The instructional television questionnaire for teachers consists primarily of statements to be answered with a rating scale. The first seventeen statements ask for evaluative judgments about various aspects of instructional television. The remainder of the statements require judgments of frequency. Questions to ascertain personal data and use of…

Community antenna television (CATV) is particularly important because of its potential for economically supplying a large number of channels, for providing viewer feedback, and for at least partially shifting the basis of programing support from the advertiser to the viewer. This study examines these aspects of CATV in order to accomplish the…

The impact of television (TV) on children has been examined many times, and concern over potential connections between viewed violence and antisocial behavior has grown. The National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence concluded in 1969 that violence on television encourages real violence, especially among the children of poor,…

To some degree television is the current inheritor of anxiety over the effects of communications from outside the home, and is not alone among mass media in presenting sizeable amounts of violence. However the accessibility, pervasiveness, and very character of television make it the ultimate mass medium, and hence a cause for concern. Television…

Cites excerpts from the Keynote address to the Joint Foundation Conference whose purpose was to formulate guidelines for future research on the role of television in the lives of young people. (MH)

Details a summary report of a conference of social scientists, government officials, media executives and public representatives concerned with establishing guidelines for future research on television's effects on children. (MH)

Presents an authoratative account of the history, economics, cultural politics and research directions of various international adaptations of the children's television program, Sesame Street. (MH)

Suggests that Japanese children's lack of exposure to spoken English poses critical problems in their comprehension of the program content of Sesame Street. Concludes that these problems are responsible for Sesame Street being treated mainly as an English study program for older students rather than as an educational program for young children.…

This article presents the results of a survey which attempted to determine what television program content is considered inappropriate or offensive by viewers, and what methods should be used to alert viewers to potentially objectionable material. (STS)

Videotapes of elementary school children watching a standard 15-minute television presentation were analyzed for attention to television, viewing patterns, and alternate activities. Recognition memory of auditory and visual content of the commercials and of the products was tested. Children's behavior during the program and during the commercials…

Television and television commercials are an important part of the environment that shapes today's students, and unless teachers recognize this, they will be attempting to teach space-age children using horse and buggy methods. (Author/JG)

Four reproducible pages containing activities to help children understand the effect of television, to question what they watch, to study how they use television, and to explore aural and visual awareness. (MT)

Identifies the significance of the long-running debate among religious broadcasting professionals and religion practitioners regarding the size of the audience for religious television. (MS)

Argues that critics are caught in the dialectical tension between "technology" and "art" in television research. Examines how this dialectic informs and constrains examination of television. Presents "rhetorical aesthetics" to support the claim that critics should draw inferences from practical consideration of…