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Peer reviewedBroome, Jeanette; Fuller, Laurie – PTA Today, 1993
Examines television's impact on children, discussing how much television children watch, what children watch and how it influences their world view, how parents dispel mass media misconceptions and fears, and whether children would get better grades if they watched less television. Suggestions for making television an educational resource are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Educational Television, Elementary Secondary Education, Mass Media Role
Thoman, Elizabeth, Ed. – 1995
This program provides a new framework and approach for breaking the cycle of blame surrounding violent imagery in the culture and promotes an informed and rational public conversation about the topic. The goals of the program are to: (1) reduce exposure to media violence; (2) change the impact of violent images that are seen; (3) locate and…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Mass Media, Mass Media Effects, Mass Media Role
