Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Television

Bachelor's
Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: arts
Qualification: BA
Kind of studies: full-time studies
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
University website: www.napier.ac.uk
Television
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound. The term can refer to a television set, a television program ("TV show"), or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment and news.
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One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
Kurt Vonnegut, Cold Turkey, In These Times, May 10, 2004
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For intellectual authority, the appropriate version of Descartes's cogito would be today: I am talked about, therefore I am.
Zygmunt Bauman, The Individualised Society (2001)
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First radio, then television, have assaulted and overturned the privacy of the home, the real American privacy, which permitted the development of a higher and more independent life within democratic society.
Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind, p. 58
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