Effect of Mass Media on Children
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EFFECTS OF MASS MEDIA ON CHILDREN by Wei Bu (Beijing: Xinhua Press,2002—-RMB26.00, ISBN 7-5011-5441-4, 465 pp., appendices) is the first mono-graph on the relationship between media and children from the mainland of China. The research effort was funded by the National Social Science Foundation. With the development of communication technology, mass media has increasingly come in to the daily life of more people. While in the west research on the relationship between media and children began with the popular film in the 1920s, before the 1980s there was very little research on this topic in China. Based on the social investigation of children’s usage of mass media, case studies, and the results of media research over the last decade, the author analyses the use children make of media and its effects on children in China. The monograph provides essential and rich data on the development of children’s media and children’s usage of mass media, including the Internet. Bu analyses the effects of the media on children’s modernity, moral development, attainment, and other measures, as well as the effects of media violence, stereotypes in the media, and some other key problems about law-making, media self-regulation, and media education. The appendices provide some samples of investigations on children and media from 1990 to 2000.
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Bu, Wei
2002
Xinhua Publishing House
Beijing, China
7-5011-5441-4
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