The purpose of this study was to investigate various textual characteristics of popular children television shows. More specifically, researchers examined both the quantity and quality of question asked (i.e., question training). Furthermore, several readability components among the different shows (e.g., narrativity, syntactic simplicity,…

This study examined children's media use (i.e., amount of television and Internet usage) and relationships to children's perceptions of societal threat and personal vulnerability. The sample consisted of 90 community youth aged 7 to 13 years (M = 10.8; 52.2% male) from diverse economic backgrounds. Analyses found children's television use to be…

Young people's reactions to two prize winning programs of the Prix Jeunesse 1970 were evaluated in seven different countries: Germany, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Norway, United States, and Yugoslavia. This report of the evaluations first overviews the plan of the research, discusses the juries which conferred the prizes, describes the two…

A brief preview of a recent study which is attempting to determine if the data presented in Television in the Lives of Our Children'' is still valid in 1970. (AK)

This report, the fourth in a series of six reports on television advertising and children, describes attitudes toward children's television advertising held by industry executives, government officials, and consumer critics. The accuracy with which each group perceives the positions of the other parties involved is also assessed. Data were…

A study of the impact of "All in the Family" on children concentrates on why they watch, how well they understand the plot, most and least admired characters, and information conveyed about standards of adult and family behavior. (LS)

A critique of an article which identified characteristics of children who watch television. (BD)

A study was devised to investigate the possible impact of fictional television violence on children with reference to short and long term effects. Thirty-four children ranging in age from five to six were selected from a sample of children who had seen a series of violent television programs and were divided into two groups according to high and…

Investigates the relationship between the moment-to-moment occurrence of selected visual and auditory formal features of a prosocial cartoon and two aspects of information processing (visual attention and comprehension). Subjects, 128 White kindergarten and third- to fourth-grade children, were equally distributed by sex and age and viewed the…

This bibliography lists 32 documents submitted to the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) which relate to research on television. Listings are broken into five categories: (1) overviews; (2) children and television; (3) project reports; (4) cable television; and (5) bibliographies. Articles are listed alphabetically within each…

Describes the implications of research designed to focus on within-commercial differences, use a variety of response measures, employ a non-reactive viewing situation, measure behavioral as well as verbal responses, and provide data that creative people can understand. Action and story line were found to be the most important aspects that hold…