Media and the American child

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Media and the American child

George Comstock and Erica Scharrer

Elsevier, c2007

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"Revised edition of the first author's Television and the American child (Academic Press, 1991)"--Pref

Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-349) and indexes

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内容説明

Media and the American Child summarizes the research on all forms of media on children, looking at how much time they spend with media everyday, television programming and its impact on children, how advertising has changed to appeal directly to children and the effects on children and the consumer behavior of parents, the relationship between media use and scholastic achievement, the influence of violence in media on anti-social behavior, and the role of media in influencing attitudes on body image, sex and work roles, fashion, & lifestyle. The average American child, aged 2-17, watches 25 hours of TV per week, plays 1 hr per day of video or computer games, and spends an additional 36 min per day on the internet. 19% of children watch more than 35 hrs per week of TV. This in the face of research that shows TV watching beyond 10 hours per week decreases scholastic performance. In 1991, George Comstock published Television and the American Child, which immediately became THE standard reference for the research community of the effects of television on children. Since then, interest in the topic has mushroomed, as the availability and access of media to children has become more widespread and occurs earlier in their lifetimes. No longer restricted to television, media impacts children through the internet, computer and video games, as well as television and the movies. There are videos designed for infants, claiming to improve cognitive development, television programs aimed for younger and younger children-even pre-literates, computer programs aimed for toddlers, and increasingly graphic, interactive violent computer games.

目次

I. Demographics and Preferences in Media Use, with Special Attention to the Very Young II. The Extraordinary Appeal of Screen Media III. The World as Portrayed by Media IV. Effects of Media on Scholastic Performance and the Developing Intellect V. Young Customers-Creating the Modern Consumer through Advertising and Marketing VI. Television Violence, Aggression, and other Behavioral Effects VII. Learning Rules and Norms-Further Evidence of Media Effects VIII. Knowledge for What?

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