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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Television and children"”.
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Commercial television and children.
… interest in the sales aspect of commercial television and its impact upon children. It consists of a study of the effectiveness of Action for Children's Television in encouraging the broadcast industry to employ additional self-regulation when broadcasting to children as a commercial …
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A Study of Some Effects of Commercial Television on Seventh and Eighth Grade Students in the Chehalis Public Schools
… of this study was to investigate some effects of television viewing on the seventh and eighth grade students of Chehalis, Washington.
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Television-Mediated Aggression and Its Effects on Children’s Level of Aggressiveness
It was hypothesized that subjects viewing film-mediated aggressive models would perform more aggressive behaviors in the test situation, than either of the other two groups, despite the low similarity factor. Results failed to confirm this hypothesis. It was found that boys were more aggressive …
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The effects of co-viewing children’s educational programming on parental communication patterns
… study was to examine the potential impact that children’s educational television programs can have on parents’ communications with their children when they co-view such programming together. The literature review provided a rich foundation of research on education television. Studies showed many …
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"Time for Teletubbies": Childhood, Child Participation, and the Struggle for Meaning
The children's television program Teletubbies and its concomitant controversies are analyzed along with the media attention surrounding the program. A textual analysis is presented, including the methodologies of narrative theory, semiotics/structuralism, and poststructuralism. The context is also …
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A critical look at nutritional value of commercials on the Nickelodeon Network
<p>Food advertising aimed at children in America has been proven to directly impact food preferences, eating behavior and brand loyalty of youth (Story & French, 2004). The purpose of this study was to evaluate the content of television commercials that occurred during children's programming on the …
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A Deconstruction and Qualitative Analysis of the Consumption of Traditional Entertainment Media by Elementary-Aged Children Diagnosed with Emotional Disorders.
… examined whether a connection exists between children with emotional disorders consumption of traditional entertainment media and their subsequent vegative/anti-social classroom behavior. Research participants included six first-grade children diagnosed with an emotional disorder and their …