Summary of the seminar (25/07/08)

On Friday, we had a first seminar about media.
Our group consists of seven members and discussed about the topic.

-summary-
We discussed about three points which the text suggests as a task.
First of all, we talked about 'television viewing habits'.Each of the members introduced the research of their country's habits. After the few minutes' discussion, we found the common problems of TV viewing habits of children. Recently, the children tend to spend too much time on watching TV. That's because they have little opportunities to play outside and the lack of communications with their friends and family. Then, we moved on to the next points about 'television images'.We all agree with the opinion that television influence on the young people.And it depends on the case whether the influence is good or bad. And the last discussion is that 'the future for television and television viewers'. The importance of media literacy is the same idea among all members. We suggested the children should be taught the media literacy in school.

-In my point of view-
The habits of viewing television are different from each country, but the problems about the television and media are quite similar to all the countries in which the members came from. I think the television will be taken place of by the internet in the near future. However we should be more attentive about the internet because of its passive aspects.

-My attitude to the seminar-
I tried to be talkative and did my best. However, it was not enough. Next time, I'll try to express my ideas (not only the agreement with others but the opinions of my own.)
And we should be more careful of time management.