### telecom:

Television
* All television is children's television
  - educational television when kids are watching
  - televisions sold in the United States use leaded glass in their picture tubes
* Many television shows depict robots as friendly servants.
* Rise in capacity of delivery systems Fall in cost of making and distributing programs.
* Some television has inadequate spatial resolution
* affects children's health, their physical fitness and nutrition
  - people physically
* allows facts to be transmitted almost instantaneously across continents
  - the viewers to make up their own minds
* also can provide children with an understanding of common values and right and wrong
  - outpaces the print media in terms of popularity, especially in the urban areas
  - portrays violence against men as normal - it happens all time
  - tends to be a solitary, or at least isolating, form of social activity
  - uses radio signals to send pictures and sound
* are almost all still analog
  - as large as freezers used to be
  - commonplace within many households
  - large and loud
  - power hungry when off so are computers, especially
  - very different from computer monitors
* broadcast medium.
* business whose purpose is gathering audiences.
* can also adversely affect school work.
* can also play a key role bringing literature to life
  - an educational role when it comes to sex
  - provide kids with an understanding of common values and what's right and wrong
  - be educational, but is generally known for entertainment
  - become a tool to help define personal values and beliefs
  - connect people to information from all over the world
  - cripple a child's self worth
  - emphasize image over substance
  - expand a child's education, or it can have negative effects
  - greatly influence the election of a national leader on the basis of image
* can have a powerful influence on people
  - strong influence on children
  - sudden loud noises, such as a gun shot or loud music
  - motivate, change attitudes, and whet the appetite
* close-up medium.
* closeup and sometimes more subtle medium.
* combines audio and video for information and entertainment
  - sight, sound, motion, and emotion, which no other media can do
* contributes to homogenisation of cultures
  - obesity
* crucial part of many people's lives.
* desensitizes the child to violence in general and to the pain of others.
* directly contributes to a violent society.
* drives the masses of eyeballs.
* encourage the exchange of ideas and information that stimulate the economy.
* fast and accurate way of sending people everywhere news, and joy.
* form of mass media that revolutionized communications.
* has a brimming impact on the popularity of names
  - detrimental influence on education
  - huge impact on children
  - long history in Indianapolis
  - major impact on how children grow up
  - way of making everything appear smaller than real life
  - certain characteristics that distinguish it from the other agents of socialization
  - components
  - effects on children that are positive
  - many types of sync signals, with different purposes
  - sight, motion and emotion
  - the opportunity to change people's lives by holding up a mirror
  - to a great extent taken the place of hands as a medium for game playing and fantasy
  - two dimensions to work with, sight and sound
* have a lower refresh rate than most computer monitors
  - vertical resolution and horizontal resolution
* high fixed-overhead business.
* homogenizes reality, and computers create it.
* horizontal medium.
* impacts children on many levels - physically, emotionally, socially, and mentally.
* includes audios
  - sections
  - videos
* influences children's perception of the values of behavior that is common and acceptable
  - the quality of reading material a child selects
* is able to bring the world into millions of homes
  - about to change from analog to digital broadcasting
  - actually a stimulant for some individuals
  - addictive and usually the biggest deterrent to reading
* is also a tool of growth
  - primarily an analog medium
* is an almost universal form of entertainment
  - egalitarian dispenser of information
  - example of multimedia
  - important medium for national advertisers
  - instrument of kingship
  - integral part of modern communications
  - intimate medium
  - intrusive medium, reaching customers in their homes
  - unconsciously controlling device
  - another broadcast medium
  - appliances
  - arguably the most influential media ever invented
  - based on photoelectric technology
  - comprised of many inventions or related technologies
  - considered to be the most authoritative, influential and believable media
* is consumed in vast quantities around the world
  - created by people
  - dangerous to people who are too trustworthy of what they hear and see
  - designed to herd viewers into viewing patterns
  - devices
  - electronic mediums
  - for seeing and hearing
  - free entertainment
  - furniture
  - government controlled and it broadcasts six hours a day
  - king of political communications media
* is located in apartments
  - bars
  - bedrooms
  - cabinets
  - houses
  - living rooms
  - motels
  - machines
  - notorious as a monster that consumes everyone and everything around it
* is often a reflection of what society as a whole considers to be parenting heroes
  - popularity described as 'a window on the world'
* is one of the fastest growing industries
  - greatest stress reducers known to man, second only to skeet shooting
  - main sustainers of our addiction to superficiality and triviality
* is one of the most complex technological devices known to man
  - effective means of advertising
  - powerful and pervasive influences on children
  - ubiquitous communicative mediums in contemporary culture
* is part of a child's world
  - modern mediums
  - perhaps the most obvious form of digital communications signals
  - primarily an entertainment medium
  - probably the most powerful influence on public opinion
  - real time one-way audio and video
  - really radio waves carrying both sound and pictures
