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Ecology of the Mass Media (Screen Media and Socialization Concerns…
Ecology of the Mass Media
Screen Media and Socialization Concerns
Socioemotional Development and Relationships
Children spend 3 to 5 hours a day in front of the television
Physical Development and Health
Obesity is linked to heavy media consumption
Children and adolescents are exposed to many ads for food, on average of 15 food ads each day
Substance Use and Abuse
Studies have linked tobacco and alcoholic beverage ads with increased use among young people
Psychological Development and Behavior
Perception
The way screen media present information affects an individual's perception of reality
Emotions about Agression and Violence
Television, movies, and other media provide a multitude of images that have the capacity to worry, frighten, or even traumatize children
Effects of TV Viewing on Attitudes and Movies
Attitudes about Aggression and Motives to Behave Aggressively
Desensitization is the gradual reduction in response to a stimulus after repeated exposure
Mass Media
The form of communication in which large audiences quickly receive a given message via an impersonal medium between the sender and the receiver
Newspapers, magazines, books, radio, television, movies, videos, popular music, computer applications, apps on tablets and cell phones, and various multimedia
Transformers, shapers, and spreaders of culture
The learned behavior, including knowledge , beliefs, art, morals, law, customs, skills, and traditions, that is characteristic of the social environment in which an individual grows up
Outcomes for children
Child variables include age, cognitive ability, gender, social experience, and psychological needs
Family variables include economics, time, mediation, and adult superivision
Bidirectional variables include what the child brings to the media experience to change it , and how the media experience changes the child.
Macrosystem Influences on Mass Media
Politics includes the laws under which the media operate
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regulates the broadcast media
Economics include corporate sponsors for the shows
Private ownership and corporate profits
Technology includes the type of medium as well as its content
Cable, satellite, video recorders, and computers
Children and Screen Media
Television, Movies, and Affect on Culture
Choices for children have increased on public TV
By the end of the decade the children's TV and toy markets were dominated by story lines built around multiple characters designed to sell
Theories Regarding How Screen Media Influence Children
Social Cognitive Theory
Cultivation Theory
Motivation Theory
Displacement Theory