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Out There: People Who Live Without TV

In dissimilarity to the average American adult, who watches 3 hours of television a day, non-watchers fill their gratuitous time with a greater variety of activities. (Image credit: Dreamstime)

For many Americans the thought of life without Idiot box is akin to forgoing food, shelter or, God forbid, the Net. But about 1 to 2 percentage of Americans practice abstain from the tv set, and they might seem like strange bedfellows.

A contempo study of those who live without found that about ii-thirds fall into either the "crunchy granola set" or the "religious right, ultraconservative" camp, said researcher Marina Krcmar, a professor of communication at North Carolina'southward Wake Forest Academy. Krcmar interviewed 120 people from 62 unlike households who do not watch television, as well every bit 92 people from 35 households with Telly, and described her findings in a new volume, "Living Without the Screen" (Routledge, 2008).

Aversion to television, it turns out, is a common ground for the very liberal and the very bourgeois.

"I interviewed ane guy who was 31, single, an artist living in Boston, who saw himself equally countercultural," Krcmar told LiveScience. "The next mean solar day I had an interview with a religious woman with ten children who lived in the Midwest. These people seem similar they would disagree about almost everything, but if you ask them nearly idiot box the things that came out of their mouths were almost identical."

Why do people give it up?

Krcmar herself lives on the dark side, having given up television about 13 years ago.

"It'south just something I don't want in the home — it'southward a perpetual annoyance, similar a gnat," she said.

The motivations for most people who abandon TV fall into three categories, Krcmar found.

Some give it up to avoid exposing their families to the excessive sex, violence, and consumerism they feel are promoted onscreen. Others object to the medium itself, claiming television intrudes too much into their lives, interferes with chat and takes time away from the family. Finally, some people have a beef with the power and values of the idiot box manufacture and don't desire its influence in their homes.

In contrast to the average American adult, who watches iii hours of television receiver a day, non-watchers fill their fourth dimension with a plethora of activities.

"Not-viewers had a greater variety of things that they did with their free time than viewers did," Krcmar said. "It'due south not just that they were reading instead of watching TV. They were hiking and biking, and going to community meetings and visiting with friends. Overall, they tend to do more of everything."

Are they right?

Science does in fact support many not-watchers' worst fears nearly Television set.

"The research tends to bear witness that increased exposure to telly and violence results in greater aggression in children," Krcmar said. "That's a pretty consequent finding."

Though not all children become more than fierce, and anybody reacts uniquely, it's fair to say that what we watch affects us.

When parents did cut television out of their homes, they reported that their kids didn't bug them as much for junk nutrient and toys advertised on TV. They also said giving upward television made their children easier to manage.

"It'south sort of counter-intuitive, considering people think their kids would drive them basics without TV," Krcmar said. "But parents found that kids became very practiced at entertaining themselves and didn't need to be entertained all the time past something that was lively and agile. They didn't complain about existence bored."

Downsides of life without TV

People who had relinquished boob tube didn't written report also many downsides. Most felt satisfied getting their news from newspapers and radio, and while some people said they felt less connected to pop culture, "many adults noted that as a bespeak of pride," Krcmar said.

Even most kids in non-watching households seemed to agree with their parents that they were meliorate off without the reviled medium, though a number of kids around ages x to 13 said they resented feeling left out when other kids talk about shows and actors on tv set. By the time they reached afterwards adolescence effectually age 14 and 15, though, most had come total circumvolve and said they didn't really like TV and didn't listen doing without.

For those who want to experience some of the benefits of life without the tube, but don't feel ready to go cold turkey, Krcmar said she thinks good things can come only by setting limits.

"I recollect you can have the benefits just by having kids watch less television," she said. "Be selective near content. Yous don't go to a restaurant and permit them swallow anything on the menu. Instead you say cull something that's healthy that you would savour."

A similarly restrained arroyo to Idiot box could go a long way toward protecting kids from the downsides of TV.

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Clara has a bachelor'southward degree in astronomy and physics from Wesleyan University, and a graduate document in science writing from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has written for both Space.com and Live Science.