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Cyber-bullying, sexting, and the effects that violent video games have on children are widely discussed and debated. With a renowned international group of researchers and scholars, the Second Editionof the Handbook of Children and the Media covers these topics, is updated with cutting-edge research, and includes comprehensive analysis of the field for students and scholars. This revision examines the social and cognitive effects of new media, such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Skype, iPads, and cell phones, and how children are using this new technology. This book summarizes the latest research on children and the media and suggests directions for future research. This book also attempts to provide students with a deliberate examination of how children use, enjoy, learn from, and are advantaged or disadvantaged by regular exposure to television, new technologies, and other electronic media.

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• 01 The Use of Television and Other Film-Related Media
• 02 The Role of Reading for Children and Adolescents in a Digital Age
• 03 Children, The Internet, and Other New Technologies
• 04 Digital Media and Youth: Games, Internet and Development
• 05 Social Networking, Social Gaming, Texting
• 06 Attention, Comprehension, and the Educational Influences of Television
• 07 Television as an Incidental Language Teacher
• 08 Television and the Child's Developing Imagination
• 09 Creating Vigilance for Better Learning From Television
• 10 Effects of Prosocial TV Content on Children's Social Interactions
• 11 The Media and Children's Fears, Anxieties, and Sleep Disturbances
• 12 Effects of Media Violence on Aggression
• 13 Prosocial, Antisocial, and Educational Effects of Recreational Video Games
• 14 Research on Sex in the Media: What Do We Know About Effects on Children and Adolescents
• 15 Media and Identity Development
• 16 Television's Gender Role Images and Contribution to Stereotyping: Past, Present, Future
• 17 Media and the Family
• 18 Television, Children, and Multicultural Awareness: Comprehending the Medium in a Complex Multimedia Society
• 19 Prix Jeunesse as a Force for Cultural Diversity
• 20 Children and Media in a Global Perspective
• 21 Children and Television Advertising
• 22 Children, Adolescents, Drugs, and the Media
• 23 Food Advertising: Targeting Children in a Toxic Environment
• 24 Popular Music: The Soundtrack of Adolescence
• 25 The Economic Structure of the Commercial Electronic Children's Media Industries
• 26 The Children's Television Business: Programming and Structure
• 27 The Role of Research and Evaluation in Educational Media
• 28 Hazards and Possibilities of Commercial Media in the Schools
• 29 Policies and Regulations Regarding Children's Exposure to the Electronic Media
• 30 Industry Standards and Practices: Compliance with the Children's Television Act
• 31 Child and Parent Responses to the Age-Based and Content-Based Television Ratings
• 32 Safeguards for Youth in the Digital Marketing Ecosystem
• 33 Public Policy and Private Practice: Government Regulations and Parental Control of Children's Television Use in the Home
• 34 Parents and Other Adults: Models and Monitors of Healthy Media Habits
• 35 Media Literacy and Critical Television Viewing in Education
• 36 Children's Advocacy Groups: a History and Analysis

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CHOICE Review

In its second edition, this handbook continues to provide an authoritative, readable overview of media effects on children and adolescents. Updated and expanded since the first edition (CH, Mar'01, 38-4163), the book offers a comprehensive examination of both traditional media (television, film, advertising) and newer forms (e.g., Internet, video games). Of particular value in this second edition are chapters on how youth interface with new technologies (blogs, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Myspace, Skype, text messaging). The editors divide the 35 chapters into three parts: part 1 (23 chapters) examines how popular media serve as an "educator" for developing children; part 2 (4 chapters) takes up the future effects of the media industry and its technology on children and policy issues; and part 3 (8 chapters) looks at advocacy relating to children. Important topics include reading, digital media, social networking, cognitive readiness, language instruction, vigilance, fear, aggression, sexual attitudes, violence, identity development, gender role, the family, multicultural awareness, research and evaluation, and parenting practices. Each chapter includes its own set of references. As with the first edition, Singer and Singer anchor each section with preliminary contextual comments. A crucial resource. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. G. C. Gamst University of La Verne

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Dorothy G. Singer , is retired Senior Research Scientist, Department of Psychology, Yale University. Dr. Singer is also Co-Director, with Jerome L. Singer, of the Yale University Family Television Research and Consultation Center affiliated with the Zigler Center for Child Development and Public Policy. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. Her research and publications are in the area of early childhood development, television effects on youth, and parent training in imaginative play. She received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Teachers College, Columbia University in 2006, and in 2009, the Award for Distinguished Lifetime Contributions to Media Psychology from the American Psychological Association.

Jerome L. Singer is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Yale University and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. His specialty is research on the psychology of imagination and daydreaming. Dr. Singer has authored articles on thought processes, imagery, personality, psychotherapy, children′s play, and the effects of television. He has been President of the Division of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts in the American Psychological Association. In 2008, he was awarded the Rudolf Arnheim Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts from the American Psychological Association, and in 2009, the Paul Farnsworth Award for Lifetime Contribution and Service, Division 10, American Psychological Association.