Televison Culture Codes with John Fiske

John Fiske proposes that television culture helps to shape the traditional semiotic account of how the television world makes, or at least try to make meanings that will provide society a service to it's most dominant interests. With relation to the hit television series Sex and the City, we can see many different ways in which dominant interests are conclusive to our society alone.

Fiske says that television culture provides various codes. These codes are "links between producers, texts, and audiences, and are the agents of intertextuality through which texts interrelate in a network of meanings that constitutes our cultured world."

I feel that all of the symbolism that is produced in television shows such as Sex and the City would be more predominately apparent if people actually tried to structualize and deconstruct what they believed to be the pure pleasure that society finds in those television shows.

The show is based on four women, all of which are friends (Carrie, Sam, Miranda, and Charlotte).

Our culture comes from all that we know, or what we see others do. When we watch television our mind sometimes enters into new realities and helps us develop a better understanding of what it means to be "cultured person."

We identify with television characters like those in Sex and the City becomes it is what the producers, directors, and writers think what some people's ideas of cultural involvement is.

Carrie says in a line of a season 3 episode "Is it smarter to follow our heart or our head." I am sure that we ask ourselves these questions at least once in our life time. It's code. The television show helps to project codes to its viewers so that it provides a more intertextual meaning.

What we know is what we feel...culture is what we are.