There's a TV section.
https://www.lucieslist.com/guides/screen-time-kids-research/...It's kind of funny that MTV brought about a collective panic with regard to the content kids were exposed to, but looking back, it and Americas Funniest Home Videos were the start of today's endless algorithmic hellholes. MTV was an endless stream of narratively disconnected images largely detached from the audio. AFV was an endless stream of people falling and getting pranked.
From the founder of buzzfeed: That scrambling of cultural content was starting to happen in the mid-1980s, when Jameson was writing. Peretti's favorite example of this phenomenon is MTV. Whereas variety shows and televised concerts in the 1960s and 70s provided context and structure to the music they presented, MTV instead gave viewers a rapid succession of wildly different sounds and visual accompaniments to those sounds, without any logic connecting one video to another. That, in Jameson's framework, serves to confuse viewers, harm their ability to use culture to build identities, and increase the risk of people failing to build identities altogether — making them "schizophrenic" in his terminology.
"The rapid fire succession of signifiers in MTV style media erodes the viewers sense of temporal continuity," Peretti writes. "To use the same words that Jameson uses to describe schizophrenic experiences, the images that flash across the MTV viewers' retina are 'isolated, disconnected, discontinuous material signifiers which fail to link up into a coherent sequence.'" (As Wolters notes, those rapid fire MTV signifiers are "Not so unlike those GIF-loaded posts on BuzzFeed.")
https://www.vox.com/2014/5/20/5730762/buzzfeeds-founder-used...