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Download full textCalvert, Sandra L.; And Others – 1997
Children's television programs broadcast on Saturday mornings (7:00am-12:00pm) on CBS, NBC, ABC, and Fox networks were examined for gender and ethnic representation. For a sample of programs during the 1995/96 television season, raters counted the number of males and females, and the number of Caucasians, African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans,…
Descriptors: Childrens Television, Ethnic Groups, Mass Media Role, Minority Groups
Aidman, Amy – 1994
This paper addresses the role of quality age-appropriate television programming in preschoolers' lives. The paper describes a developmental investigation of preschoolers' knowledge of polite behavior routines and their modeling of host-quest behaviors from a special episode to the television program "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood." The…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Childrens Television, Cultural Influences, Mass Media Role
Peer reviewedBruce, Douglas R. – Critical Studies in Media Communication, 2001
Uses the violence of "The Road Runner" cartoon series as a starting point for a mythico-rhetorical analysis of the message system contained in the cartoon. Explores how the cartoon re-enacts the myth of Sisyphus in the context of the post-World War II technological boom. Discusses insights into the meanings of cartoon violence, and into…
Descriptors: Cartoons, Childrens Television, Elementary Education, Mass Media Effects
Peer reviewedRoberts, Susan E. – Early Child Development and Care, 1993
"Lift Off" is a new, innovative children's television series produced by the Australian Children's Television Foundation that has been well received by young children, parents, critics, and educators. One typical half-hour program is profiled. Questions the claims that "Lift Off" will enrich the lives of a whole age cohort,…
Descriptors: Childrens Television, Early Childhood Education, Educational Television, Foreign Countries
Long, Marilee; Steinke, Jocelyn – 1994
A qualitative study analyzed images of science and scientists in children's educational science programs on television to determine whether they conveyed the images found in other media. Four episodes of each of four 30-minute, non-animated programs ("Beakman's World" broadcast on CBS, "Bill Nye, The Science Guy" shown on…
Descriptors: Childrens Television, Content Analysis, Educational Television, Elementary Education
Hake, Karin – 1996
When there is something we want to know, we usually ask experts, but rarely do we ask children about their own childhood. This paper looks at children's perceptions and responses in relation to programming on children's television. Topics include: (1) what are children's programs?; (2) when do children become adults?; (3) criteria for quality; (4)…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Children, Childrens Television, Early Childhood Education
Lohr, Paul, Ed.; Meyer, Manfred, Ed. – 1999
This book is a collection of selected articles (published in the 1990s) from "TelevIZIon," a specialized journal of the "Internationales Zentralinstitut fur das Jugend--und Bildungsfernsehen," that take up problems relating to media research and present national and international developments in the field of children's and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Childrens Television, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Netzhammer, Emile C. – 1991
A study analyzed the potential rhetorical impact of AIDS-related television programming directed at preadolescents. The four programs selected for the study were all submitted in the children's television category of the Peabody Awards competition for the 1987-1988 season. They are (1) an episode of the PBS children's documentary series…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Childrens Television, Health Promotion, High School Students
Austin, Erica Weintraub; And Others – 1989
This study examined the effects of family communication environment and parental mediation of television content on third-, sixth-, and ninth-graders' perceptions of realism and similarity of television content and identification with television characters. Subjects, 627 northern California students and 486 of their parents, responded to episodes…
Descriptors: Audience Response, Childrens Television, Communication Research, Communication Skills
Spangler, Lynn C. – 1989
Students in a children and television course wrote their "television autobiographies" (that is, their relationship with TV). Forty-three students at a mid-size upstate New York college participated. The autobiographies corroborated the results of previous quantitative and qualitative research, but added a personal, more in-depth look at the…
Descriptors: Audience Response, Case Studies, Childrens Television, Higher Education
Peer reviewedKuptana, Rosemarie – Educational Media International, 1992
Describes the development of the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation (IBC) in response to a perceived threat by English language television to the Inuit culture and use of the Inuktitut language. Political issues are discussed; programing is described, including educational children's programs; and the use of technology to preserve cultural values is…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Childrens Television, Cultural Activities, Cultural Influences
Carlsson, Ulla, Ed.; von Feilitzen, Cecilia, Ed. – 1998
This yearbook compiles information on research findings on children and youth and media violence, as seen from the perspective of the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child. The thematic focus of the yearbook is on the influence of children's exposure to media violence. Section 1 of the yearbook, "Children and Media on the…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Children, Childrens Rights, Childrens Television
Cameron, Catherine Ann; Wigmore, Barbara A. – 1996
Teachers are challenged by contradictory demands on curricular time. The social needs children bring to school sometimes collide with basic literacy instruction priorities. This research addressed concerns about television violence via a project that encouraged children to log their television viewing and write in daily journals their perceptions…
Descriptors: Childrens Television, Creative Writing, Extracurricular Activities, Foreign Countries
