Kids and Media in America
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- Donald F. Roberts, Stanford University, California
- Ulla G. Foehr, Stanford University, California
- Date Published: September 2003
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521527903
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Examining the full array of media available to children and adolescents, this book describes not only the amount of time they spend with each medium, but the kinds of content they choose, and the physical, social, and psychological context of much of their exposure. This national sample study provides a comprehensive picture of young people's media behavior.
Read more- The first national random sample study of all of US youths' media behavior, including samples of African American and Hispanic youth
- First study to examine total media budgets and to define distinct types of young media users
- Documents 'media privatization' - whereby a large proportion of children and adolescents engage in most media exposure without parental presence
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"The study is well-designed and well-executed." Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare
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- Date Published: September 2003
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521527903
- length: 406 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 154 x 22 mm
- weight: 0.544kg
- contains: 73 b/w illus. 228 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. The changing media landscape
2. The measurement of media behavior: measuring young people's media behavior
The samples
Questionnaires
3. The media environment
Media in the home
Multiple media homes
Media in young people's bedrooms
Household television orientation
Summing up the media environment
4. Screen media: television, videos, and movies: Amount of screen exposure
Content preferences
The context of exposure
Attitudes toward television
Summing up screen media exposure
5. Audio media: radio, tapes and CDs: attitudes toward television
Music content preferences
Audio media: a coda
6. Print media: books, magazines, and newspapers: amount of print exposure
Content preferences: what young people read
Summing up print behavior
7. Interactive media: who uses computers?
Amount of computer use
Videogames
Content preferences
Summing up interactive media use
8. Patterns of overall media consumption: exposure versus use
Overall media exposure
9. Media behavior: a youth perspective: personal contentedness and media use
Academic performance and media use
Heavy versus light media users
A typology of young people's media behavior
10. Summary and conclusions.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Introduction to Career Communications
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