...Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience, or gives pleasure and delight. It can be an idea or a task, but is more likely to be one of the activities or events that have developed over thousands of years specifically for the purpose of keeping an audience's attention. Although people's attention is held by different things, because individuals have different preferences in entertainment, most forms are recognisable and familiar. Storytelling, music, drama, dance, and different kinds of performance exist in all cultures, were supported in royal courts, developed into sophisticated forms and over time became available to all citizens. The process has been accelerated in modern times by an entertainment industry which records and sells entertainment products. Entertainment evolves and can be adapted to suit any scale, ranging from an individual who chooses a private entertainment from a now enormous array of pre-recorded products; to a banquet adapted for two; to any size or type of party, with appropriate music and dance; to performances intended for thousands; and even for a global audience. The experience of being entertained has come to be strongly associated with amusement, so that one common understanding of the idea is fun and laughter, although many entertainments have a serious purpose. This may be the case in the various forms of ceremony, celebration, religious festival, or satire for example. Hence, there is the possibility...
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...Children today have an unprecedented number of options when it comes to entertainment. Since no parent can be aware of all of these options, it falls to the entertainment media to ensure that their content is suitable for young consumers." Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your point of view with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations, or reading It is a known fact that there is a great proliferation of entertainment options. There are so many forms of entertainment targeted towards children for different purposes such as educational, informative, or pure entertainment purposes. For this reason, a lot of parents find it hard to censor what their wards view and are thus in a dilemma over making choices for program view. Despite this fact, parents should be responsible, and not necessarily the media, for ensuring that the children view appropriate content. Firstly, parents are responsible for their children. The choices the children make are largely influenced by the parent’s views. As such, parents are in a solid position to ensure that at each time their children make a choice, those choices would be approved by the parent. The parent can thus note which entertainment content would be suitable for the child and which would not, thus shielding against wrong influences. Secondly, the media industry is known as a for-profit organization, and its focus will be more on maximizing share-holders’...
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...The underlying purpose of entertainment varies across societies, and at times the attitude a society takes towards its entertainment reveals its values just as much as the actual forms of entertainment do. This was certainly the case with the ancient Greeks and Romans but, as we will briefly discuss, this also holds true today. As mentioned in the module, the Greeks aspired to represent their philosophical ideals in all aspects of life, including entertainment. However, when the Romans conquered the Greeks and began to assimilate aspects of Greek culture into Roman society, many of these ideals were cast aside. Although the Greeks were proud of their culture, they also contemplated questions about humanity as a whole. In contrast, the main focus in Roman society was pride in the emperor, the gods, and the identity of the empire itself. Deep philosophical questions were ignored by the lay public, and Greek forms of entertainment were transformed into...
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...Entertainment and Media Culture Vincent Arellano October 7, 2013 Marie Loggia-Kee Entertainment and Media Culture Entertainment has evolved in many ways. Communication of events had been a difficult task to achieve in past. Radio was there to inform us of the current news, but without any visualization. Television was brought to consumers so that society can receive a visual way of getting some correspondence. The Internet was invented to give society a way to communicate worldwide. There are people in our society who go through difficult and time-consuming challenges in order to entertain us. The radio has been and still is a common way to get the news, weather, and sports. People could imagine the happenings around the world as the radio announcer would describe in detail the occurrences that would happen. A presidential speech could be described as the crowd cheers in the background. A sports event can bring the excitement level to the full potential with the emotions expressed by the announcer. The weatherman can bring exciting and detailed events created by inclement weather. Television is society’s primary source of entertainment. Without the TV society would still be imagining today’s current events as described by our radio announcer. The TV has changed our culture in so many ways. Many people gather around to view the vast media, sports events, presidential speeches, public announcements, movies, shows, and a plethora of other media shown on different networks...
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...News: Emotionless Entertainment Nobody would argue that the use of technology has dramatically increased over the past decade, let alone over the past century. Technology has impacted and changed every aspect of our lives. One piece of technology in particular transformed people’s lives: the television. Less than a century ago, people lived without the use of this revolutionary technological item. Now the vast majority of households in America has one if not numerous televisions. People own televisions for a variety of purposes. Some people watch college sporting events, teenagers may drown out the voice of their mom, and others watch news programs. Even though the television serves a multitude of different functions, these functions often...
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...Influence of Entertainment Media Claudia Atkinson 6/27/16 HUM/186 Erin Di Cesare Influence of Entertainment Media Over the years, America has grown to one of the largest producers of entertainers in the world. With entertainment playing such a large role in the lives of many, it is going to affect the American culture and our values. These affects have a greater impact on the younger generations. Entertainment media has influenced American culture in many ways. The effects that media has on our culture can be both positive and negative. Entertainment media has grown greatly over the years. Entertainment has grown from just being books and magazines to television and the internet. These changes have helped form our generations. Television is one of the most popular forms of entertainment media. Television exposes us to many different types of entertainment media including sports, news, television programing, and advertisements. These types of media can have both positive and negative influences on American culture. Sports games can have a positive impact on society because they encourage younger generations to exercise and to play sports. Negative influences on television include programing that sex, drugs, and violence. Musical Entertainment also plays a role in entertainment media. From rap to hip hop, country to rock, music influences society. Many people relate to the lyrics of the song. Songs of love, heartbreak, or expressing other feeling, music relates to...
