Children and Television: A Global PerspectiveISBN: 978-1-4051-4418-6
Hardcover
272 pages
August 2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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This book offers an integrative view on children and television
from the accumulated global literature in this field of the last 50
years, drawing on a diverse spectrum of research. combining both
the American and European traditions. Children and
Television features an international approach, balancing the
need to contextualize television in children’s lives in their
unique cultural spaces, as well as searching for universal
understandings that hold true for children around the world.
- Presents an inclusive view on children and television,
examining the accumulated global literature in this field of the
last 50 years
- Combines both the European tradition, characterized by a more
sociological and cultural studies perspective to the field, with
the American tradition, influenced heavily by the developmental
psychological studies
- Draws together a methodological diversity from both the
quantitative (experimental and survey) and qualitative
(ethnographic and interview) research on children and
television
- Written with a distinctively international approach, and highlights the global perspective in each of the chapters.