"This article describes the views of parents, children, and teachers concerning media use by Indonesian children. Survey data of parents (N=462), children (N=589), and teachers (N=104) show that children see themselves as more advanced users of new media than their parents. Their perception of their
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media experiences is also markedly different from that of their parents, while teachers' views are comparable to those of the parents. The latter claim to have established media use rules, which children tend to view as guidelines subject to debate rather than binding instructions. There is different use of old versus new media, parents show little awareness of or involvement with newer media." (Abstract)
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"This study investigated the role of the news media in the lives of Jewish and Arab children in Israel. A survey of 1657 children (ages 8–18), including analysis of open-ended questions, reveals that Jewish and Arab children in Israel live in two different worlds of news. They are exposed to diffe
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rent sources, stories, and interpretations; they take different messages from the news; and they hold to some degree different attitudes toward their roles in their lives. The news also seem to be more heavily integrated in the lives of the Jewish majority young people than it is in the lives of the Arab ones who treat it as more important to adults. If anything, it seems that the consumption of news serves mostly to contribute to separatism and further alienation of the minority Arab young people group from Israeli society." (Abstract)
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"In einer repräsentativen Face-to-Face-Befragung wurden im Mai/Juni 2011 zunächst grundlegende Kommunikations- und Mediennutzungsstrukturen in Familien mit Kindern zwischen drei und 19 Jahren ermittelt, wobei alle Familienmitglieder einzeln befragt wurden. Ergänzend wurde eine Tagebucherhebung du
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rchgeführt, um allgemeine Tätigkeiten, Freizeitbeschäftigungen sowie die Mediennutzung und Kommunikation im Tagesablauf zu erfassen. Familie bedeutet für die Befragten vor allem Zusammenhalt, Zusammengehörigkeit und Geborgenheit. Familien sind sehr gut mit Medien ausgestattet: Computer, Internet, Fernseher, Radio, Handy und verschiedene Geräte zum Aufzeichnen von Fernsehinhalten gehören zur Standardausstattung fast aller Haushalte. Auch die Kinder der untersuchten Familien verfügten über eine breite Medienausstattung. Die Betrachtung der Mediennutzung der Eltern und der Kinder machte deutlich, dass dem Fernsehen in den Familien eine besondere Bedeutung zukommt. In der FIM-Studie lag der Fokus auf der gemeinsamen Mediennutzung. 71 Prozent der Eltern sahen regelmäßig, also mindestens mehrmals pro Woche, mit ihren Kindern fern. Beim Internet war die gemeinsame Nutzung eher selten: Nur 13 Prozent der Eltern gaben an, regelmäßig gemeinsam mit ihren Kindern das Internet zu nutzen – am häufigsten Shoppingseiten, Angebote von Sendern und Sendungen sowie Spielseiten. In aktuellen Fragen der Medienerziehung schätzten sich 21 Prozent der Eltern als sehr kompetent ein. Die Mehrheit mit 60 Prozent der Eltern formulierte dies mit „etwas kompetent“ deutlich zurückhaltender. 14 Prozent schätzten sich weniger kompetent ein, und 5 Prozent schrieben sich hier gar keine Kompetenz zu." (Zusammenfassung)
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"En 2010 el Foro desplegó una nueva investigación en la que han participado ocho países: Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, México y Perú. El esfuerzo realizado por los equipos locales del Foro, con el apoyo inestimable de Fundación Telefónica y de Telefónica, ha permiti
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do que más de seiscientos colegios hayan tomado parte en ella, lo que ha supuesto encuestar a más de setenta y ocho mil menores de entre 6 y 18 años. Se ha puesto, además, un énfasis particular en que también los menores de los entornos rurales estuvieran debidamente representados en la muestra de estudio, lo que ha supuesto en muchos casos un trabajo adicional por parte de los profesores y de los equipos locales [...] los menores en los países iberoamericanos están creciendo en un contexto altamente tecnologizado, lo que plantea nuevas oportunidades y nuevos retos desde el punto de vista educativo y de la protección del menor. La importancia de éstos es tal que solo cabe una respuesta activa por parte de todas la instituciones involucradas en su educación: gobiernos, empresas, escuelas y, por supuesto, familias, deben sentirse interpeladas por la necesidad de formar a los menores en el uso responsable de las TIC. Únicamente el esfuerzo conjunto podrá conseguir minimizar los riesgos a los que se enfrentan con su uso y sacar el máximo provecho a las oportunidades que ofrece este nuevo escenario." (Introducción, página 12)
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Este estudio es la séptima versión de la Encuesta Nacional de Televisión que el Consejo Nacional de Televisión realiza cada 3 años desde el año 1993.
