Investigated the kinds of judgments young children make about television "reality." Thirty-one children negotiated ways of sorting a given number of programs into those they thought were more realistic or true-to-life and those they thought were less so. Revealed several criteria or cues the children used in making these reality…

Analyzes television viewing behavior in a naturalistic setting, investigating channel changing and other commercial avoidance behaviors. Finds that channel changing is stimulated more by commercials than by programs and that 90% of channel changers click the switch during commercial breaks, raising serious questions about program and station…

Chronicles development and production of television series, "The Counseling Forum," that deals primarily with mental health counseling issues for broadcasting on Public Broadcasting Service, educational, and cable stations. Provides specific steps that mental health counselors can follow in development and production of television series as public…

Investigates the nature and extent of violence contained in television programming that targets children aged 12 and younger. Notes that the violence itself is just as likely to be glamorized in children's as in nonchildren's shows, but it is even more sanitized and more likely to be trivialized. Documents five subgenres of children's programming…

Investigates the possibility that television can evoke presence by showing 65 undergraduate students examples of rapid point-of-view movement from commercially available videotapes on a television with either a small or large screen. Finds that participants watching the large screen television thought the movement in the scenes was faster, enjoyed…

Discusses partnerships between public broadcasting organizations and educational institutions. Highlights include examples of partnerships currently underway; the third generation of the World Wide Web which includes broadband delivery that is necessary for integrating media; and public television today, including interactive television. (LRW)

Since the inception of instructional television (ITV) in the 1950s and 1960s, public broadcasting has been a valued source of quality video resources for the nation's classrooms. From the early days of "television teachers," whose expertise could be broadcast across wide geographical areas, to today's digital video delivery, public television…

Education plays a vital role to develop the nation culturally, economically and socially. That is why every nation focuses on this sector. For its improvement all endeavors are being made through formal education, Non-formal education and Distance Education. The trend of distance education has developed considerably in developed countries and…

Several authors have suggested that a teacher's ability to encourage a disposition to read may be linked to their personal reading habits and views of literacy. This study examined the relationship between elementary school teachers' reading habits, knowledge of children's literature, and their use of literacy best practices in the classroom. One…

The current generation of young children has been described as "digital natives", having been born into a ubiquitous digital media environment. They are envisaged as educationally independent of the guided interaction provided by "digital immigrants": parents and teachers. This article uses data from the Longitudinal Study of…

In a recent study of the Tampa (Florida) market, TRAC Media Services acquired some interesting information about the market's response to its two public television stations. WEDU is a VHF-signal community station that reaches about 745,000 households in a week, and WUSF is a university-licensed UHF station that reaches about 547,000. Month-long…

New technologically-oriented cartoons have been developed in the 1980s, and they may influence the attitudes and behaviors of their viewing audiences, who are comprised primarily of male children. A study analyzed "The Transformers" television program (a new robotic cartoon consisting of a mixture of violence, technology, space travel,…

The 3 studies described in this paper focused on the image of the child in television advertising directed toward children between the ages of 2 and 11. Using an analysis code containing 16 operationally-defined categories, the first study analyzed the behaviors of children depicted in 37 commercials for toys, food, and clothing from Saturday…

Summarizing some findings of an investigation into TV programing, the author presents factors for reexamination of the function of commercial TV which counter the industry's use of statistics on current TV habits as proof of people's preference and urges educators to promote elevation of the medium's level of moral discourse. (AJ)

This subcommittee report presents a history of congressional action regarding violence on television and then outlines conclusions and recommendations for legislative consideration. Acknowledging that excessive viewing of violence may have harmful effects on children, the report places responsibility for program content on the networks and…