Friday seminar

In my seminar group today I got new information from my friends about

Television viewing habits around the world

• TV viewing habits in USA, almost children 2-11 years old watching TV more than 2 hours/day and do their homework only 1 hours/day, so now it 's a problem of USA because children don' t control time to watching TV.


• The popular TV program in USA is talk shows 'Oprab'and news is NBC, CNN.


• In Vietnam, housewife and retired people are the group of people that more watching TV than other groups


• In my country(Thailand) children watching TV 1 in 5 of their wake up time and children who live in city more watching TV than rural children.


• The positive effects of TV viewing habits are entertainment, help to learn about other cultures and family member of all ages have an opportunity to spend time together.


• The negative effects of TV viewing habits are violent programs have effect to children are aggressive and children have 'buy me syndrom' because chidren start begging them to buy a toy or snacks, it 's a chain problem , if parents buy snacks for their children and they 've a bit nutrition, a lot of sugar and fat , their children will fat and get a lot of weight.

Television images

• Sometimes TV images real, sometimes it's not real for example advertisement usually exaggerate and use graphic for their products.


• TV images can influence the viewer think.

The future for television and television viewers

• In my group, we think media literacy is very important and it should teach in schools.


• The main purpose of TV is to inform and to educate. Other purposes is to sell, to show reality and sometimes to help people escape reality.


• In my country use TV to remote learning, the students that live in rural and far from the city, they can get knowledge from school center in the city.


• Over the next twenty years, may have many channels and TV program may better than now.