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Children and Television
Images in a Changing Socio-Cultural World

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334 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
The main focus of this book is to identify the social and cultural impact of television on the psychosocial development of children growing up in a constantly changing multicultural society. The book analyzes major media organizations and projects policies, practices and research directions for the future.
Gordon L Berry
Introduction
Television as a Worldwide Cultural Tapestry

 
 
PART ONE: TELEVISION AND THE DEVELOPING CHILD IN A MULTIMEDIA WORLD
John P Murray
The Developing Child in a Multimedia Society
Catherine N Doubleday and Kristin L Droege
Cognitive Developmental Influences on Children's Understanding of Television
Marguerite Fitch, Aletha C Huston and John C Wright
From Television Forms to Genre Schemata
Children's Perceptions of Television Reality

 
Patricia Marks Greenfield et al
The Program-Length Commercial
A Study of the Effects of Television/Toy Tie-Ins on Imaginative Play

 
Dorothy G Singer
Creativity of Children in a Television World
James A Anderson and Milton E Ploghoft
Children and Media in Media Education
Gordon L Berry
The Medium of Television and the School Curriculum
Turning Research into Classroom Practice

 
 
PART TWO: TELEVISION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CHILD'S WORLDVIEW
George Comstock
The Medium and the Society
The Role of Television in American Life

 
Bradley S Greenberg and Jeffrey E Brand
Cultural Diversity on Saturday Morning Television
Edward L Palmer, K Taylor Smith and Kim S Strawser
Rubik's Tube
Developing a Child's Television Worldview

 
Richard L Allen
Conceptual Models of an African-American Belief System
A Program of Research

 
 
PART THREE: TELEVISION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CHILD'S UNDERSTANDING OF DIVERSE POPULATIONS
Sherryl Browne Graves
Television, the Portrayal of African Americans, and the Development of Children's Attitudes
Haney Geiogamah (Kiowa) and D Michael Pavel (Skokomish)
Developing Television for American Indian and Alaska Native Children in the Late 20th Century
Darrell Y Hamamoto
They're So Cute When They're Young
The Asian-American Child on Television

 
Federico A Subervi-Vélez and Susan Colsant
The Television Worlds of Latino Children
Nancy Signorielli
Television, the Portrayal of Women, and Children's Attitudes
Peter M Kovaric
Television, the Portrayal of the Elderly, and Children's Attitudes
Elaine Makas
Changing Channels
The Portrayal of People with Disabilities on Television

 
 
PART FOUR: FUTURE PERSPECTIVES ON PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN
Dale Kunkel
Policy and the Future of Children's Television
Gordon L Berry
Public Television Programming and the Changing Cultural Landscape
Horst Stipp
The Challenge to Improve Television for Children
A New Perspective

 
Geraldine Laybourne
The Nickelodeon Experience
Joy Keiko Asamen
Epilogue
What Children Learn from Television and How They Learn It

 

Gordon L. Berry

Joy Keiko Asamen

Dr. Asamen received her doctorate in educational psychology, specializing in counseling psychology. She came to Pepperdine University after five years in psychiatric research at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Brentwood and the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute. Her teaching interests are in areas of research methods and data analysis. She is a licensed psychologist in California. More About Author

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