The Effects of Media on Kids - Annotated Bibliography Example

Annotated Bibliography: 800 ~ 1000 words, a minimum of 15 references s marked * were accessed thought the UCUM online library databases Arnett, J. J., (2007) Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents and the Media. Thousand Oaks: SAGE (Hard copy in UMUC library) This is a useful basic reference books for research the relationship between children and the media. The books covers a wide range of media from TV to the internet to Rock music to video games. It has a lot of good research of all these areas and their effects on children. It also looks at the effects of censorship and if this helps children or not. 2. Bignell, J. (2002) ‘Writing the Child in Media Theory’. The Yearbook of English Studies, Vol. 32 pp. 127-139* (Available on JSTOR database) This article looks at the overlap, through children’s access to adult programming on TV and children’s exposure to adult media in day-to-day life, of media designed for adults and children. It discusses how a study of this phenomenon can be approached and how existing methodology focuses on adult media for adults and child media for children. It also discusses how far adults should be allowed to protect children from the harmful effects of media. 3. Bovill, M., & Livingstone, S. M. (2001) Children and their Changing Media Environment: A European Comparative Study. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates* (Accessed through the NetLibrary database) This book is interesting because it gives a European perspective on the relationship between children and the Media which might be useful as a comparison with American children and might also provide new areas to consider in the American situation. It looks both at the changing position of the child in society and the changing role of the media in society. 4. Davidson, S. & Winfield, B., eds. (1999) Bleep! Censoring Rock and Rap Music. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press (Hard copy in UMUC library) This book looks at attempts to censor rock and rap music to protect children from violent or offensive lyrics. The collection of articles looks at the debate of freedom of expression against the need to keep children safe and shifts between regarding censorship as a useful way to protect children on one side, and adult censoring of children’s music as ‘cultural conservatism’ on the other side. 5. Foehr, U. G., & Roberts, D. F., (2004) Kids and Media in America. Cambridge: Cambridge Univerisity Press* (Accessed through the MLA Bibliography database) This books looks specifically at the media in the US, rather than a broad Anglophone perspective like the other books. It looks at all media, not just TV and is a survey of children and teenagers in the US. It is useful because it looks at the different effects of different types of media on children and so is more broad than the other books. It is from a media studies perspective. 6. Gotz, M. (2005) Media and the Make-believe Worlds of Children. Oxford: Routledge* (Accessed through the PsycINFO database) This book examines how children invent make-believe worlds and in particular how their daily experiences make part of their imaginary worlds. The media is seen as a strong influence on children in this book, and shows how the media is very central to children’s lives and is very subtle in how it enters children’s consciousness. This book approaches the issues from a psychology point of view. 7. Herumim, W., (2004) Censorship on the Internet: From Filters to Freedom of Speech. Berkley Heights, N.J: Enslow Publishers (Available at Library of Congress) This book looks specifically at protecting internet users from harmful media. It tries to find where the limit is between protecting users and stopping free speech. It is useful because it looks at a different media source to the other books and is the only on to look only at the internet. 8. Jordon, A. B., (2008) ‘Children’s Media Policy’, The Future of Children, Vol. 18, (No. 1) pp. 235-253)* (Available on JSTOR database) This article looks at how the positive and negative effects of the media can be balance in legislation. It looks at the philosophical argument over censorship for protecting children under the First Amendment’s stated aim of protection of free speech. It also looks at the legal reality in the US in how courts rule over these issues. It also address the imbalance between TV legislation and Internet legislation to protect children internet users from online media. This is an approach which looks a lot at legislation. 9. Kieran, M., (1997) Media Ethics: A Philosophical Approach. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing This book looks at the effect of the media on children and also discusses the issue of censorship. It attempts to decide where the moral boundaries are for the media and if there are areas that the media should avoid and things that it shouldn’t say, especially when targeting children. The books considers if the media has obligations to protect the people is targets. Maybe the media should sometime be censored. This book is from a philosophy point of view. 10. Kirsh, S. (2006) Children, Adolescents and Media Violence: A Critical Look at the Research* Thousand Oaks: SAGE (Accessed through the MLA Bibliography database) This book is very specific because it looks at the negative effects of the media on children, concerned in particular with violence. It contains different views on the issue of violence and is useful because it looks at the methodology which people use when they research media violence. It also shows the development in the debate through time. It is good as a base for my own work. It is from a sociology research methods perspective. 11. Levesque, R. J. R., (2007) Adolescents, Media and the Law: What Developmental Science Reveals and Free Speech Requires. NY: Oxford University Press US, American Psychology-Law Society Series This books is interesting because it contains both a psychological argument for the effects of media on children but also a legal point of view from how much the media can say and cannot say and what responsibilities it currently has in American law when it targets children and adolescents. The books looks at the science of the effect of the media on children and suggests ways in which the law can be changed to avoid problems for children. This book has a law point of view. 12. Simmons, J. Ed. (1994) Censorship: A Threat to Reading, Learning and Thinking. Newark, Delaware: International Reading Association (Hard copy in UMUC the library) This books examines the debate of censorship of children’s literature. The author’s perspective is that censorship can be damaging if it is used to strictly control the school curriculum and limit children from exploring a range of literature. The articles in this collection go from case studies of censorship in schools to how traditional fairy stories are being censored for their potentially corrupting influence on children. 13. Singer, J. (2002) Handbook of Children and the Media. Thousand Oaks: SAGE* (Accessed through the PsycINFO database) This books is very useful because it contains articles by different experts on the debate on children and the media. It has different points of view and different arguments about the problem. It includes information on how children have access to media, how they use media and how the media can be positive and negative for children. It looks at electronic media, not just the TV. This book is from a mixture of perspectives, like sociology, psychology and media studies. 14. Strasburger, V. C., & Wilson, B.J. (2008) Children, Adolescents and the Media. Denver: University of Colorado Press* (Accessed through the MLA Bibliography database) This books looks at a selection of media and its effects on children. It looks in particular at the effect of mass media on the health of the public and the problems that mass media causes for the national health. It has a broad range of areas, from music to internet to advertising and video games and it considers how these cause things like eating disorders and image anxiety. It is useful because it provides a wide range of scenarios which the media could work in. It is from a sociology perspective. 15. Valenti, F. M. Ed.(2000) More than a Movie: Ethics in Entertainment. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press* (Hard copy in the library) This books examines specifically films and the moral responsibility censorship has to protect children from harmful image of sex and violence. There is a series of articles which argue both sides of this debate, some saying that there should be tight controls on films and age restriction and others saying that freedom of speech is important. There is an important decision between influence and responsibility. 16. Various authors, (1979 - ) Media, Culture and Society, London; New York* (Hard copy in UMUC library) The library has this journal which debates the relationship of media and society from 1979. It is available online and contains lots of useful articles for the debate over media censorship and children 17. Various authors, (1977 - ) The News Media and the Law, Buffalo N.Y: William S Hein & co. (Hard copy in UMUC library) The library has this journal which looks at the laws which the news media have to follows. It contains a lot of good articles on the legal side of the media censorship debate. 18. Zillmann, D. Ed. (1994) Media, Children and the Family: Social Scientific, Psychodynamic and Clinical Perspectives. Hillsdale, New Jersey: L. Erlbaum Associates (Hard copy in UMUC library) This book looks at the way children consume media in the family from a social and psychodynamic perspective. It examines how different family setting and situations have an effect on the way the children in those families consume, use and respond to media exposure. It looks at a wide range of media from TV violence to pornography, examining the effect this has on children’s development in their families. Read More