Electronic media, particularly television, have long been criticized for their potential impact on children. One area for concern is how early media exposure influences cognitive development and academic achievement. Heather Kirkorian, Ellen Wartella, and Daniel Anderson summarize the relevant research and provide suggestions for maximizing the positive effects of media and minimizing the negat...

The degree to which media contributes to body dissatisfaction, life satisfaction and eating disorder symptoms in teenage girls continues to be debated. The current study examines television, social media and peer competition influences on body dissatisfaction, eating disorder symptoms and life satisfaction in a sample of 237 mostly Hispanic girls. 101 of these girls were reassessed in a later 6...

The goal of this study was to investigate whether exposure to sexual reality television content and Internet pornography (IP) is related to sexual self-presentation on social media. Based on a two-wave panel survey among 1,765 adolescents aged 13-17 years, we found that watching sexual reality television content stimulated adolescents to produce and distribute sexual images of themselves on soc...

one form or another featured twice in the course of one week on the National Television System recently. Whether this means that we have mass media appeal or that we are known by the programme writers as an easy touch is not clear, but the occurrence surely merits a comment in the annals of local hospital events. The week got off to a rousing start with a 'Your Life in Their Hands' programme st...

In 2003, the National Literacy Trust commissioned Dr Robin Close to conduct a literature review of published research in order to understand more fully the relationship between television viewing in the early years and language and literacy development. A priority of the National Literacy Trust is to understand the relationship between language development in children from birth to age three an...

CAROLYN A. LIN University of Connecticut [email protected] Broadcasting over the internet presents a new frontier for media and advertising industries to conquer. At the local level, the greatest asset of a television station is its "localism"—with the audience still regarding television stations as the most effective source for local weather, traffic, and sports news as well as advertising...

purpose: popular tv series and sitcoms have received different reactions from people of different   classes. the present study was conducted to measure the positive and negative attitudes of   psychologists, psychiatrists, chronic psychiatric patients and ordinary healthy viewers toward an   iranian tv series entitled ‘the physicians’ building’ whose main character was a psychologist.   materia...