Consuming Environments (Communications, Media and Culture Series)

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Whether we adore it, hate it, or use it just to pass the time, most adults in the USA are watching more television than ever, up to four hours a day by some estimates. Our devotion to commercial television gives it unprecedented power in our lives.

Advertisers and television executives want us to spend as much time as we will be able to in front of our sets, for it is get entry to to our brains that they buy and sell. Yet an important effect of television is also one that no one intends-accelerated destruction of the natural environment.

Consuming Environments explores how, with its portrayals of a world of simulated abundance, television has nurtured a culture of consumerism and overconsumption. The average person in the U.S. consumes more than twice the grain and ten times the oil of a citizen of Brazil or Indonesia. And people in less industrialized countries suffer at the same time as their resources are commandeered to fortify comfortable lifestyles in richer nations.

The usage of detailed examples illustrated with images from actual commercials, news broadcasts, and television shows, the authors demonstrate how ads and programs are put together in complex how one can manipulate viewers, and they offer specific how one can counteract the effects of TV and overconsumption’s assault on the environment.

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