How Children Use Television News Programming: Patterns of Exposure and Effects.

Autor/inn/en	Atkin, Charles; Gantz, Walter
Titel	How Children Use Television News Programming: Patterns of Exposure and Effects.
Quelle	(1974), (31 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Tagungsbericht; Childhood Attitudes; Elementary School Students; Environmental Influences; News Media; Television; Television Viewing + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Nachrichtenwesen; Fernsehen; Fernsehtechnik; Fernsehkonsum
Abstract	In order to determine the extent of children's exposure to national, local, and Saturday morning news programs and to gauge the impact on the child of news viewing, interviews were conducted with 703 children from kindergarten through fifth grade in inner-city, suburban, and rural schools, and with mothers of 236 students. Results showed that: (1) news viewing begins early in life, increasing with age; (2) boys watch more news programs than do girls; (3) there are only slight differences by race, academic ability, and political interest; (4) children do not tend to imitate parents' news viewing behaviors; and (5) opportunity (exposure to surrounding early evening and Saturday morning programs) is a major factor in producing news viewing. Moderate correlations were obtained between frequency of news watching and indices of political knowledge and general familiarity with current events. (A list of references and tables of findings are included.) (Author/JM)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01