Introduction: Why a handbook on children and the media?
The popular media as educators and socializers of growing children : preliminary comments from the editors
Cildren's uses and gratifications
The history of children's use of electronic media
Free reading : implications for child development
The use of television and other film-related media
New forms of electronic media : the impact of interactive games and the internet on cognition, socialization, and behavior
Cognitive functions and school-readiness skills
Attention, comprehension, and the educational influences of television
Television and the child's developing imagination
Television as incidental language teacher
Creating vigilance for better learning from television
Prosocial effects on children's social interactions
Some hazards of television viewing: fears, aggression, and sexual attitudes
The media and children's fears, anxieties, and perceptions of danger
Effects of televised violence on aggression
Media violence in cross-cultural perspective : a global study on children's media behavior and some educational implications
Research on sex in the media : What do we know about effects on children and adolescents?
Sex in the media : theory, influences, and solutions
Personality, social attitudes, and health
Mass media and identity development
Media and the family
Television's gender role images and contribution to stereotyping : past, present, future
Television, children, and multicultural awareness : comprehending the medium in a complex multimedia society
Children and television advertising
Popular music in childhood and adolescence
Children, adolescents, drugs, and the media
Television food advertising : targeting children in a toxic environment
Television and morality
Forging the media environment for the future: the media industry and its technology : preliminary comments from the editors
The economic structure of the commercial electronic children's media industries
Broadcast networks and the children's television business
Serving the very young and the restless : children's programming on public television
Prix jeunesse as a force for cultural diversity
Cable television : gateway to educational resources for development at all ages
Children, the internet, and other new technologies
Hazards and possibilities of commercial TV in the schools
The role of research in educational television
Policy issues and advocacy : preliminary comments from the editors
Children and media policy
Industry standards and practices : compliance with the children's television act
Child and parent responses to the age-based and content-based television ratings
Digital kids : the new on-line children's consumer culture
Public policy and private practice : government regulations and parental control of children's television use in the home
Parents and other adults : models and monitors of healthy media habits
Media literacy and critical television viewing in education
Children's advocacy groups : a history and analysis