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The handbook of children, media, and development /

Every day children spend a significant amount of their waking time watching and interacting with media. Once a mass experience that was generally one-way and observational, media have increasingly become more interactive. Cell phones, DVDs, plasma monitors, and wireless interfaces add increased cont...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
Other Authors: Calvert, Sandra L., Wilson, Barbara J.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.
Series:Handbooks in communication and media.
Subjects:
Mass media and children.
Child development.
Children's mass media.
Médias et enfants.
Enfants > Développement.
Médias pour enfants.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
Entwicklungspsychologie.
Kind.
Massenmedien.
Massamedia.
Kinderen.
Ontwikkelingspsychologie.
Electronic books.
Electronic resource.
Handboeken (vorm)
Online Access:View fulltext via EzAccess
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Aletha C. Huston
  • Introduction: Media and Children's Development / Sandra L. Calvert and Barbara J. Wilson
  • pt. I. Historical, Conceptual, and Financial Underpinnings of Media
  • 1. Historical and Recurring Concerns about Children's Use of the Mass Media / Ellen Wartella and Michael Robb
  • 2. Business Models for Children's Media / Alice Cahn, Terry Kalagian and Catherine Lyon
  • pt. II. Media Access and Differential Use Patterns
  • 3. Media Use Across Childhood: Access, Time, and Content / Ronda Scantlin
  • 4. Children, Race, Ethnicity, and Media / Bradley S. Greenberg and Dana E. Mastro
  • 5. Gender, Media Use, and Effects / Stacey J.T. Hust and Jane D. Brown
  • 6. Media and the Family / Alison Alexander
  • pt. III. Cognitive Effects of Media: How and What Children Learn
  • 7. Attention and Learning from Media during Infancy and Early Childhood / Rachel Barr
  • 8. Media Symbol Systems and Cognitive Processes / Kaveri Subrahmanyam and Patricia Greenfield
  • 9. Learning from Educational Media / Heather L. Kirkorian and Daniel R. Anderson
  • 10. News, Reality Shows, and Children's Fears: Examining Content Patterns, Theories, and Negative Effects / Stacy L. Smith, Katherine M. Pieper and Emily J. Moyer-Guse
  • pt. IV. Social Effects of Media
  • 11. Media Violence and Aggression in Youth / Barbara J. Wilson
  • 12. Prosocial Effects of Media Exposure / Marie-Louise Mares, Edward Palmer and Tia Sullivan
  • 13. Make-Believe Play, Imagination, and Creativity: Links to Children's Media Exposure / Dorothy G. Singer and Jerome L. Singer
  • 14. Parasocial and Online Social Relationships / Cynthia Hoffner
  • 15. Fear Responses to Media Entertainment / Patti M. Valkenburg and Moniek Buijzen
  • pt. V. Health Effects of Media
  • 16. Media Use and Childhood Obesity / Elizabeth A. Vandewater and Hope M. Cummings.
  • 17. Media, Body Image, and Eating Disorders / Kristen Harrison and Veronica Hefner
  • 18. Media and Advertising Effects / Brian Young
  • 19. Adolescents and Media Messages about Tobacco, Alcohol, and Drugs / Dina L.G. Borzekowski and Victor C. Strasburger
  • pt. VI. Media Policy and Interventions
  • 20. The Children's Television Act / Sandra L. Calvert
  • 21. Regulating the Media: Sexually Explicit Content / Joah G. Iannotta
  • 22. Media-Related Policies of Professional Health Organizations / Marie Evans Schmidt, David S. Bickham, Amy Branner and Michael Rich
  • 23. The Rating Systems for Media Products / Douglas A. Gentile
  • 24. Parent and School Interventions: Mediation and Media Literacy / Jennifer L. Chakroff and Amy I. Nathanson.

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