"A look at the world media landscape for children and youth immediately presents two opposing themes: opportunities and risks. For example, globalization of media brings opportunities to broaden children’s outlooks and provide more equal access to information, but it also threatens cultural identi
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fication and values. Technological advances bring the promise of new skills and greater youth participation in society, but also increase the risk of child exploitation and informational divides. There is an urgent need for societies to both protect youth and empower them to shape their own media environments, as spelled out by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and increasingly by media experts and educators around the globe. This overview of trends and issues concerning young people and the media is based on a broad review of existing print and electronic sources, interviews with child media experts from different regions, and analysis of InterMedia’s surveys in transitional and developing countries. The trends and issues highlighted here—from young people’s media options and behavior, to the quality and influence of media aimed at them—all point to the need for more effective use of the vast positive potential of mass media and new technologies to advocate for, and enrich the lives of, children and young people worldwide." (Page 3)
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"'Medios y salud: La voz de los adolescentes' explora la relación existente entre los medios de comunicación, los adolescentes y la salud en adolescentes de 12 a 19 años de edad en varias localidades de 11 paÃses de América Latina, especialmente en términos del rol de los medios de comunicaciÃ
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³n masiva en la vida cotidiana de los adolescentes. La investigación aborda temas como cuáles medios de comunicación son más accesibles para los adolescentes, cómo utilizan estos medios, qué mensajes relativos a la salud encuentran en los medios, qué piensan los adolescentes sobre estos mensajes y cómo utilizan la información que reciben sobre los temas de salud." (Resumen)
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"Dieser Sammelband umfasst 19 Beiträge zu den Themenkomplexen: Entstehungsgrundlagen und Konstruktionsprinzip der MedienNutzerTypologie; Ergebnisse für Hörfunk, Fernsehen, Online und den Werbemarkt; Medienübergreifende Handlungsmuster im Alltag; Typologische Analyse des Nutzungsverhaltens in aus
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gewählten Themenfeldern; Erfahrungsberichte von Programmverantwortlichen." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"This study presents some results obtained during a first stage of a very long study to be carried out on the communication media and the political attitudes of the students of the universities of Latin America — Relationships between the use of the mass media and the socio-economic conditions —
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Knowledge of international problems and political activities at the University of Costa Rica." (Jean-Marie Van Bol, Abdelfattah Fakhfakh: The use of mass media in the developing countries. Brussels: CIDESA, 1971 Nr. 1362, topic code 352, 04, 172, 262, 452)
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