{"id":1954,"date":"2011-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2011\/01\/12\/has-our-society-been-changed-by-the-increasing-influence-of-the-television\/"},"modified":"2011-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"has-our-society-been-changed-by-the-increasing-influence-of-the-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2011\/01\/12\/has-our-society-been-changed-by-the-increasing-influence-of-the-television\/","title":{"rendered":"Has our Society Been Changed by the Increasing Influence of the Television?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; \u201cTelevision is by now so inextricably part of all our domestic lives that it resists analysis.\u201d (Fred Inglis) \uf0b7<br \/>\n&#8211; In this project my aim is to examine how the television has affected our lives in the last fifty years. <\/p>\n<p>Guy Debord<br \/>\n&#8211; In this project I will discuss Debord\u2019s theory of mass media \uf0b7<br \/>\n&#8211; I apply his theory to contemporary television to discuss the extent to which his argument is valid. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Short History of Celebrity\u201d by Fred Inglis<br \/>\n&#8211; Through looking at this book I have examined how the television has affected the celebrity \uf0b7<br \/>\n&#8211; I have compared David Beckham to Stanley Matthews to see how the television has affected the footballer as the celebrity<\/p>\n<p>Political Affect<br \/>\n&#8211; I have examined the different propagandas used by politicians \uf0b7<br \/>\n&#8211; I have looked at the first televised debates in 1960 between Nixon and Kennedy \uf0b7<br \/>\n&#8211; I have discussed the extent to which the television has influenced votes.<\/p>\n<p>Paris Hilton<br \/>\n&#8211; I have chosen Paris Hilton as a case study \uf0b7<br \/>\n&#8211; Paris has used the media and the television to create herself as a brand which she sells<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah King, 2011, Stage 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[580,22,128],"tags":[26,484,437],"class_list":["post-1954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-580","category-abstracts","category-stage-2-abstracts","tag-celebrity","tag-debord","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}