Handbook of children and the media /
Dorothy G. Singer, Jerome L. Singer, [editors].
- 2nd ed.
- Los Angeles : Sage, 2012.
- xvii, 803 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The popular media as educators and socializers of growing children. How children use the media: The use of television and other screen media / The role of reading for children and adolescents in a digital age / Children and new technologies / Digital media and youth : games, internet, and development / Social networking, social gaming, texting / Cognitive functions and school-readiness skills: Attention, comprehension, and the educational influences of television and other electronic media / Electronic media as incidental language teachers / Media and the child's developing imagination / Creating vigilance for better learning from television / Effects of prosocial media content on children's social interactions / Some hazards of electronic media : fears, aggression, and sexual attitudes: The media and children's fears, anxieties, and perception of danger / Effects of violent media on aggression / Prosocial, antisocial, and other effects of recreational video games / Research on sex in the media : what do we know about effects on children and adolescents? / Paul J. Wright, Neil M. Malamuth, Ed Donnerstein. -- Personality, social, and cultural variations: Media and identity development / Television's gender-role images and contribution to stereotyping : past, present, future / Media and the family / Television, children, and multicultural awareness : comprehending the medium in a complex multimedia society / Children's media use in a global perspective / Health issues and the media: Children and advertising : content, comprehension, and consequences / Children, adolescents, drugs, and the media / Food marketing : targeting young people in a toxic environment / Popular music : the soundtrack of adolescence / George Comstock, Erica Scharrer -- Roger Desmond -- Todd Tarpley -- Kaveri Subrahmanyam, Patricia Greenfield -- Yong Zhao, Wei Qiu, Naiyi Xie. -- David S. Bickham, Marie Evans Schmidt, Aletha C. Huston -- Alice Ann Howard Gola, Lara Mayeux, Letitia R. Naigles -- Patti M. Valkenburg, Sandra L. Calvert -- Jennings Bryant, Wes Fondren, J. Alison Bryant -- Marie-Louise Mares, Emory H. Woodard. -- Joanne Cantor -- Brad J. Bushman, L. Rowell Huesmann -- Craig A. Anderson, Douglas A. Gentile, Karen E. Dill -- Nina Huntemann, Michael Morgan -- Nancy Signorielli -- Robert Kubey, Smita C. Banerjee, Barna William Donovan -- Joy Keiko Asamen, Gordon L. Berry -- Cecilia von Feilitzen. -- Dale Kunkel, Jessica Castonguay -- Victor C. Strasburger -- Katherine Battle Horgen, Jennifer L. Harris, Kelly D. Brownell -- Donald F. Roberts, Peter G. Christenson. pt. I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. Forging the media environment for the future : the media industry and its technology: The economic structure of the commercial electronic children's media industries / The children's television business : programming and structure / The role of research and evaluation in educational media / Hazards and possibilities of commercial media in the schools / J. Cory Allen -- Alison Alexander -- Michael Cohen -- Nancy A. Jennings, Ellen A. Wartella. pt. II. 24. 25. 26. 27. Policy issues and advocacy: Children and media policy : historical perspectives and current practices / Television broadcaster practices : compliance with the children's television act / Child and parent responses to the age-based and content-based television ratings / Safeguards for youth in the digital marketing ecosystem / Public policy and private practice : government regulations and parental control of children's television use in the home / Parents and other adults : models and monitors of healthy media habits / Media literacy and media education / Children's advocacy groups : a history and analysis / Dale Kunkel, Brian L. Wilcox -- Karen Hill-Scott -- Bradley S. Greenberg, Lynn Rampoldi-Hnilo -- Kathryn C. Montgomery -- Amy B. Jordan -- Marjorie J. Hogan -- Mami Komaya -- Laurie A. Trotta. pt. III. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35.
This revision examines the social and cognitive effects of new media, such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Skype, iPads, and cell phones, and how children are using this technology. The authors summarize the latest research on children and the media and suggest directions for future research. This book also provides students with a deliberate examination of how children use, enjoy, learn from, and are advantaged or disadvantaged by regular exposure to television, new technologies, and other electronic media.