Table of Contents

Introduction - Dorothy G Singer and Jerome L Singer
Why a Handbook on Children and the Media?
PART ONE: THE POPULAR MEDIA AS EDUCATORS AND SOCIALIZERS OF GROWING CHILDREN
Children′s Uses and Gratifications
History of Children′s Use of the Electronic Media - Haejung Paik
Free Reading - Roger Desmond
Implications for Child Development
Uses of Television and Other Film-Related Media - George Comstock and Erica Scharrer
New Forms of Electronic Media - Kaveri Subrahmanyam et al
The Impact of Interactive Games and the Internet on Cognition, Socialization and Behavior
Cognitive Functions and School Readiness Skills
Attention, Comprehension and the Educational Influences of Television - David S Bickham, John C Wright and Aletha C Huston
Television and the Child′s Developing Imagination - Patti M Valkenburg
Television as Incidental Language Teacher - Letitia R Naigles and Lara Mayeux
Creating Vigilance for Better Learning from Television - Dorina Miron, Jennings Bryant and Dolf Zillman
Prosocial Effects on Children′s Social Interactions - Marie-Louise Mares and Emory H Woodward
Some Hazards of Television-Viewing
Fears, Aggression and Sexual Attitudes
The Media and Children′s Fears, Anxieties and Perceptions of Danger - Joanne Cantor
Effects of Televised Violence on Aggression - L Rowell Huesmann
Media Violence in Cross-Cultural Perspective - Jo Groebel
A Global Study on Children′s Media Behavior and Some Educational Implications
Research on Sex in the Media - Neil M Malamuth and Emily A Impett
What Do We Know about Effects on Children and Adolescents?
Sex in the Media - Ed Donnerstein and Stacy Smith
Theory, Influences and Solutions
Mass Media and Identity Development - Nina Huntemann and Michael Morgan
Media and the Family - Robert Kubey and Barna William Donovan
Television′s Gender-Role Images and Contribution to Stereotyping - Nancy Signorielli
Past, Present and Future
Television, Children and Multicultural Awareness - Gordon L Berry and Joy Keiko Asamen
Comprehending the Medium in a Complex Multimedia Society
Children and Television Advertising - Dale Kunkel
Popular Music in Childhood and Adolescence - Donald F Roberts and Peter G Christienson
Children, Adolescents, Drugs and the Media - Victor C Strasburger
Television Food Advertising - Katherine Battle Horgen, Molly Choate and Kelly D Brownell
Targeting Children in a Toxic Environment
Television and Morality - Lawrence I Rosenkoetter
PART TWO: FORGING THE MEDIA ENVIRONMENT FOR THE FUTURE: THE MEDIA INDUSTRY AND ITS TECHNOLOGY
The Economic Structure of the Commercial Electronic Children′s Media Industries - J Cory Allen
Broadcast Networks and the Children′s Television Business - Alison Alexander
Serving the Very Young and Restless - Jerry Franklin, Larry Rifkin and Patrice Pascual
Children′s Programming on Public Television
Prix Jeunesse as a Force for Cultural Diversity - David W Kleeman
Cable Television - Peter J Dirr
Gateway to Educational Resources for Development at all Ages
Children, the Internet and Other New Technologies - Todd Tarpley
Hazards and Possibilities of Commercial TV in the Schools - Ellen Wartella and Nancy Jennings
The Role of Research in Educational Television - Michael Cohen
PART THREE: POLICY ISSUES AND ADVOCACY
Children and Media Policy - Dale Kunkel and Brian Wilcox
Industry Standards and Practices - Karen Hill-Scott
Compliance with the Children′s Television Act
Child and Parent Responses to the Age-Based and Content-Based Television Ratings - Bradley S Greenberg and Lynn Rampoldi-Hnilo
Digital Kids - Kathryn C Montgomery
The New Online Children′s Consumer Culture
Public Policy and Private Practice - Amy B Jordan
Government Regulations and Parental Control of Children′s Television Use in the Home
Parents and Other Adults - Marjorie J Hogan
Models and Monitors of Healthy Media Habits
Media Literacy and Critical Television Viewing in Education - James A Brown
Children′s Advocacy Groups - Laurie Trotta
A History and Analysis

About the Author

Dorothy G. Singer, is retired Senior Research Scientist, Department of Psychology, Yale University. Dr. Singer is also Co-Director, with Jerome L. Singer, of the Yale University Family Television Research and Consultation Center affiliated with the Zigler Center for Child Development and Public Policy. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. Her research and publications are in the area of early childhood development, television effects on youth, and parent training in imaginative play. She received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Teachers College, Columbia University in 2006, and in 2009, the Award for Distinguished Lifetime Contributions to Media Psychology from the American Psychological Association.



Jerome L. Singer is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale University and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. His specialty is research on the psychology of imagination and daydreaming. Dr. Singer has authored articles on thought processes, imagery, personality, psychotherapy, children′s play, and the effects of television. He has been President of the Division of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts in the American Psychological Association. In 2008, he was awarded the Rudolf Arnheim Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts from the American Psychological Association, and in 2009, the Paul Farnsworth Award for Lifetime Contribution and Service, Division 10, American Psychological Association.

Reviews

"An authoritative overview of media effects on children and adolscents . . . Singer and Singer anchor each section with a preliminary overview, a conclusion, and references at the end of each chapter. This readable handbook is certain to be an important resource for students, scholars, and researchers in a variety of disciplines."
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"The Handbook provides an excellent overview of research on children′s media. The level of detail of most chapters is astonishing. Many chapters are superbly written and provide research summaries accessible to all audiences. . . . The encyclopedic scope of the Handbook makes it the most comprehensive resource available about all aspects of children′s media. . . . Dorothy and Jerome Singer deserve praise for their excellent introductions to each part of the handbook and their concluding remarks. . . .The Handbook is a testimony to their standing as leaders in the field of children′s media."
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