads are $17,000 /
second or $3 遜 million for 30
seconds.
TV Comm - 10 Funny
TV Comm News Super
Bowl 2012
Funny Superbowl
5. Media Messages
What did your teacher grow up
watching on TV?
TAXI - Latka's Cookies (1 of 3)
Welcome Back Kotter - Arrivederci Arnold
ALF
16. Media Messages Review 1
1. Why do you think that the more
sex on TV / movies a child
watches, the higher the chance of
being involved in a pregnancy?
2. What is role confusion?
3. How many acts of violence are
seen on average per hour?
4. How do TV stations make their
money?
22. WHATS ON TV?
Page 6 answer top part on a sheet of
paper after watching video clip Next
1. What gender messages are viewers
receiving about how to treat others?
2. Does the media self-regulating rating
system really work?
3. Where is the line for what is
entertainment and what is shock value
for the purpose of making money?
4. How might years of viewing violence
and sexual behaviors influence how
children understand their gender role in
society?
Next
23. WHATS ON TV?
Page 7-8 answer in your work book # 1-
6 using what you listed on page 6 for the
past week.
Yes work!!!
24. Lesson Notes
Social Modeling: has been one of the
expected tasks of parenting throughout
time.
Adult Availability has decreased
Due to work
Divorce
Distance from extended family.
Two concerns:
1. Fewer children are growing up in a stable
2 parent home.
2. More children are using electronic
devices which take away time from
human interaction.
25. Lesson Notes
A link has been established between the
popular media messages regarding body
image and the incidence of unhappiness in
both adolescent males and females when
they do not meet that image.