Handbook of Children and the Media

Examines the social impacts of the media, popular media as educators and socializers, future directions of the media industry and technology, and policy issues and advocacy groups.

Autorentext

Dorothy G. Singer is Senior Research Scientist in the Psychology Department at Yale University. She is also Co-Director, with Jerome L. Singer, of the Yale University Family Television Research and Consultation Center and a Fellow of Morse College at Yale. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. Her research interests include early childhood development, television effects on youth, and parent training in imaginative play. She has written 19 books (some translated into Japanese, Dutch, Turkish, Italian, and Thai) and over 160 articles. Her latest books with Jerome L. Singer are Handbook of Children and the Media, Make-Believe: Games & Activities for Imaginative Play, and Imagination and Play in the Electronic Age. A recent book, Children's Play: Roots of Reading, co-edited with E. Zigler and S. Bishop-Josef, was selected for the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title list. Dr. Singer received the Distinguished Scientific Contribution to the Media Award from Division 46 of the American Psychological Association in 2004.

Klappentext

Cyber-bullying, sexting, and the effects that violent video games have on children are widely discussed and debated. With a renowned international group of researchers and scholars, the Second Edition of the Handbook of Children and the Media covers these topics, is updated with cutting-edge research, and includes comprehensive analysis of the field for students and scholars. 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 new technology. This book summarizes the latest research on children and the media and suggests directions for future research. This book also attempts to provide 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.

Zusammenfassung
Fully revised and updated edition of Singer & Singerâ²s popular book. A cutting edge title - as any work on children and the media has to be - including explorations of the impact of iPods, iPads, Kindle, and smartphones.

Inhalt

01 - The Use of Television and Other Film-Related Media - George Comstock
02 - The Role of Reading for Children and Adolescents in a Digital Age - Roger Desmond
03 - Children, The Internet, and Other New Technologies - Todd Tarpley
04 - Digital Media and Youth: Games, Internet and Development - Kaveri Subrahmanyam, Patricia Greenfield
05 - Social Networking, Social Gaming, Texting - Yong Zhao, Wei Qiu, Naiyi Xie
06 - Attention, Comprehension, and the Educational Influences of Television - David Bickham, Aletha Huston, Marie Schmidt
07 - Television as an Incidental Language Teacher - Alice Howard, Lara Mayeaux, Letitia Naigles
08 - Television and the Child s Developing Imagination - Patti Valkenburg, Sandra Calvert
09 - Creating Vigilance for Better Learning From Television - Jennings Bryant
10 - Effects of Prosocial TV Content on Children s Social Interactions - Marie-Louise Mares, Emory Woodard
11 - The Media and Children s Fears, Anxieties, and Sleep Disturbances - Joanne Cantor
12 - Effects of Media Violence on Aggression - Brad Bushman, L. Rowell Huesman
13 - Prosocial, Antisocial, and Educational Effects of Recreational Video Games - Craig Anderson, Karen Dill, Doug Gentile
14 - Research on Sex in the Media: What Do We Know About Effects on Children and Adolescents - Stacy Smith, Ed Donnerstein, Neil Malamuth
15 - Media and Identity Development - Nina Huntemann, Michael Morgan
16 - Television s Gender Role Images and Contribution to Stereotyping: Past, Present, Future - Nancy Signorielli
17 - Media and the Family - Robert Kubey, Smita Banerjee, Barna Donavan
18 - Television, Children, and Multicultural Awareness: Comprehending the Medium in a Complex Multimedia Society - Joy Asamen, Gordon Berry
19 - PRIX JEUNESSE as a Force for Cultural Diversity - David Kleeman
20 - Children and Media in a Global Perspective - Cecilia Von Feilitzen
21 - Children and Television Advertising - Dale Kunkel, Jessica Castonguay
22 - Children, Adolescents, Drugs, and the Media - Victor Strasburger
23 - Food Advertising: Targeting Children in a Toxic Environment - Katherine Horgen, Kelly Brownell, Jennifer Harris
24 - Popular Music: The Soundtrack of Adolescence - Donald Roberts, Peter Christenson
25 - The Economic Structure of the Commercial Electronic Children s Media Industries - J. Allen
26 - The Children s Television Business: Programming and Structure - Alison Alexander
27 - The Role of Research and Evaluation in Educational Media - Michael Cohen, Joseph Caliguro
28 - Hazards and Possibilities of Commercial Media in the Schools - Ellen Wartella, Nancy Jennings
29 - Policies and Regulations Regarding Children s Exposure to the Electronic Media - Dale Kunkel, Brian Wilcox
30 - Industry Standards and Practices: Compliance with the Children s Television Act - Karen Hill-Scott
31 - Child and Parent Responses to the Age-Based and Content-Based Television Ratings - Bradley Greenberg, Lynn Rampoldi-Hnilo
32 - Safeguards for Youth in the Digital Marketing Ecosystem - Kathryn Montgomery
33 - Public Policy and Private Practice: Government Regulations and Parental Control of Children s Television Use in the Home - Amy Jordan
34 - Parents and Other Adults: Models and Monitors of Healthy Media Habits - Marjorie Hogan
35 - Media Literacy and Critical Television Viewing in Education - Mami Komaya
36 - Children s Advocacy Groups: A History and Analysis - Laurie Trotta