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Peer reviewedBishop, Jay – International Journal of Early Childhood, 1984
Reports a study of the ways young children view television. The more common style involves uncritical absorption which seems debilitating to the child, while the other style provides the viewer with skills for discovering meaning within the program and beyond. Suggestions are given for parents to encourage the more critical style of watching.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Critical Thinking, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Influence
Morris, Barbara R. – 1977
This summary of a 3-day informal gathering hosted by the Children's Broadcast Institute in October 1977 for producers, programmers, writers, researchers, advertisers, and consumers, includes introductory remarks by Dr. Fred B. Rainsberry, brief bibliographies of the speakers and workshop participants, the agenda, and summaries of presentations by…
Descriptors: Childrens Television, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society)
Malik, M. F. – 1978
Focusing on changes in the minds of the audience, this study of the impact of television programs provides a general analysis of the perceptual spectrum of the television audience and its values, preferences, and attachments to the content of television programs. Influences are identified and cued to the development of programming, and findings of…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Audiences, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis
Download full textPayne, David E. – 1993
Comparison of data gathered in the late 1970s to data gathered in the early 1990s indicates that while communication researchers remain convinced that effects of intercultural mass media exist, they also acknowledge that no clear, useful theoretical framework exists. Data were analyzed, compared, and reported in the late 1970s from three…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context, Foreign Countries
What's on? You, Your Family and the Tube = Qu'y a-t-il au programme? Vous, votre famille et la tele.
Theilheimer, Ish, Ed.; Eisner, Kathy, Ed. – Transition, 1995
This issue of the Canadian journal "Transition," in French and English language versions, examines the impact of television viewing and programming on family life. Major articles in this issue are: (1) "Virtual Unreality: Television, Families and Communities in the Nineties" (Alan Mirabelli), describes the isolating influence…
Descriptors: Children, Commercial Television, Eskimos, Family Life
Gomez, Guillermo Orozco – 1986
This paper makes a critical exploration into the core epistemological assumptions of mainstream television effects research and explains why the mainstream study of the cognitive impact of television on children suffers from two reductionist tendencies, i.e., television is understood by most researchers to be solely a technical medium, and most…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Beliefs, Children, Cognitive Development
