I’ve added a few new pages to tvSmarter.com, hope you’ll check them out.
Playing versus TV
http://www.tvsmarter.com/documents/playing.html
Young Children (babies & toddlers) and TV
http://www.tvsmarter.com/documents/young.html
My Democracy page had gotten too unwieldy, so I divvied it up into:
Democracy & TV
http://www.tvsmarter.com/documents/democracy.html
Civil Society & TV
http://www.tvsmarter.com/documents/civil.html
Propaganda, the News & TV
http://www.tvsmarter.com/documents/propaganda.html
Covert Propaganda & TV
http://www.tvsmarter.com/documents/propaganda2.html
Torture & TV
http://www.tvsmarter.com/documents/torture.html
Please let me know if I should change and/or add anything or any other suggestion.
October 27, 2009 at 11:54 am
Greetings!
Just came across this fascinating look at how we clever humans respond to advertising and marketing with our “Automatic Mind” when we are not paying attention. On first glance, it seems that many people are responding to the book as a way of helping to combat being manipulated, and influenced. Which makes me feel that it would be a great book to absorb in coming to terms with TV’s intent of influencing their viewers…
I am going to order it and will look forward to discussing this more.
The Psychology of Persuasion: http://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Robert-Cialdini/dp/0688128165
November 1, 2009 at 1:04 am
Hi Chris
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts about it. Also
I added it to my wish list too.
On the one side you’ve got the average person going about
their business, and on the other side you’ve got an army
of brilliant marketers, and researchers using the incredible
power of science to develop more and more sophisticated and
effective methods of manipulation to have their way with
us average people.
It hardly seems fair.
Terry