Television and children : a special medium for a special audience / Aimée Dorr.
"Aim[ac]ee Dorr examines children's interactions with television from the assumption that children are a special audience and television is a special medium. She particularly emphasizes the child's active role in making sense of television and determining its effects on him or her.; ;...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Beverly Hills, Calif. :
Sage Publications,
[1986]
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| Series: | Sage commtext series ;
v. 14. |
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| Summary: | "Aim[ac]ee Dorr examines children's interactions with television from the assumption that children are a special audience and television is a special medium. She particularly emphasizes the child's active role in making sense of television and determining its effects on him or her.; ; Television is treated in its historical and societal contexts as a conveyor of content, as a user of children's time and as a medium with particular technological capabilities and formal features. Dorr includes specific examples of programmes that children watch, the sense children make of advertising and programming, what children know about the medium, what a formal feature is and what it does for the viewer. She also looks at what effects television can have, how effects are studied, and what literacy curricula look like."--Publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | 160 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-155) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0803925689 9780803925687 0803925654 9780803925656 |