Gordon L Berry
Introduction
Television as a Worldwide Cultural Tapestry
PART ONE: TELEVISION AND THE DEVELOPING CHILD IN A MULTIMEDIA WORLD
John P Murray
The Developing Child in a Multimedia Society
Catherine N Doubleday and Kristin L Droege
Cognitive Developmental Influences on Children's Understanding of Television
Marguerite Fitch, Aletha C Huston and John C Wright
From Television Forms to Genre Schemata
Children's Perceptions of Television Reality
Patricia Marks Greenfield et al
The Program-Length Commercial
A Study of the Effects of Television/Toy Tie-Ins on Imaginative Play
Dorothy G Singer
Creativity of Children in a Television World
James A Anderson and Milton E Ploghoft
Children and Media in Media Education
Gordon L Berry
The Medium of Television and the School Curriculum
Turning Research into Classroom Practice
PART TWO: TELEVISION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CHILD'S WORLDVIEW
George Comstock
The Medium and the Society
The Role of Television in American Life
Bradley S Greenberg and Jeffrey E Brand
Cultural Diversity on Saturday Morning Television
Edward L Palmer, K Taylor Smith and Kim S Strawser
Rubik's Tube
Developing a Child's Television Worldview
Richard L Allen
Conceptual Models of an African-American Belief System
PART THREE: TELEVISION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CHILD'S UNDERSTANDING OF DIVERSE POPULATIONS
Sherryl Browne Graves
Television, the Portrayal of African Americans, and the Development of Children's Attitudes
Haney Geiogamah (Kiowa) and D Michael Pavel (Skokomish)
Developing Television for American Indian and Alaska Native Children in the Late 20th Century
Darrell Y Hamamoto
They're So Cute When They're Young
The Asian-American Child on Television
Federico A Subervi-Vélez and Susan Colsant
The Television Worlds of Latino Children
Nancy Signorielli
Television, the Portrayal of Women, and Children's Attitudes
Peter M Kovaric
Television, the Portrayal of the Elderly, and Children's Attitudes
Elaine Makas
Changing Channels
The Portrayal of People with Disabilities on Television
PART FOUR: FUTURE PERSPECTIVES ON PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN
Dale Kunkel
Policy and the Future of Children's Television
Gordon L Berry
Public Television Programming and the Changing Cultural Landscape
Horst Stipp
The Challenge to Improve Television for Children
Geraldine Laybourne
The Nickelodeon Experience
Joy Keiko Asamen
Epilogue
What Children Learn from Television and How They Learn It