Media and Children

Paper Summary:

The paper examines research from the 1990s and later years and shows how children and youth are both positively and negatively affected by today's media. The paper is of the opinion that it is critically important for parents and caretakers to monitor not only the quality but also the quantity of the media children are exposed to.

Outline:
Introduction
The Effects of Media on Children
Research in the 1990s
Research in the 2000s
Summary and Conclusion

From the Paper:

"The work of St. Peters, Huston, Wright, and Eakins (1991) reports a longitudinal study of children's television use that found that children tend to watch adult programs in the presence of their parents and child programs without their parents present. Negative reactions are noted in the study of Cantor and Hoffner (1990) in a study of 163 children between the ages of five and nine years of age which states that children were noted to have experienced more fear when they believed that a threat televised on television was a local threat."

Sample of Sources Used:

• St. Peters, M., Fitch, M., Huston, A. C., Wright, J. C., & Eakins, D. J. (1991). Television and families: What & Eakins, D. J. (1991). Television and families: What do young children watch with their parents? Child Development, 62(6), 1409.
• Cantor, J., & Hoffner, C. (1990). Children's fear reactions to a televised film as a function of perceived immediacy of depicted threat. Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 34(4), 421-442.
• Cantor, J., & Nathanson, A. I. (1996). Children's fright reactions to television news. Journal of Communication, 46(4), 139-152.
• Hite, C. F., & Hite, R. E. (1995). Reliance on brand by young children. Journal of the Market Research Society, 37(2), 185.(2), 185.
• Hoffner, C., & Cantor, J. (1990). Forewarning of a threat and prior knowledge of outcome: Effects on children's emotional responses to a film sequence. Human Communication Research, 16(3), 323-354. (3), 323-354.

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