commencée enfin!

WOW,10 heb ik je eindelijk weer getraceerd!!Ik moest wel
precies zijn: geen martienile.waarben JE..ofmartien etc..nl of zo; maar even acuraat! Dat moet jij nu ook zijn zo dicht bij een franse versneller: opdat het geen koppensneller wordt...BLIJ dat je het zo naar het zin hebt, meiske! Wat een uitdaging, 21.00uur ophouden met werken: doen ze dat allemaal, boeit het zo, kun je de proefopstellingen(?) niet eerder verlaten, begin je al met een Einsteinse-tijdslimiet; hoe laat sta je dan (weer)op en heb je nog last van studentikoze demonstraties? Wij zijn een week geleden nog op jouw AlmaMater geweest; daar was een onderhoudende Culturele Zondag, heel leuk voor zulke oudjes als wij(lijken te !!) zijn! Let je wel een beetje op avalanches en ook op enge franse womanizers (want die kun je niet mee naar huis nemen...!) Slaap maar lekker op niveau, net als je oompje, die al in diepe rust is (op het niveau: aupingping--geintje!)
Zoentje, annelies.

Gefeliciteerd!!!
Hier weinig nieuws, nog steeds niet echt resultaten, maar weer nieuwe ronde nieuwe kansen maandag.

Liefs, Irene

Lieve Martien

Toen we het onlangs over de Amerikanen hadden die steeds meer naar de kerk gaan en waar de economie ook steeds beter gaat [normaal neemt het kerkbezoek af bij toenemende economische welvaart] hadden we het ook over de invloed van de massa media. Hieronder copieer ik dat hele verhaal en ik ben benieuwd naar je mening.

The Influence of Mass Culture
In centuries past, family and teachers were the dominant, and sometimes the only, influence on children. Today, however, the influence exerted by mass culture (the broadcast media, newspapers, magazines, and popular music) often is greater.
By age eighteen the average teenager has spent 11,000 hours in the classroom and 22,000 hours in front of the television set. He or she has done perhaps 13,000 school lessons, yet has watched more than 750,000, commercials. By age thirty-five the same person has had fewer than 20,000 school lessons, yet has watched approximately 45,000 hours of television and seen close to two million commercials.
What effects does mass culture have on us? To answer, we need only consider the formats and devices commonly used. Modem advertising typically bombards the public with slogans and testimonials by celebrities. This approach is designed to appeal to emotions create artificial needs for products and services. As a result, many people develop the habit of responding emotionally, impulsively and gullibly to such appeals.
Television programmers use frequent scene shifts and sensory appeals such as car crashes, violence, and sexual encounters to keep audience interest from diminishing. Then they add frequent commercial interruptions. This author has studied the attention shifts that television viewers are subjected to. In a dramatic program, for example, attention shifts might include camera angle changes; shifts in story line from one set of characters (or subplot) to another, or from a present scene to a past one (flash back) or to fantasy: and shifts to “newsbreaks,” to commercial breaks, from one commercial to another, and back to the program. Also included are any shifts of attention that occur within commercials. I found as many as 78 shifts per hour, excluding the shifts within commercials. The number of shifts within commercials ranged from 6 to 54 and averaged approximately 17 per fifteen-second commercial. The total number of shifts came out to over 800 attention shifts per hour, or over 14 per minute. A century ago, even uneducated Americans were accustomed to listen attentively to political debates lasting five or six hours. And the speakers used bigger words and longer sentences than are common today. What many people today perceive to be dullness in teachers, text-book authors, and work assignments may actually be their own deficiency. Television viewing (and other modern entertainments) may have prevented them from developing a mature attention span and accepting normal rhythms of life.
Finally, mass culture promotes values that oppose those held by most parents and teachers. Play is presented as more fulfilling than work, self gratification as more desirable than self-control, and materialism as more meaningful than idealism. People who adopt these values with out questioning them may end up sacrificing worthy goals to their pursuit of “a good time” and lots of money.

Extract from ‘Beyond Feelings’, Vincent Ruggiero