THE CURTURAL AND POLITICAL IMPACT OF TELEVISION

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THE CULTURAL AND POLITICAL IMPACT MADE BY TELEVISION


Culture:
The invention of the television and its emergency into American society in 1959 has radically revolutionized the American way of life. The original foundations of the television resort back to Ireland in 1973, where a telegraph operator, John May, discovered the photoelectric effect. He found that variations in light intensity on selenium bars show resistance which can be transmitted into electrical signals. In other words, they can be transmitted. The earliest broadcasts were in Berlin for the Olympic Games in 1936 and 1935 in Paris. The first American broadcast was in 1939 from New York. It is hard to pinpoint who actually invented the television, because many men made significant contributions.
Two defining moments in the realm of television technology was the invention of color and digital television. A study conducted in 1998 indicated that 98% of U.S. households owned at least one tel...