And I believe that this will be true and long as watchable media is still viable. People will always crave more and the "Impluse to go on watching" will always live in humans as it is their nature. The construction of the flow theory in television is not only true in media but in all of life. Humans are constantly questioning and wanting answers which is why this model works so well.

I don't think that there is an ideological metaphor for the power of television. I think that any media consumption on a screen is very powerful, especially in the modern age we have seen it tear families and people apart.

I think that this statement is very important because now that we have recognized that it is a problem what are we doing to solve it? the answer is nothing. Content just keeps getting easier and shorter to consume and people keep consuming it

I think that this statement can now be applied with a modern lens and can speak to peoples current attention spans. Apps like Tik Tok and instagram have implemented ways of consuming hundreds of different types of content within just a few minutes of being on the app. I Truly Believe that cable television was the last time humans had a attention span that made it so they could sit through a whole broadcast on T.V

For some people, this unpredictable style of t.v has been something that people are fond of and keep coming back too. Fans of a series often try to search for and uncover outages from the show just because they crave more of that unpredictability that a certain show has. A stellar example of this would be the Comedy "The Office".

This is another important part about movies and T.V genres. Books kind of exist independently of the social political climate whenever you are reading the book. Movies and shows often comment or reflect the time that they were made in or are suppose to represent. So people unconsciously take their personal views and watch the movie through their personal lens.

A lot of movies success does rely on its ability to relate to the current times. Often times movies will make jokes that will make sense in the current climate or at the time of their release. The same goes for genre, if a certain genre or style of movie/show is popular at the time you will see a lot of movies with the same sort of theme. An example of this would be the explosion of marvel super hero movies in the 2010's

I have taken a literary English class and I can draw comparisons between literary criticism and television criticism. Mainly on story progression because the way the stories are portrayed are very different.

This is still true to this day, think of any car commercial you've ever seen, there's always a happy family going to their kids soccer practice or something

This statement makes sense, imagine how hard it would've been to come back from a war and the whole dynamic of family and society is different due to new technology

so it was seen kind of as a status thing?

This is the double edge sword of T.V you can apply it to amplify your life but also it can cause loneliness and drive a wedge in your social life.

This is something that is still debated today, how tv and media affects families and relationships