Children and the Media

Informationen zum Autor Everette E. Dennis Klappentext Throughout history the media has primarily been produced by adults, for adults, about adults. Increasingly, children have become a matter of high priority in the modern media society, and as they have, they have also become the subject of much concern. Zusammenfassung Throughout history the media has primarily been produced by adults, for adults, about adults. Increasingly, children have become a matter of high priority in the modern media society, and as they have, they have also become the subject of much concern. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction Part I Overview  1. Symposium I Jana Eisenberg  In the first of four "symposia" of short observations on the intersection of children and media compiled by New York free-lancer Jana Eisenberg, six preeminent commentators share their thoughts: U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley, Vivian Horner of Bell Atlantic, Ernest Boyer of the Carnegie Foundation, Sen. Paul Simon of Illinois and entertainers Shari Lewis and Art Linkletter.  2. The Moment of Truth Reed Hundt  Who better to reflect on the future of children and the media than the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission? "Why focus on connecting our children to the potential of the communications revolution?" he asks in outlining his goals in this area. "Because any concept of a well-ordered society depends on raising our children to participate in public discourse, and that discourse will increasingly be through electronic means."  3. "As I Told the FCC . . ."  Yet Another Modest Proposal for Children's Television Peggy Charren  After a quarter-century, the founder of Action for Children's Television is anything but shy about telling the FCC what's wrong with commercial broadcasting for children. "The record of those 25 years shows that in large part, commercial television has abdicated its educational responsibility and concentrated on its ability to amuse," she says. "Part of the reason we keep having this discussion is that the commercial TV industry does not know how-or does not care-to obey the law."  4. Why Kids Hate Educational TV Patricia Aufderheide  "You don't have to get up early too many Saturday mornings with the kids before you're convinced that there's not much educational and informational programming for children on commercial broadcast television," observes a media researcher and communication professor at the American University in Washington. "And, by and large, what is there isn't very inspiring. What was Newton Minow's line? The Vast Wasteland is perhaps vastest on Saturday mornings."  5. Electronic Childhood Ellen Wartella  "My children are living an electronic childhood," writes the dean of the College of Communication at the University of Texas-Austin. "As parents, teachers and television producers observe our children in this electronic world, we are both awed by their agility with media that sometimes intimidate us and fearful of the ways those new media are changing the nature of children's lives and the society in which they grow up."  Part II Covering Children  6. Symposium II Jana Eisenberg  Opening this section are reflections from six more commentators with vast experience writing, researching, entertaining and thinking about kids: author and journalist Alex Kotlowitz, Harvard scholar Gerald Lesser, Linda Ellerbee of "Nick News," kidpaper publisher Adam Linter, children's entertainer Raffi and Columbia University's Samuel Freedman.  7. From Unseen and Unheard to Kidsbeat Cathy Trost  "For years, the children's beat was the Rodney Dangerfield of American newsrooms," reflects the director of the Casey Journalism Center for Children and Families at the University of Maryland, "it got no respect." "Covering politics or City Hall was the journalist's dream job, and few wanted to get sidetracked into the low-status, soft-news backwater of kids." But that's changing.  8. How the News Med...

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• Authors: Everette E Dennis, Everette E. Dennis, Everette E. (EDT)/ Pease Dennis
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.1996
• EAN: 9781560008729
• ISBN: 978-1-56000-872-9
• No. of pages: 199
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories