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The Television Generation, Television Literacy, and Television Trends.
Cohen, Jodi R. – 1987
Unlike the linear, serial process of reading books, learning to "read" television is a parallel process in which multiple pieces of information are simultaneously received. Perceiving images, only one aspect of understanding television, requires the concurrent processing of information that is compounded within a symbol system. The…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Cognitive Processes, Mass Media Effects, Popular Culture
Experimental Phenomenology and Visual Literacy.
Hortin, John A. – 1980
Experimental phenomenology requires that educators acknowledge the experiences of the learner. Today, many of those experiences are images that come from television. In a behaviorist or humanist tradition, learning takes place through experience, and learners comprehend, make decisions, and analyze their behavior through reflection. Meaning is…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Educational Research, Films, Futures (of Society)
The Roles of Attention, Instruction, and Medium-Related Skills in Children's Television Viewing.
Braverman, Marc; Lehman, Rosemary – 1981
A study of the cognitive aspects of children's television watching addressed the following questions: To what degree is processing capability mediated by one's attentional set, as opposed to skills that one brings to the viewing situation? If attention is a significant mediating factor, is this true across various kinds of information one can…
Descriptors: Attention, Characterization, Cognitive Processes, Comprehension
Television and Visual Literacy. Readings from the 13th Annual Conference of the International Visual Literacy Association.
Braden, Roberts A., Ed.; Walker, Alice D., Ed. – 1982
This collection covers a variety of workshops and presentations related to the research, theory, technology, or implementation of some aspect of visual literacy. More than 40 authors are represented, with 12 of the papers dealing directly with television. The document begins with an overview and a keynote address by Neil Postman. Individual papers…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Cognitive Processes, Course Descriptions, Media Research
Schooling and Leisure Time Uses of Television. A Proposed Research Agenda Submitted to the National Institute of Education.
Clark, Richard E.; And Others – 1978
Seven researchers met with three representatives from the National Institute of Education (N.I.E.) in January 1978 to draft a research and demonstration agenda for N.I.E. on the relationship between leisure time uses of television and school performance. Of particular concern to N.I.E. is the role of federal policy and programs in addressing the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, After School Programs, Childhood Attitudes, Childrens Television
Survey Measurement of Cognitive Activity during Television Viewing.
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Hawkins, Robert P.; And Others – 1983
One hundred seventy-one middle school students participated in a study to assess cognitive activity during television viewing. Students completed a questionnaire about their favorite programs, viewing habits, and social reality beliefs, then viewed a 17-minute professionally edited episode of a family drama and answered a multiple choice…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Attention, Cognitive Development
Perspectives on Television Education. Television Education Workshop: Multiculturalism Canada (Ottawa, Canada, February 26-28, 1981).
Ungerleider, Charles S., Ed. – 1981
This report contains discussion papers presented at a workshop held in 1981 by the Multiculturalism Directorate of the Canadian Department of the Secretary of State to consider the effects of television on public attitudes and to develop approaches for educating viewers to analyze critically what they see. The papers include (1) an overview of the…
Descriptors: Canada Natives, Children, Cognitive Processes, Critical Thinking