Television and Children: A Special Medium for a Special Audience

by Aimée Dorr

Book Overview

Aim[ac]ee Dorr examines childrens interaction with television, emphasizing the childs active role in making sense of television. She discusses specific examples of programmes watched by children; the sense they make of advertising and programming; what children know about the medium; what a formal feature is; what effects television can have; how effects are studied and what literacy curricula look like.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803925654
• ISBN13: 9780803925656
• Release Date: April 1986
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.