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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Children's media"”.
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Analyzing the depictions of the multiracial child character in children's media
… recognizing an underserved population, but the media lags behind in the representation of Multiracial people in texts. My analysis of contemporary media examples (1) has the capacity to initiate conversations about the bigger social implication of race and diversity in the media; (2) sheds light …
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We are in Convergence: Intergenerational Synergies in Twenty-First-Century Children's Media Franchises
In the twenty-first century, children’s media and entertainment is big business. In a media landscape increasingly dominated by franchised media and entertainment, the media industries of the twenty-first century are increasingly turning to children’s media content as a means of generating secure …
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Protecting your eyes : censorship and moral standards of decency in Japan and the United States as reflected in children's media
… (in Japan and elsewhere) appropriate for children. However, even in some manga and anime targeted at children and teenagers, there are issues of sexuality and violence that the general Japanese public considers acceptable for younger audiences, while most American consumers probably …
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General Parenting Philosophy and Parental News Mediation: Designing a Qualitative Interview Process
It is important to study how children interact with the news media and how their parents control these interactions. As the media landscape evolves and children's access to news media becomes greater, the effects on children's media literacy and development are called into question. The goal of …
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Post-Cold War kids: changing representations of Russia and the Cold War in American children's film, 1992-2001
… of Russia and the Cold War in American children's films from the 1990s. By analyzing nine movies, this work explores the question: what messages about Russia and the Cold War do nineties children's movies contain? This analysis explores the othering of Russian characters, the treatment …
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Consuming Before they Can Walk: An Analysis of Media Literacy Education on the Top Preschool Programming Blocks on Television
Preschool television is a growing segment of children's media, but there is limited research examining the structure of the top preschool content producers. The vast majority preschool programming is promoted as educational by the networks; however no show explicitly lists media literacy education …
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Stereotyped Seniors: The Portrayal of Older Characters in Teen Movies from 1980-2006
… negative physical stereotypes associated with children's media, such as “toothless/missing teeth" and older characters' reliance on physical aids were mostly absent from teen movies. The marginalization of older characters, their lack of significance to the plot, and the use of negative …
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"Ew, Ew, the Body!": Submerged Racialization in American 21st-Century Children's Animation
… defamiliarizes them and reveals how children's media not only perpetuates specific caricatures of people of color but subtly naturalizes what race is as an assemblage of visual, verbal, performative, and affective components. While scholars studying racial representations in …
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Children's Music, MP3 Players, and Expressive Practices at a Vermont Elementary School: Media Consumption as Social Organization among Schoolchildren
… in the social structure of the family and children's command of an increasing share of family spending have led marketers to cultivate children as an important consumer demographic. The designation "tween," which one marketer refers to as kids "too old for Elmo but too young for Eminem," …
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Fathering and masculinity in children’s animated films: An analysis of top grossing lifetime films released 1989-2017
… pathway for observational learning to occur in children, especially as they spend more of their time consuming media. Given the importance of the media’s role in socializing children and continued research on how children use media to construct their own ideas, it is necessary to analyze …
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Representative Biodiversity: The Ecosystem of Cartoon Network
<p>As a capitalist organism the television program, as explained by Todd Gitlin, uses its slant to sell itself to advertisers with similar leanings on contemporary social issues to maintain its flow of revenue. However, this concept of slant does not account for the broader network, which, like the …
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Children's meaning-making with narrative apps in early years: investigating the interplay between young readers, teachers, and app design
This thesis examines children’s interactions with narrative apps on iPads within English early years settings, focusing on the triadic relationship between children, their teachers, and narrative apps during shared reading events. Beyond children’s interactions, the research investigates how both …
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(Re)Animating the Horror Genre: Explorations in Children's Animated Horror Films
<p>This project seeks to define the subgenre of children's animated horror film by examining its classification within the children's film genre and its use of generic conventions of horror. While this project does not aim to conflate children's film as a genre and animation as a medium, the scope …
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Consuming Dora the Explorer: a critical pedagogical examination of culture, literacy, and media
… regarding difference and representation in children’s media. This study engages Dora the Explorer’s first five seasons that were produced from 2000 to 2010. This investigation seeks to understand the dialectic nature between media, culture, literacy, pedagogy, and identity. This study is a …
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MOOD: A Zine Exploring the Value of Youth-Oriented Media
<p>Media is a constant, persistent force in human lives that informs and influences through published, broadcasted, and digitally mediated formats. Mass media industries produce and distribute content consumed by diverse audiences, though the facilitators represent only a fraction of the …
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Embodiment and agency in digital reading: Preschoolers making meaning with literary apps
This dissertation investigates meaning-making in children’s joint-reading transactions with literary apps. The analysis of meaning-making focuses on embodiment as a central aspect of literary app’s texts and their reading and on children’s negotiation of agency in the act of joint-reading. …