Children Talking Television: The Making Of Television Literacy

by David Buckingham

Book Overview

Is television harmful to children? Does it destroy imagination, provode delinquency and violence, undermine family life and have other detrimental effects on children?; The author, himself a parent, teacher and researcher investigates the complex ways in which children actively make meaning and take pleasure from television. Chapters cover the popular debates about children and television from a general and academic perspective. The characteristics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750701102
• ISBN13: 9780750701105
• Release Date: March 1993
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"