The popular media as educators and socializers of growing children -- The history of children's use of electronic media / Free reading : implications for child development / The use of television and other film-related media / New forms of electronic media : the impact of interactive games and the Internet on cognition, socialization, and behavior / Attention, comprehension, and the educational influences of television / Television and the child's developing imagination / Television as incidental language teacher / Creating vigilance for better learning from television / Prosocial effects on children's social interactions / The media and children's fears, anxieties, and perceptions of danger / Effects of televised violence on aggression / Media violence in cross-cultural perspective : a global study on children's media behavior and some educational implications / Research on sex in the media : what do we know about effects on children and adolescents? / Sex in the media : theory, influences, and solutions / Mass media and identity development / Media and the family / Television's gender role images and contribution to stereotyping : past, present, future / Television, children, and multicultural awareness : comprehending the medium in a complex multimedia society / Children and television advertising / Popular music in childhood and adolescence / Children, adolescents, drugs, and the media / Television food advertising : targeting children in a toxic environment / Television and morality / Forging the media environment for the future : the media industry and its technology -- The economic structure of the commercial electronic children's media industries / Broadcast networks and the children's television business / Serving the very young and the restless : children's programming on public television / PRIX JEUNESSE as a force for cultural diversity / Cable television : gateway to educational resources for development at all ages / Children, the Internet, and other new technologies / Hazards and possibilities of commercial TV in the schools / The role of research in educational television / Policy issues and advocacy -- Children and media policy / Industry standards and practices : compliance with the Children's Television Act / Child and parent responses to the age-based and content-based television ratings / Digital kids : the new on-line children's consumer culture / Public policy and private practice : government regulations and parental control of children's television use in the home / Parents and other adults : models and monitors of healthy media habits / Media literacy and critical television viewing in education / Children's advocacy groups : a history and analysis