Facing the Challenge of Television
We spend twelve years of our lives in front of the television. It shapes what we think and how we live. Media critic Kenneth Myers calls television 'the single most significant shared reality of our entire society.' This new course from Focus Radio is designed to help us think through how it's influencing us - and how we can use it positively. For home groups, cell groups, adult Sunday Schools, Christian Unions and individuals.
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'It is vital that we, as Christians, understand the
dynamics of television, the exact processes by which it has the dramatic
influence that it does and then, on back of this understanding, how we
can work for change so that we can use its influence constructively.
This new course from Focus Radio is an excellent resource to help us
do just this. I wholeheartedly commend it to you.'
Charlie Colchester, International Director, CARE
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Who is it for?
This course is designed for home groups, cell groups, adult Sunday Schools, Christian Unions, churches, colleges and individuals.
What's in it?
In eight fifty-minute sessions, 'Facing the Challenge of Television' covers:
- Creating our world
- Stealing our lives
- Causing 'truth decay'
- Distorting reality
- Junk food for the soul
- Pollution for the imagination
- Fuel for our prayers
- Points of contact for the Good News
Downloading the course
This course is available as a download (pdf file) only. The download is a single file of about 1 MB in size. You will need Adobe Reader® on your computer to view and print this course.
Useful links
mediawatch-uk – 'Actively campaigning for accountability and public participation in broadcasting.'
The Office of Communications media literacy pages: www.ofcom.org.uk/advice/media_literacy/
White Dot – the international campaign against television, www.whitedot.org
TV Turnoff web site: www.tvturnoff.org - 'Empowering people to take control of technology and not letting technology take control of them so they can live healthier lives.'
Media Research Center web site: www.mediaresearch.org
Written from a politically right-wing American perspective, this site is
very interesting for how it depicts media bias.