Children and the Formal Features of Television
Title | Children and the Formal Features of Television PDF eBook |
Author | Manfred Meyer |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | 336 |
Release | 2013-06-21 |
Genre | Psychology |
ISBN | 3111641082 |
Television and Children
Title | Television and Children PDF eBook |
Author | Aimee Dorr |
Publisher | SAGE Publications, Incorporated |
Total Pages | 170 |
Release | 1986-04 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Aim[ac]ee Dorr examines children's interaction with television, emphasizing the child's active role in making sense of television. She discusses specific examples of programmes watched by children; the sense they make of advertising and programming; what children know about the medium; what a formal feature is; what effects television can have; how effects are studied and what literacy curricula look like.
Television and Child Development
Title | Television and Child Development PDF eBook |
Author | Judith Page Van Evra |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 254 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
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The material presented in this second edition provides a current and complete summary and synthesis of what is known about television's role in, and impact on, children's cognitive and social development. Unlike other books on television or child development, this text directly combines communication and psychological perspectives for a more comprehensive and accurate look at children's television experiences. The integration of information from these diverse sources addresses the complexity of the interactions among child, content, technological, and contextual variables, and provides a broader conceptualization of both theoretical and practical issues. In short, this volume carefully considers the complex and significant interplay between other forces in a child's life with the television viewing experience. Providing updated research findings in the major areas and including changing trends in television content and viewing patterns, this new edition offers new sections on technology and its influence and an entirely new chapter on television's impact on exceptional and high risk children. Also included are research findings on the many other media uses now available to children besides television, as well as those that affect children's use of television--VCRs, cable programs, computers, the Internet, video games, and virtual reality--in addition to a chapter on intervention and critical viewing strategies.
Children's Understanding of Television
Title | Children's Understanding of Television PDF eBook |
Author | Jennings Bryant |
Publisher | New York : Academic Press |
Total Pages | 392 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
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Children and Television
Title | Children and Television PDF eBook |
Author | Norma Pecora |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 411 |
Release | 2009-03-04 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1135251398 |
This seminal volume is a comprehensive review of the literature on children's television, covering fifty years of academic research on children and television. The work includes studies of content, effects, and policy, and offers research conducted by social scientists and cultural studies scholars. The research questions represented here consider the content of programming, children's responses to television, regulation concerning children's television policies, issues of advertising, and concerns about sex and race stereotyping, often voicing concerns that children's entertainment be held to a higher standard. The volume also offers essays by scholars who have been seeking answers to some of the most critical questions addressed by this research. It represents the interdisciplinary nature of research on children and television, and draws on many academic traditions, including communication studies, psychology, sociology, education, economics, and medicine. The full bibliography is included on CD. Arguably the most comprehensive bibliography of research on children and television, this work illustrates the ongoing evolution of scholarship in this area, and establishes how it informs or changes public policy, as well as defining its role in shaping a future agenda. The volume will be a required resource for scholars, researchers, and policy makers concerned with issues of children and television, media policy, media literacy and education, and family studies.
Children and Television
Title | Children and Television PDF eBook |
Author | Michael E. Manley-Casimir |
Publisher | Praeger |
Total Pages | 336 |
Release | 1987-10-05 |
Genre | Education |
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Since the mid-1970s a shift in perspective has occurred on the relationship between TV and young viewers. Researchers, parents, teachers, policymakers, and consumer advocate groups have shown increased criticism of televisions's role as social educator, babysitter, agent for mass consumer socialization, and perpetrator of questionable social values, morals, and mythical human behaviors. Educators intersted in understanding the complex and wide-ranging contrversies about the influence of television on children will find much in this edited collection to clarify their understanding of the empirical research, educational practice, and national policy issues raised by the relationship between TV and children. The empirical and theoretical studies in Part I explore the interactive relationship between TV and the child viewer. In opposition to the widely held view that the child is a passive recipient of TV information, these studies show that children's background knowledge and their cognitive and experimental skills influence how they interpret TV content, symbolic form, and ultimately, its influence on what kind of learning takes place. The effects of reciprocal relationships of TV violence, commercial advertising and reading ability are investigated in other chapters in this section. Part II moves to practical educational questions and presents approaches to curriculum design for the teaching of critical and literate viewing skills. Innovative curricula, based on principles of liberal education, which encourage active and critical viewing, are spelled out in detail. Part III compares the policies of governments in industrialized nations in assuring the quality of children's television. An annotated list of studies and position papers published from 1975 to 1983 concludes this work.
Fake, Fact, and Fantasy
Title | Fake, Fact, and Fantasy PDF eBook |
Author | Maire Messenger Davies |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 255 |
Release | 2013-11-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1136687130 |
Based on a study examining the meaning of the term "media literacy" in children, this volume concentrates on audiovisual narratives of television and film and their effects. It closely examines children's concepts of real and unreal and how they learn to make distinctions between the two. It also explores the idea that children are protected from the harmful effects of violence on television by the knowledge that what they see is not real. This volume is unique in its use of children's own words to explore their awareness of the submerged conventions of television genres, of their functions and effects, of their relationship to the real world, and of how this awareness varies with age and other factors. Based on detailed questionnaire data and conversations with 6 to 11-year-old children, carried out with the support of a fellowship at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, the book eloquently demonstrates how children use their knowledge of real life, of literature, and of art, in intelligently evaluating the relationship between television's formats, and the real world in which they live.