At the time of writing this chapter, the question of whether infants can learn from audiovisual
content is the newest, hottest topic in research on educational programming. In effect, there …

Although television viewing has been a normative activity for 50 years, the rise of infant
viewing is a relatively recent phenomenon. The American Academy of Pediatrics …

A merican gadgets. It children is not uncommon today are to immersed see them in with a
world a cell phone of electronic in their hand, texting a friend, while at the same time …

Baby media have exploded in the past decade, and children younger than 2 are showing
increased use of these baby media. This paper examines the historical evidence of babies' …

Electronic media, particularly television, have long been criticized for their potential impact
on children. One area for concern is how early media exposure influences cognitive …

Reviews study that tested the long-term influence of early childhood television viewing on
adolescent achievement. Focuses on the demonstrated importance of content of television …

In 1966, Sesame Street founders Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett asked,“Can
television be used to teach young children?”(Sesame Workshop, nd). More than 45 years …

I've been in children's media for over three decades–long enough to have seen dramatically
positive (if not always linear) progress in the relationship between industry and academia …

Children today live in an era of media saturation, with an abundance of entertainment
options at their disposal. Both the media forms and the media content children experience …

Recent years have seen an explosion in electronic media marketed directly at the very
youngest children in our society: a booming market of videotapes and DVDs aimed at infants …