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...Influence of Entertainment Media Over the years, there have been many ways that various forms of entertainment media, like movies, and television has influenced American culture. All you have to do is to look at how our fashion, hairstyles, even the way we speak is influenced by entertainment media. Influences for entertainment media are all around us, and whether we want to or not we are influenced by them every day. Some major American values are individuality, privacy, time, and informality. All types of media have helped people develop their individuality by letting them chose what television show or station to watch, the different and wide selection of radio stations, and the massive unlimited sites on the internet. You have the privacy to use all types of media in your home, car, or whatever place you choose to. People would have some kind of time to watch television, listen to the radio, or be on the computer because they are all offered twenty-four hours a day. All media in a way are informative, the radio, television, the internet, all have either a station or site solely for news. So, you are always being informed about something. The social influences of the entertainment media have been both positive and negative. On the positive side, I think that visual media, like television and movies, has helped to thwart racism and bring equality to both, people of color, and women. For example, women now are no longer just seen as housewives or...
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...Entertainment Media and its Influences Heidi Ross HUM186 September 29, 2013 Dr. Rose Safir Entertainment Media and its Influences Entertainment media has shaped American Culture and its values in many ways. One of the ways is that media has educated many on how to be more healthy and to have a better lifestyle. It has also made people more creative, making them realize what culture is all about. We as a society is shaped by the ever changing entertainment industry. Our lives are all about what the celebrities are doing, wearing, eating, or who they are doing. Entertainment media is everywhere. Entertainment media has many benefits and but has brought many challenges as well to American culture and has changed the way we interact with others. Throughout the many years of entertainment media, things have changed for the positive. I believe that with all of the changes, there has been mostly positive outcome from the media, but there has been some negative aspects as well. The television and radio helped to create our culture by having an impact on the way books, newspapers and magazines are designed and created. The television is one of the biggest influences on American families today. Children spend more time watching television and playing video games, therefore, spending less time interacting with others, which results in poor social and communication skills. Our family values and morals are changing with each passing day. With all of the sex, violence, and...
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...Entertainments Negative Influences Jennifer Rivera 01/25/2016 HUM/186 Entertainment has shaped American culture in various ways. In my opinion it has influenced in a mostly negative way. Our culture now is more entertained by negative drama and news. For example, we are entertained by Bruce Jenner’s sudden change of gender more than we are about all the hungry kids around the world who cannot eat. We see “entertainment” such as that and allow our kids to see and idolize that kind of behavior. We see and hear what the majority of our population likes and for the most part it is all garbage. Take the music we listen too, such as, rap, hip hop, even reggaeton, which is pretty much Spanish rap. I can go on and on about the words and lyrics in most songs that are worshipped by many. In rap, hip hop, and reggae most of the lyrics discuss how they want to have relations with and disrespect many women, smoke, drink, and shoot people. This idea has become the new thing to sing about. They make it seem like if you become this type of person, you will be a “man” or idolized. Kids grow up wanting to become this way and most likely will end up in prison because of it. Kids used to grow up into church and discipline; with manners and respect. Now that all of that has been banned from schools, we don’t know as much as we used to. All we know as a culture is our electronics and the entertainment our world now has for us. Even our video games now have very bad messages for kids. ...
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...Art vs. Entertainment We live in a world that is permeated with different inspirations and distractions. Technology is extremely advanced and it opens many possibilities for human to communicate and be entertained. Humans naturally seek and are attracted to something inspiring, beautiful, joyful or amusing which could be translated to Art or entertainment. So what defines art and entertainment? How can we tell the difference between art and entertainment? Art is inspiring, a form of pure self-expression, unique creation but not always widely accepted and entertainment is amusing, popular, widely accepted and business related. One of the many reasons why art is so important in human life is because it is inspiring, and beautiful. It contains a message which could bring your heart to warmth. For example, I would say one of the most beautiful film I have ever watched is called “The Children of Heaven, Bacheha-Ye aseman (1997)”. This film shows that being poor does not direct you to unhappiness but give you hope to move forward. It is not extravagant like big blockbuster movies but it moves you because it is pure, showing people’s pain and worries yet sending a message of hopes and we should never give up because of our misfortune. It was memorable because I could relate it to myself. Yet entertainment is more focused on how entertaining and how amusing it is. Let’s face it – we watch TV shows or movies when we are bored because they are entertaining. They are fun to fill our free...
