Americans spend 2 hours and 51 minutes daily watching movies and TV, amounting to 19% of their waking hours. Media consumption is perceived as mere background noise or a distraction, but it holds significant meaning according to evidence.
What we see on screen has this way of influencing our perception of the world, which makes sense because the average American spends 2 hours and 51 minutes watching movies and TV each day. That’s a whopping 19 percent of our waking hours. Walt Hickey is a data journalist and author of a new book called You Are What You Watch. In it, Walt makes a case for how much film and television shapes us as individuals and as a society, far beyond what we give it credit for.
You Are What You Watch
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