Television – how does it work and what are its effects?

St, Luke Secondary School, Mengo, Kampala

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Television – how does it work and what are its effects?

 

Date: Thursday 1st October 2009.

Speaker: Ronald Batte, Telecomms Engineering student, Kyambogo University.

Ronald discussed how television works and the processes involved in getting the images to our screens. This was followed by a discussion about the positive and negative effects of television – time-wasting, addiction, lack of exercise, appropriateness of content and reality of content; entertainment, news, information, knowledge and learning opportunities.