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Children and Television: Fifty Years of Research (LEA's Communication Series) (Routledge Communication Series)

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There are an awful lot of opinions about children's television. This has in turn generated an awful lot of research, most of it well done, about the effects of television on children. This book, in turn consists of eight essays that summarize the relavant research in critical areas such advertising, program content, how children learn from TV, health aspects and of course violence. The essays are written by individuals who are recognized experts in their fields.

This book has been in preparation for about ten years and represents the net result of reviewing more than 2,000 research papers published in the United States. It describes the nature of the research that has been conducted as well as their findings. It also discusses, in many cases, the effects of what the findings discovered are also mentioned.

Finally there is a complete bibliography of the research reports included in the book and on a CD supplied with the book.