Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This book offers an integrative view on children and television from the accumulated global literature in this field of the last 50 years, drawing on a diverse spectrum of research. combining both the American and European traditions. Children and Television features an international approach, balancing the need to contextualize television in children's lives in their unique cultural spaces, as well as searching for universal understandings that hold true for children around the world.

Presents an inclusive view on children and television, examining the accumulated global literature in this field of the last 50 years Combines both the European tradition, characterized by a more sociological and cultural studies perspective to the field, with the American tradition, influenced heavily by the developmental psychological studies Draws together a methodological diversity from both the quantitative (experimental and survey) and qualitative (ethnographic and interview) research on children and television Written with a distinctively international approach, and highlights the global perspective in each of the chapters.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface
• Introduction
• 1 The Home of Television Viewing
• 2 Television and Individual Development
• 3 Television and the Behavior of Children
• 4 Television and the Social Construction of Reality
• 5 Television and Learning
• 6 Implications for Education and Policy
• 7 Conclusion: Growing up in a Global Screen Culture
• Recommended Sources for Additional Readings
• References
• Index

Reviews provided by Syndetics

CHOICE Review

Lemish (Tel Aviv Univ.) presents "a critical analysis of the accumulated literature developed over the past fifty years on the relationships of children and television with a view to assisting contemporary researchers, students of media, television producers, policymakers, educators, and parents to understand the key issues." She provides an integrated analysis of research from all over the world on interrelationships between children and television in various national cultural contexts. Chapters deal with the role of the home in television viewing; television as it relates to behavior, learning, individual development, and the social construction of reality; implications for education and policy; and growing up within a global screen culture. The author's feminist stance colors her tone and approach. Her book profits from her work in three areas of the world (the US, Europe, and Israel), from her 25 years of research on this subject, and from her observations about the role of television in the lives of her three children. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. C. Sterling George Washington University