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Title:
Handbook of children and the media
Author:
Singer, Dorothy G.
ISBN:
9780761919544

9780761919551
Publication Information:
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©2001.
Physical Description:
xvii, 765 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Contents:
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
Abstract:
From Internet censorship to levels of television exposure, the effects of mass media on children is one of the most widely debated issues in our society. Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from around the world, the Handbook of Children and the Media is a comprehensive analysis of the field for students and scholars. This book summarizes the current scope of research on children and the media, suggests directions for future research, and attempts to provide students with a deliberate examination of how children use, enjoy, learn from, and are advantaged or disadvantaged by regular exposure to television and other electronic media. --From publisher's description.
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