NotPercy203 2012, How TV Ruined Your Life - s01e01 - Fear, video recording, YouTube, viewed online 4 April 2014, <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQBwNyJDHsw>.
As Kling mentions in 'What Is Social Informatics and Why Does It Matter?, ICTs only benefit sections of society, not the whole (Kling 1999). How TV Ruined Your Life points out how TV has been used by those in power to control and manipulate society, showing how ICTs are political. One of the reasons this works so well is because it played on human biology and our ingrained reactions to threats and fear. This makes us realise the effects our biology and history have on how ICTs affect society in a noticeable way. One of the reasons TV has such an affect on us is its pervasiveness, with most people owning at least one TV. TV has been presented as a necessary item, allowing those in power, both those in government and in media, to control a large section of society.
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