Improving Children's Critical and Creative Thinking Using Media - Through Traditional and Digital Media

This book addresses the most common questions raised by parents regarding the impact of media on children. It offers insights on suitable media choices for children, fostering healthy media usage, determining appropriate age for media consumption, and navigating related technologies.

List of contents

Introduction. 1. Common Parental Questions 2. Violence in Media and Its Impact on Children 3. Applying Media and Communication Technology for Child’ Skills Improvement 4. Confronting Stereotypes in Media as Obstacles to Critical Thinking 5. Safeguarding Children; Addressing Children’s Fear from Films Characters and Protection from News 6. Teaching Online Ethics to Children 7.Improving Children’s Advertisement Literacy 8. Media and Child Sexual Education 9. Teenagers and Online Space

About the author

Mania Alehpour is pursuing her second PhD at UNSW. In her current PhD thesis, she is investigating how adolescents use social media to improve their mental health. For her first PhD, she studied children's interpretation of critical concepts in animated movies. Throughout her career, she has focused on various aspects of media and children.

Summary

This book addresses the most common questions raised by parents regarding the impact of media on children. It offers insights on suitable media choices for children, fostering healthy media usage, determining appropriate age for media consumption, and navigating related technologies.

Product details

• Authors: Mania Alehpour
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.09.2024
• EAN: 9781032866833
• ISBN: 978-1-032-86683-3
• No. of pages: 102
• Weight: 360 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, COMPUTERS / Logic Design, COMPUTERS / Networking / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, Press & journalism, Social issues & processes, Age groups: children, News media and journalism, Computer architecture & logic design, Computer networking & communications, COMPUTERS / Computer Architecture, Computer networking and communications