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Mares, Marie-Louise; Pan, Zhongdang – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2013
"Sesame Street" is broadcast to millions of children globally, including in some of the world's poorest regions. This meta-analysis examines the effects of children's exposure to international co-productions of "Sesame Street", synthesizing the results of 24 studies, conducted with over 10,000 children in 15 countries. The results indicated…
Descriptors: Programming (Broadcast), Income, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. – 2000
The Mass Communication and Society Division section of the proceedings contains the following 12 papers: "Retreads: Recycling American Prime Time Television for Fun and Profit" (Chad Dell); "Partisan and Structural Balance of Election Stories on the 1998 Governor's Race in Michigan" (Frederick Fico and William Cote);…
Descriptors: Child Health, Content Analysis, Crime, Economic Factors
Eastman, Wayne – 1996
Television plays a dominant role in our society; however, television on its own is neither bad nor good. It offers children benefits such as education and entertainment, but television can impact negatively on young lives by detracting children from other activities such as physical and dramatic play. The effect of television on children's…
Descriptors: Broadcast Television, Child Behavior, Child Caregivers, Child Development
Lester, Callum R.; Robinson, David A.; Hamilton, Neil M. – 1998
The construction of a very fast network backbone between all Scottish universities, in conjunction with the formation of a common core curriculum for Scottish medical schools teaching child health, has provided the schools with an opportunity to provide collaborative, computer assisted learning (CAL) across the World Wide Web, delivered by a…
Descriptors: Child Health, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Computer Simulation