During my fifteen minutes of prime-time television watching last week, I saw part of an episode of Two and a Half Men. In the episode, Charlie (played by Charlie Sheen) Googles himself and finds an attack website put up by one of his ex-girlfriends, and contributed to by many others. Meanwhile, Alan (played by Jon Cryer) accidently sees his ex-wife on his son's webcam, leading to complications.
So if this is what I see when I turn the TV on for fifteen minutes, might I assume that digital culture is all over television (and all over our culture)? This might seem a stupid question to those (the great majority of Americans) who watch more than fifteen minutes of primetime TV a week. Or maybe they don't notice because it's so ubiquitous.
OK, I admit I saw another ten minutes the next evening (and I admit I've started watching TV while I'm eating my dinner). I saw a little bit of CSI:Miami. As anyone who watches that program (and its ilk) knows, there's plenty of digital tricks there too. But frankly, I find it obtrusive and gimicky--as annoying, for me, as the show's star, David Caruso.
How long before we're watching Charlie Sheen surf the web from our own computer monitor? Or have snuff shows like CSI:Miami popping up while we're browsing for other things?
Posted by jeb at December 20, 2004 11:05 PM | TrackBackHi Jeb,
I really liked your photo of your shadow.
I'm just fishing around trying to see what real bloggers are doing and maybe link with some of them. I've only recently begun to entertain the possibility that I am a blogger, too. Mine seems so different from anything I've run into.
A thousand years ago--the 60s--I was an English teacher. It always surprises me that people are still majoring in it and obviously loving it.
Roll on.
Charley Kempthorne
Posted by: Charley Kempthorne at January 5, 2005 5:42 AM