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Media, Children, and the Family: Social Scientific, Psychodynamic, and Clinical Perspectives

Media, Children, and the Family: Social Scientific, Psychodynamic, and Clinical Perspectives

Zillmann, Dolf
Bryant, Jennings
Huston, Aletha C.

Paperback

Series: Routledge Communication

General ReferenceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0805814159
ISBN13: 9780805814156
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 1 1994
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.84 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This book brings together a group of scholars to share findings and insights on the effects of media on children and family. Their contributions reflect not only widely divergent political orientations and value systems, but also three distinct domains of inquiry into human motivation and behavior -- social scientific, psychodynamic (or psychoanalytical), and clinical practice. Each of these three domains is privy to important evidence and insights that need to transcend epistemological and methodological boundaries if understanding of the subject is to improve dramatically. In keeping with this notion, the editors asked the authors to go beyond a summary of findings, and lend additional distinction to the book by applying the binoculars of their particular perspective and offering suggestions as to the implications of their findings.

One of the goals of the conference that resulted in this book was consensus building in the area of media and family. From examining the findings and insights of a diverse group of scholars, it seems that consensus building in several areas is a distinct possibility. Addressing the concerns of educators about the influence of the mass media of communication -- entertainment programs in particular -- on children and the welfare of the nuclear family, this volume projects directions for superior programming, especially for educational television. The influence of sex and violence on children and adults is given much attention, and the development of moral judgment and sexual expectations, among other things, is explored. The critical analysis of media effects includes examination of positive contributions of the media, such as the search for missing children and exemplary educational programs.

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