a essay on The influence of Television in our life.
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When television first came to India on September 15, 1959 was named as “Doordarshan”(DD) the national television network of India, nobody had ever thought that within a span of less than 50 years, it would cover more than 70 million homes giving a viewing population of 480 million. Television constitutes an important medium widely used to disseminate information to its viewers. It has the unique feature of combining audio and visual technology and serves multiple purposes of entertainment, information, and education. There is no doubt that television has a great influence on children from a very early age itself and it does have an effect on children’s cognitive and social development.(1) Television has the potential to generate both positive and negative effects. An individual child’s developmental level is a critical factor in determining whether the medium will have positive or negative effects.(2) Excessive TV viewing contributes to an increased incidence of obesity and has deleterious effects on learning and academic performance.(3) Time spent with various media may displace other more active and meaningful pursuits such as reading, exercising, or playing with friends. Childhood and adolescence is a time of opportunity and risk.
Television is an inescapable part of modern culture. We depend on TV for entertainment, news, education, culture, weather, sports—and even music, since the advent of music videos.
With more and more ways of viewing TV available we now have access to a plethora of both good quality and inappropriate TV content. In this crowded television environment, the key is to provide young children with a guided viewing experience and to model and teach them the critical thinking skills they need to be active, engaged viewers.
Young children believe that television reflects the real world. To not see people like themselves—in race, ethnicity, or physical ability, for example—may diminish their self-worth, and not seeing people different from themselves may lead to a distorted view of the world as well. Beyond the simple presence or absence of diversity, it’s important to look at how different people are portrayed.