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Informationen zum Autor 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. 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 & Singer's 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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,...
