Television is the favorite entertainment of our society. It is currently being replaced by managing the internet with its applications and social networks, but we can still find an increasingly expanded television grid with a diversity of programs, for all types of public and highly current.
Can we reaffirm that television entertainment has to be at odds with education or the values that they can transmit to us? It is a statement that can be highly questioned, since according to various interviews most people believe that television has a bad influence on the population, and then the internet and social networks.
Television as a means of communication
The values try to be transmitted so that they are understood by different cultures. At least this type of hypothesis has been questioned and a homogenization in all its communication has been concluded.
Everything depends on the country of originThere are places where an exhaustive control is made of what children can see. In some countries parents may limit viewing hours to slightly more than hours, and in others their viewing hours have doubled.
Television it is profiled so that its display is especially consumed by very select people. Teen girls choose to watch shows or movies where characters they like appear and where you can gossip. Teenage boys are looking for entertainment, entertainment, sports and especially humor programs, a much more attractive variety as consumers.
What values does television generally offer us?
For our society, television is no longer a correct means of communication. Many dismiss television with not very cautious values, because being something that transmits and engages you can thus have a viewer easy to transform. Behind all this there is a manipulation controlled by political groups and media companies.
Among these unorthodox values We find consumerism, meritocracy, escapism, where you have a tendency to shirk responsibilities and avoid the really big problems. Hedonism, where its purpose is to hook and give pleasure and also incite gambling.
But all of this can be much more selective putting us to envision something much more selective. We cannot forget the advertising world, where there are many companies that try to create an aesthetic quality in their advertisements and recreate many of them surprise, shock and originality. From this point of view, We cannot avoid the publicity issue.
TV series and movies
TV series for young people have changed a lot in recent years. Only those are designed to reach a large number of people, and for this they must take care of their scripts meticulously. Within their scripts they are already trying create realistic and humorous scenes for entertainment. But they are not neglecting the value of friendship, companionship, caring for the environment, human values and commitment to our society.
For children animated series take center stage and they reflect a large part of those values that we have to take care of. There will always be series with great communication and engagement, some more than others and we can see it as an example in Dora the explorer, where we were able to highlight all the good qualities that this series has.
Animated and non-animated films also convey their full potential. They are films very studied and very careful so that they can be viewed many times and all their positive messages can be studied. We can see it in the Disney movies with very prominent values such as respect, family, friendship, love, caring for the environment ... all of them like example to educate children in values.
We must not forget that there are also other alternatives for the education of our children through television, documentaries about animals they teach them love and respect for nature, educational programs with workshops to increase your creativity or even the technique of some video games so that they learn something positive.