mass media and children

"[This book] is about how early childhood educators and professionals can prepare children for their digital future. Detailed descriptions of media literacy competencies, along with dozens of activities, strategies, and tips designed for children ages 2-7, demonstrate how to integrate foundational skills, knowledge, and dispositions into existing routines as well as experiment with new lessons"--Adapted from back cover.

Explains how the Internet and digital media have impacted major aspects of modern culture, discussing how digital technologies have changed the ways people work, learn, and socialize.

Explains what disinformation is, why and how people distort facts, the difference between fact and opinion, and how to deal with the distortion of facts in online information.

A collection of twenty-three essays that offers varying persepctives on issues related to media violence.

Examines the youth social culture attraction to sex appeal, and discusses body image, Barbie versus Bratz, and the many ways popular culture sends messages about sexuality, which includes television, film, music, and more; and focuses on providing advice for parents that face similar issues.

Study and study has shown that viewing media violence encourages aggressio, desensitization, and pessimismin children.

Examines the youth social culture attraction to sex appeal, and discusses body image, Barbie versus Bratz, and the many ways popular culture sends messages about sexuality, which includes television, film, music, and more; and focuses on providing advice for parents that face similar issues.