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Originally Posted by Lioness  Try Google/Yahoo/Ask.com. Plenty of articles and blogs will come up under TV Brain Damage, Television Effects on Brain, etc. You will probably find links to whatever scientific studies have been done on the subject. You can google the people/organizations who have done the studies and see what their credentials are. |
I keep finding basically the same thing in every article. And most articles talk about TV and good quality movies together, while I am not interested in the effect of TV adds or news or stuff like that, cause I don't watch it, I am only interested in the negative effects of watching dynamic action on a screen, regardless of the content.
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Originally Posted by Lioness To see if TV could be damaging to YOUR brain, you might try one of Steve's 30 day trials and go without TV for a month and see what effect it has on you personally. |
That's what I'm doing. Starting today
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Originally Posted by ginkgo Exercise is good for the brain and eating junk food (like candy bars and soft drinks) is bad for the brain. So if you exercise while watching a movie at home, that is good for the brain. Eating junk food while watching a movie is bad for your brain and may make you fat.
Does being on a forum make you violent? It would depend on the forum. So the movie that you watch can affect you. I feel that watching the Oscar winning movie, Gandhi, is good for the brain. |
You are drawing the attention to common sense, while I am clear on that topic. Of course the content of the movie does matter (weather it's an multiple Oscar-winning movie, or a series like Battlestar Galactica that was even featured at the United Nations for its powerful message regarding human rights, humanity, war and politics), but many of the articles I've read suggest that regardless of the content, movies are damaging per se, because of the way they stimulate your brain passively. The brain of the viewer enters a state just as if he was drugged or sleeping, or like staring at a blank wall.
Watching a conference or a speech is totally different, cause you just see the stage and one man speaking. That's no different from watching one person on stage in real life. Now if the camera kept focusing on the movement of his hands, and then on his left eyebrow, and then on the audience, and then showed you a rotating eagle-eye view of the entire location, etc - then (setting aside the educational value), it would have the same negative effects as a movie. Do you agree?
Sometimes I wanted to re-live the great scenes from certain series episodes, but I already knew everything that happens by heart, so I just put the movie on and wondered around the house, listening to the audio / exercising / etc. I got 85% of the enjoyment without even watching the screen. That, of course, is just like reading a book (or listening to an audio book). Your imagination is at work.