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Warrier, Sheela; Ebbeck, Marjory – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
This article focuses on aspects of children's rights as portrayed in television. The results of a six-month research study show analyses of television content of Channel 5, which is the only free-to-air, 24-hour, English-language entertainment channel in Singapore. The results identify the role of television in assisting Singapore to meet its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Television, Childrens Rights, Television Research
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Curdt-Christiansen, Xiao Lan – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2014
This article examines how political discourse, language ideologies, recent Chinese curriculum reforms, and their representations in the media are inextricably related. Using the "Speak Mandarin Campaign" as background for the inquiry, I focus on textual features of the various media sources, TV advertisements, campaign slogans, official…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Planning, Chinese, Discourse Analysis
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Rehman, Sharaf N.; Aw, Annette; Kennan, William – International Journal of Instructional Media, 1999
Appraises the information content of Singapore television advertising, and makes a comparison with relevant United States findings. Research reported in this paper is a replication of two empirical studies of the informational content of television advertising in the United States from 1977. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis, Research Methodology, Television Commercials