UN-TV

So far in sociology I've learned that it is not your typical academic study in school. It makes you think outside the box and do things that you would never do unless it was given to you as an assignment. Last week we had to "do nothing" which I blogged about as being one of the hardest things I had to do, but this experiment we had to do this week was hard as well. The Un-TV experiment had a few steps: Watch any show and look at the technical effects, watch a show in silence, watch the news in silence, watch someone else watching tv, and watch the tv without turning it on. After doing the whole experiment it showed how much tv has an impact on our lives. We literally turn into zombies. The amount of our blinking even decreases. When the sound is off, I did find that you become more aware of the show because you want to know what is going on. It was a great challenge, and another way to learn sociology hands on.