Response to JMC 201 Television Group

Overall, the group's presentation was highly effective in terms of presenting a comprehensive history of television, its programming, and the prevailing theories on how it affects the people who view it. The group chose to facilitate many discussions on the nature of television programming, which tended to feel like they ignored some possible arguments of even the fundamental nature of television as a tool for society. A point that was brought up and dismissed was that of technological convergence in the arena in television. Hillary mentioned this when she presented the slide on television content on mobile or other platforms, but then seemed to dismiss it as a linking of platforms with mere televised content as the glue. When instead, we can see that televised content that would normally have only been broadcast on television, is instead being broadcast over the web alone. Web channels were mentioned, but felt like an afterthought, as no credence or factual evidence was given for their rise, ignoring socieital factors or incidents like the writer's strike that led to the explosion of web content.