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This paper analyzes how television often disappoints the viewer, although he or she will anyway continue watching what he or she did not mean to watch. The author asserts that there is a deep lack of knowledge of the medium, whereas television is affected by prepotency, by the tendency [...]

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Television has a great influence in the mode of thinking and life-styles of its viewers. This article defines the concept of manipulation and explains the audiovisual and verbal language. Then it suggests some methods for avoiding manipulation and preserving your own freedom: to know [...]

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Television has turned into a powerful medium of communication and broadcasting of information, besides having an evident function of leisure and entertainment. New formulas areinvestigated to obtain higher levels of audience shares, which reverberate in fragmented programming since [...]

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The media are making us live under the influence of information about the full gamut of risks, which are present all over the world. We perceive uncertainty according to our own culture, but we are also conditioned buy the acquired cultural sum o risk experiences, be they close or [...]

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Nowadays the tv media are in the face of an emergent phenomenon as it is the appearance of a new no organic lobby that questions the veracity of the television contents exercising at the time a strong quality control on the same ones. It is the new inspection of the interactive screen [...]

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The author of this paper defends that the mass media in which she works, stimulates for the show. The influence of television in society has reopened the discussion about educational theories and strategies. Watching TV makes people adopt a passive and alienated posture, without implication [...]

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This paper aims to study the interactions between television and social networks (what we might call social TV) in Latin America, with two goals in mind: 1) Identifying how social media is affecting television consumption, including influential factors; and 2) Quantifying these factors [...]