  - representation, but what it represents are other forms of communication
  - seen as the dominant source of national and world news
  - self-regulating, with a hierarchy of self censorship
  - shot with different types of cameras
  - simply a medium for either formats to be played on
  - so pervasive that many homes have four or more sets
  - social control
  - supposed to mirror society
  - telecommunication systems
  - television to most people whether it is free or paid for through dish or cable
* is the Kazakhstan citizenry's primary source for both information and entertainment
  - art of illusion
  - biggest and most important advertising medium in the world
  - combination of sight and sound and movement
  - contemporary, publicly accepted record of faces and voices
* is the dominant force in our media culture and an important part of children's lives
  - medium for advertising to local markets
  - source of information in most countries around the world today
  - flagship for American culture
  - future and has always been the future of communications
  - great equalizer of age groups
  - means by which most people get their news
  - mediator of choice
* is the medium of choice to deliver political messages
  - where consumers are most likely to learn about products
* is the most effective method of mass communication
  - important media in the world, and everything else distant second
* is the most influential image and information machine of American society
  - medium - there are three major terrestrial networks
  - subject in the creation of public opinion
  - pervasive cultural force in history
* is the most powerful and evil drug in the history of the world
  - ubiquitous medium in the history of the world
  - known medium in the universe
* is the most powerful medium in the world
  - the world has ever seen
  - public and powerful means of mass communication
  - successful medium of manipulation ever
  - oldest and most popular way to watch movies
  - opiate of the people
  - powerful combination of sound and images
  - primary source of information and entertainment in the Arab world
  - primary, but by no means exclusive, medium for national advertising
  - principal form of advertising, followed by newspapers and radio
  - quintessential short-term medium
  - real world
  - single greatest threat to communication and intimacy within a family
  - technology of choice for America's children and American homes
* is the ultimate source of truth
  - tool to convince people of a Truth
  - tv
* is used for watching
  - to improve the quality of instruction and to reach new learners
* is, arguably, the dominant communication medium in the world today.
* isolates people from the environment, from each other, and from their own senses.
* locally produced sport network.
* main source of communication when it comes to the new also.
* major part of people's lives.
* mass medium, but there are many other kinds of mass media
* medium of real-time consumption and as such, has a voracious appetite for content.
* medium that has transcended racial lines
  - seems to have all the answers
  - whose existence serves the sole purpose of delivering viewers to advertisers
* mental illusion.
* mere source of entertainment which can be used positively or abused negatively.
* new medium and one of the most effective means of transferring information.
* non-physical activity.
* now carries news broadcasts to millions of people throughout the world.
* often reflects the bias and stereotypes of the real world
  - spotlights people spared from the wrath of a tornado
  - uses dogs as substitutes for wolves, due to easier accessibility and training
* one-way media.
* parent for many children today.
* particular medium in a particular state of affairs.
* passive entertainment medium
* perpetuates gender stereotypes because it reflects dominant social values.
* pervasive influence in our society and in our homes.
* plays a central role in our society
  - significant role in the lives and socialization of children
* plays an important and powerful role in today's society and culture
  - part in people's lives
* plays an important role in either stifling or promoting certain opinions
  - the education and development of our young people
* poor conductor of odor.
* powerful medium that reaches nearly every household in America
  - tool for selling or promoting toys and products
* raster medium.
* remains the world's most powerful and pervasive communications medium.
* seems to be the best source of violence that is prevalent in society today.
* service-industry that has generated deep transformations in our social life.
* shapes our knowledge and understanding of our culture and of the broader world
  - peoples perceptions of many fields including law, medicine, law enforcement
* space where people go to exchange ideas about the political process.
* storytelling medium.
* strongly influences children's beliefs and attitudes.
* stunts the healthy growth of a child's brain.
* teacher, and for many younger children, a babysitter.
* teaches that some people are more significant than others.
* technology everyone feels at home with.
* tells stories that people want to hear.
* terrific way to show people how something works, or what happened and why.
* thief of money.
* threat to children's inner stability.
* useful medium to convey messages to urban as well as rural people.
* viewing by preschool children is associated with obesity.
* virtual parade of neurotic people, and they are presented as real life.
* visual medium.
* visually driven medium.
* watching affects children's ability to learn
  - also exposes children to high doses of violence and materialism
+ Boxer shorts: underwear
  * Others just have an elastic waistband and can be pulled on or off like briefs. They can be made in different colors or patterns. Television displays more men in boxer shorts than in other underwear.
+ Radio
  * Television also uses radio signals to send pictures and sound. Radio signals can start engines moving so that gates open on their own from a distance. Radio signals can be used to lock and unlock the doors in a car from a distance.