"This white paper takes a first look at the everyday world of digital tools and media in the lives of three- to five-year-old children, with a particular focus on non-intentional learning opportunities in developing and least-developed nations. It begins a discussion about how digital media learning
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opportunities, including non-intentional opportunities such as cell phones and video games, when combined with intentional learning opportunities such as educational television or computers, may be affecting emergent literacy skills development (Anderson & Pempek, 2005). An understanding of this phenom enon is important, because when new digital tools and media, as well as novel combinations of old and new media, become available and commonplace, “the media that children use and create [will be] integral to their growing sense of themselves, of the world, and of how they should interact with it” (Center for Media and Child Health at Children’s Hospital, 2008, np). Digital media may be transforming the language and cultural practices that enable the development of emergent literacy skills. A new generation of young children is experiencing a new kind of interconnectedness in the language they see, hear, and use. For example, a young child may observe a sister talking with a friend, texting (writing) the friend, and then reading the text. Young children are increasingly surrounded by language sculpted by digital media, and this process has implications for the way their neural circuitry learns to speak, listen, read, and write (Small & Vorgan, 2008)." (Page 2)
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"Wie Armut in Medien ein Gesicht gegeben wurde, durch welche manifesten Kommunikationsinhalte sich auf gesellschaftliche Armutsverhältnisse rückschließen lässt, welche Rollen Medien und deren Konsum im Leben von Armutsbetroffenen einnehmen und wie es den medialen Mittlern von Armut ergeht: Diese
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n Fragen widmet sich diese Ausgabe anhand einzelner Kristallisationsmomente. Es sind Versatzstücke einer Kommunikationsgeschichte von Armut, die medien&zeit in historischer Erstreckung von 1900 bis heute aufblendet." (Editorial, Seite 3)
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"Children growing up in homes with many books get 3 years more schooling than children from bookless homes, independent of their parents’ education, occupation, and class. This is as great an advantage as having university educated rather than unschooled parents, and twice the advantage of having
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a professional rather than an unskilled father. It holds equally in rich nations and in poor; in the past and in the present; under Communism, capitalism, and Apartheid; and most strongly in China. Data are from representative national samples in 27 nations, with over 70,000 cases, analyzed using multi-level linear and probit models with multiple imputation of missing data." (Abstract)
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"This book seeks to address the complex and multi-faceted relationships between childhood, media, migration and globalisation. Our primary focus is on a specific group that has often been invisible or misrepresented in the debate: that is, migrant children. We are particularly concerned with childre
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n who have migrated in their own lifetimes – that is, first generation migrants – rather than the more established ‘ethnic minority’ communities that now exist in many parts of the world. In this respect, we are addressing an issue that is of considerable concern in contemporary public and political debate: it is an emotionally charged topic that raises challenging questions about social cohesion, nationhood, belonging and citizenship. Yet despite the intensity of these debates, the experiences and perspectives of children themselves are rarely brought to bear – except where they are portrayed as passive victims or (increasingly) as a threat. By contrast, we argue that children are often central actors in the process of migration. They are in the ‘front line’ as migrant families come to terms with their lives in their new location; and they are often the focus for parents’ fears and aspirations for the future and for the tension between cultural continuity and change. The media are frequently a crucial element in this process. Children in migrant families are likely to experience a wide range of media, from local, national, transnational and global sources." (Preface)
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