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Peer reviewedTan, Alexis; And Others – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 1980
Presents a study of the effectiveness and believability of male and female newscasters among children and shows that newscaster sex does not effect believability ratings. Girls, however, learned more from a male than from a female newscaster. Newscaster sex did not affect retention of the newscast by boys. (JMF)
Descriptors: Audiences, Children, Credibility, Females
Download full textJones, Russell W.; And Others – 1994
Television programming has long been recognized as an effective method of educating children. This paper investigated the degree of exposure an educational children's program, Sesame Street, gave to female and male characters and the extent to which these characters were stereotypically portrayed. Children's Television Workshop produces 110…
Descriptors: Characterization, Children, Childrens Television, Content Analysis
Research Questions, Methods and Theoretical Perspectives Represented in Television Content Research.
Busby, Linda J. – 1981
The bibliography on analyses of television programing provided in this paper indicates the types of content analyses that have been conducted on television programing over much of the last 30 years. Compiled after a review of relevant books and the back issues of "Journal of Communication,""Journal of Broadcasting," and "Journalism Quarterly," the…
Descriptors: Blacks, Characterization, Children, Childrens Television
Streicher, Lawrence H.; Bonney, Norman L. – 1974
Groups of boys and girls at two summer day camps in 1970 were interviewed on the manner in which they viewed television, thought about it, and talked about it among themselves. The areas explored were: (1) the types of programs which they reported liking or disliking, (2) the types of programs which they felt informed them, (3) their attitudes…
Descriptors: Affluent Youth, Childhood Attitudes, Children, Family Life
Messner, Mike; Hunt, Darnell; Dunbar, Michele; Chen, Perry; Lapp, Joan; Miller, Patti – 1999
Sports programming plays a significant role in the media messages that American boys receive today. To explore the messages that sports programming presents to its audience, this report relates the findings of a study that analyzed a representative selection of sports programs and their accompanying commercials; also presented are findings from a…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, Advertising, Athletics
