Television and Shared Experience

A Church article with View Comments posted 30 December 2009.
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I was listening to NPR’s Laura Sydell yesterday as she and her guests were discussing media trends over the past 40 or 50 years as they connect to shared experience. Old televisionOne guest on the program was arguing that the development of global communications technology means that next-door neighbors may have few shared cultural experiences. In essence, by enabling a large fraction of the population to seek the television news that it wants to watch, the music that it wants to hear, and the political ideas that it wants to think, there are fewer cultural touchstones that we share in common.

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