Do talk shows cultivate adolescents’ views of the world? Purpose and Scope The purpose of this prolonged experiment was to evaluate the effects of exposure to television talk shows that deal with lesbian or gay male relationships, transsexuality, and tattooing. This study shows how television program formats make their way around the world and influence adolescents all over. If one type or genre of programming is successful or popular in one culture, another place will …showed first 75 words of 1352 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1352 total…ties between talk shows and different sorts of television programming and the largely controversial topic of television violence. The next study or research to come out on this subject could benefit from trying to tie these two areas of television together and see what outcome comes about. I also believe that if more research is done on this subject we will begin to understand the desensitizing that is happening to so many people these days.