1st Annotation

Condry, John. “What Is Television.” The Psychology of Television, Routledge, 2009, pp. 1–5. 

    Condry’s work The Psychology of Television analyzes the television timeline, where the television was first brought into society and its quick acquisition from American families; following the Great Depression from 1929 to 1933 and so on. This book goes deep into the psychological effects of television listing the major impact on people’s social skills. Condry’s book focuses on the evolution of the television, heavily analyzing sales and experiences using graphs or previous experiments, in my opinion the one flaw Condry possesses is not listing the positive influences of televisions in American households. The writing style is pretty simple, reliable, and easy to understand with compacted citations presented in the article. The purpose of this book is to make readers understand the history of television and how television is weakening life. Condry states “In every society into which television has been introduced, there has been a subsequent decrease in the time devoted to socializing… the introduction of television in a country increases the total amount of time devoted to mass media.” The purpose of this book is to enforce readers to understand that television is a social force; Condry’s views highlight the negatives that are rarely mentioned when learning or watching TV.