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...Musical entertainment was also a large thing in this time period. The instruments they played varied but most commonly played were violins, drums, harps, lutes, organs, citoles, psalteries, flutes and horns. Singing was a big part of church services but unlike today they sang without the addition of instruments. Monks and priests often chanted or sang as a part of their service. It was rare a church had any instruments at all but if they did it was mostly going to be a bell or organ. Plays began to become a bigger thing starting in the church. People would act out verses from the bible so that the audience would have a better understanding on what was going on. They started being performed at in front of the church than shifted to be at the marketplace. There would be more people to watch at the market than there would be in the church. Even though many people would make the quick assumption that entertainment is very different today than it was in medieval England, it seems to appear the exact opposite. Many of the games and activities they did are earlier versions of the things we are doing today. Without these people doing the things they did we may have a very different lifestyle...
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...In this article, Mr. Spanbauer explains how computers and the web are dramatically changing the way we access and pay for entertainment. He compares this dawning digital revolution to the earlier 20th century revolution of film, radio, and television. As more and more technology becomes readily available, computer users are realizing that for the right price and with the right equipment, digital entertainment is becoming readily available from the comfort of their own homes. Since the Internet is not bound by any physical boundaries, it is quite possible that in the very near future, entertainment systems will link the Internet with televisions, stereos, PCs, and other mobile handheld devices. According to Spanbauer, the only real obstacles in the expansion of this new digital revolution are the book publishers, movie studios, and record labels who are afraid that this new method of entertainment will eventually put them out of business. Now it is possible to download music files from Web sites, Usenet newsgroups, Napster, FTP servers, and other sources. At the time this article was published, users were able to download music files from Napster at no charge, rewrite them to audio CDs, and transfer them to handheld digital audio players or play them on their PC. As a result, the recording industry trade group claimed that these practices were hurting their sales and were able to get the courts to intervene on their behalf. Just in the last few months, Napster has begun...
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...Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. February 7, 2011 The goal of introducing the Gainsharing program was to increase employee motivation so they provide outstanding customer service. The differentiating factor in regaining and keeping bigger market share was through customer satisfaction. The Gainsharing program was effective in increasing both customer satisfaction and employee loyalty. Turnover went down from 70% to 50% in one year. It also proved to be an effective motivator to the food and beverage department of Harrah’s Las Vegas. Another great feature of this program was that it wasn’t tied to the financial performance of the company and the payout would be paid regardless of operating income results. Despite its positive features, the program had some drawbacks. The objectives that needed to be achieved in order to receive the gainsharing program’s bonus were not properly fine tuned. This led to situations where teams at most properties had missed their payout just by a small margin, leading to a feeling of let down. Also, the profits were not where they should be and the economy was dragging. Most employees were thankful to have jobs let alone bonus pay outs. The feature of getting a pay out regardless of financial performance was proving to be disadvantageous to the company. The incentive plan had cost $16 million in the previous year, and that felt like an especially big number now that revenues were dropping off because of broader economic conditions. Lastly...
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...Case Analysis: Harrah’s Entertainment, Rewarding Our People Harrah’s Entertainment is one of the world’s largest casino entertainment companies. Harrahs concentrates on building customer loyalty through an optimal service, excellent products, operational excellence and technology leadership. The company decided to change its operating strategy from a more product orientated to a strategic marketing orientated company, after what products and services are based on customer data. Regarding to this the company established a bonus payout programme based on percentages improvement in customer services to maintain the motivation of its employees and lowering turnover. The objective is to implement a competitive mindset in its employees as well as to demonstrate that they are valued by the company and play an important role for the customer driven plan. The problem, which is addressed in this case is, that the created incentive plan had increased customer service metrics positively,“but not to levels that merited a payout at most properties.” The employees were told that they will receive a $200 payout regardless of the company’s operating income. However, in many properties employees did not get the incentive regardless of their hard effort, because the bonus programme was not adapted to the company’s operating income. In some properties of Harrah’s Entertainment not earn more revenue with the programme, so that they automately invalidate the value of the incentive programme and...
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...SFX Entertainment Inc. Backgrounder Eastan Croson Southern Methodist University Abstract SFX Entertainment Inc. is the largest producer of live events and entertainment that are focused primarily on the electronic music culture (“EMC”). This company has excelled in presenting leading EMC festivals and events such as Tomorrowland, Sensation, Q-Dance, Stereosonic, Electric Zoo, Decibel, Nature One, MayDay, Ruhr-in-Love, Life in Color and TomorrowWorld; many of which have over a decade of history, passionate fans and vivid social communities. This company views EMC as a global generational movement being driven by a growing community of avid millennial generation followers. SFX states their mission as enabling the movement by providing the best live experience to fans, music discovery and by connecting other fans and events. Through continuing investments in their festivals and events, adding new creative aspects and expanding into new-unexplored markets, the company has become a major player in the production of electronic dance music (“EDM”) festivals and events. The company plans to continue its growth as well as launching new and exciting events for the EMC community. Keywords: SFX Entertainment Inc., EMC, EDM, music, festivals, events SFX Entertainment Inc. Backgrounder Company History SFX Broadcasting was founded by Robert F.X. Sillerman in 1992, and spurred the consolidation of the radio business after Sillerman bought 120 radio stations under the company’s name. SFX Entertainment...
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