Television and mass media representation: contractual problems with the viewer

Abstract

Nowadays, when our society runs towards the «global village», as it was seen by M. Mc Luhan, every place in the planet is connected to any other like a rhizome (remember the concept by G. Deleuze and f. Guattari) and it´s impossible to think that the human being may get in touch with his environment directly through his senses, knowing the real world at «first-hand». So, the function of the mass media is essential; simply because of a physical reason, the man is not able to be in praesentia in every world event. For instance, television replaces direct sensory perception of events for a «lead» perception, controlled by one or more power groups, those ones that own the media, which turn reality into a homogeneous construction ready to be watched. Television messages gets into a a way of representation, that makes the world open to the viewers..