Are we really classified in to two different types of television viewers? The two are ritualized viewers for habitual use and use media as a diversion. The second is instrumental or non-habitual use, useing media to acquire information. I believe that almost everyone has to be a little of both. Does it differ between genders is one gender more prone to use media in a habitual or non habitual manor? Everyone watches TV for different reasons, some to relax, as entertainment, information, ect. When a few people in our class claimed to be non habitual users and simply rely on TV for informational purposes such as watching the news i find it simply hard to believe. At least within our generation of students i find it very difficult to believe that American students are claiming to be non habitual TV users. College life is so stressful i don't think that i know one person who doesn't like to sit in front of the TV for an hour or so and just relax and fade in to a world not their own. With the current trends mainly relating to media its hard to believe that these students dont go to class the next day to gossip about what happened on Jersey Shore or talk about whos going to Hollywood on American Idol, and so on and so on in the reality TV land that our generation seems to belong to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMa5F8JMli8&feature=related
An Example of some American family TV watching patterns LOL
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