Tuning In to Young Vieers Social Science Perspectives on Television [Paperback]

Tuning In to Young Viewers provides a much needed, up-to-date overview of the key topics in television use and effects. It is designed in both style and organization as an upper-level text for courses in communication and psychology and is written by scholars well-known to both fields, in particular for their work concerning media influences. Topics discussed include: diversity on television; television dependence, diagnosis and prevention; television and the socialization of young children; and children's fear anMedia effects - a key area of media studies - is traditionally provocative and often controversial. Contemporary issues such as violence on television and children's dependence on television are continually debated.

Tuning In to Young Viewers provides a much needed, up-to-date overview of the key topics in television use and effects. It is designed in both style and organization as an upper-level text for courses in communication and psychology and is written by scholars well-known to both fields, in particular for their work concerning media influences. Topics discussed include: diversity on television; television dependence, diagnosis and prevention; television and the socialization of young children; and children's fear anIntroduction - Tannis M MacBeth
Television and Socialization of Young Children - Aletha C Huston and John C Wright
Diversity on Television - Sherryl Browne Graves
Television and Children's Fear - Joanne Cantor
Television Violence Viewing and Aggressive Behavior - Eric Dubow and Laurie S Miller
Indirect Effects of Television - Tannis M MacBeth
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