Many psychology experts indicate that watching a lot of violence on television can lead to observational learning of agressive behavior. How might strategies for critical viewing limit this influence?
Critical viewing is not painful viewing. [ [ Just as the listener who is knowledgeable about keyboard techniques and music theory takes a heightened pleasure in a piano concerto, so does the viewer who is knowledgeable about broadcasting take a heightened pleasure in a TV program. An art critic needs "visual literacy"; a music critic needs "aural literacy"; and a television critic needs what some analysts describe as "television literacy."
This use of the word "literacy" is, admittedly, metaphoric. There is no evidence that our comprehension of television in analogous to our comprehension
of printed words. When we read, we constantly are translating little black marks ? marks that have absolutely no intrinsic meaning ? into sounds and, by extension, into concepts, feelings, and mental pictures. TV images, on the other hand, are less abstract and more direct. They are representational; they come decoded.
The literate reader, however, does not stop with converting printed words into ideas. He/she contemplates those ideas, and carries on an internal dialogue with the author, congratulating the latter for brilliant insights or condemning him/her for outrageous opinions. The literate TV viewer carries on a similar dialogue with the creators of a program, congratulating or condemning them for everything from the sublime to the ridiculous.
At this point, reading and critical viewing, literacy and television literacy, become synonymous. Both the reader and the viewer learn to be active - to challenge, analyze, react, explore, and understand the medium, whether it's a printed page or an illuminated TV set. ] ]
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