Many families, including my own, have busy work and school schedules that cause difficulties to spend time and experiences together. One of my ideas of “home” in pop culture is watching TV with my parents. The idea of being on the couch, sharing laughs or quotes from our favorite films with my parents were very nostalgic and bring a sense of comfort. There are several outlets I plan to explore with this lense of media that apply to my family experiences such as the types of shows or movies we watched, when what other families spend time together doing, the history of the technology of televesion and when they were implemented into American homes, and how Asian/Pacific Islander families viewed television together.
articles on history of television, media consumption by country, surveys on families with televisions vs without