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ECOLOGY OF MASS MEDIA (Print Media (books/magazines) and Children…
ECOLOGY OF MASS MEDIA
Mass Media
influences
values
beliefs
behavior
forms
large audiences informed quickly
impersonal medium btwn sender & receiver
what it does to culture
shapes
transforms
what it can change
enhance expereinces
interfere with expereiences
Chronosystem Influences
Macrosystem Influences
broadcasting
politics
economics
technology
U.S.
communication
private ownership
corporate profits
unfluences attitueds & behaviors
entertainmentt
regulation
ECC
FTC
Children's Television Act of 1990
3 hours or education TV/week
10.5 minutes of commercials/hr
of children's programming
12 mins /hr of children's
TV on weekends
Screen Media
children
changes
sleep habit
meals
leisure time
family converstaion patterns
cable/home video 1980s
diversity 1970s
programming has changed over time
theories
social cognitive - Bandura - model observation
cultivation - Gerbner - affects viewers beliefs
of the world/behavior
motivation - Rubin - impact depends on individual
displacement - may displace important developmental activities
socialization outcomes
Children avg. 3-5 hours unsupervised
affects
interpersonal relationships
family interactions
physical development/health
less physical activity
heavy media usage = obesity
psychological
altered perceptins of reality
violence
learned violence
more fearful of being attacked
desensitized
attitudes
arousal
observational learning
effects on imagination
effects of advertising
gullibility
cognitive development
realtiy vs fantasy
brand names known by 2 yrs. old
products solve porblems
sterotyping
decline in test scores
sexuality from porgramming
good behaviors on shows = child good behaviors
Mesosystems
community
links
PBS
cabel/satellite
recordings
public interest
School links
part of curriculum
peer-media links
various ways to connect
Print Media (books/magazines)
and Children
more difficult to investigate
provokes more imagination
have complex structures
often long
difficult to separate socialization effects of the content from socialization of interpretation
socialization
influences
socioeconomics of parents
education of parents
primary source
education
religion
government
literacy communication
reading
writing
most American families do not read to children
language/reading/cognition
enhancements
language
reading skills
cognitive development
stimulate imagination
vicarious experiences
help to understand self
psychological development
models of behavior
values thru stories
help cope with problems
understand feelings
self
others
concerns
challenged books
banned books
sexually explicit
offensive language
stereotyping
violence
unsuitable for age group
development
cognition
language/
reading
development
pyschosocial
Audio Media & Children
alienates adults
engages attention & emotion & values
contagion (exposed to act on it)
MTC 1983
values reflected in music
vs music reflects values
Interactive/Multimedia & Children
actively participate
mulitdemensional/flexible
self-efficacy/easy access
computers/internet
2/3 US children have access to internet/computers
reading comprehension requires different skills
different opportunities per socioeconomic status
influenced by internet messages
video games/CD games
appeal
graphics (realism)
level or gradual challenges
ways of encouraging interaction
concerns
agression
sex
gender roles
rule bound logic
Home Protection
happines in trouble times
Alma 50:23
And it came to pass that we lived after the manner of happiness.
Family Online Safety Institute International
internet filters
everyone share in the home chores
follow the Moroni's battle
strategies to protect home
dig a deep ditch and pile up ridges
put up strong timbers and tall pickets on top of dirt ridges
build towers and places of security
where attacks/take over strategies (Book of Mormon)
battles btwn 2 people - for or against God
enemy first attacks edges
unrelenting attacks over time
dessenters from within aid enemies
attacks initally gave goals, but lost sight of goals
L10-Ecology of Mass Media - dwinstead