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Article: Parent and Child Perspectives on the Presence and Meaning of Parental Television Mediation.
- Article from:
- Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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A growing body of literature on parental mediation of children's television viewing reveals that parents' or other adults' behaviors regarding television has a significant effect on children's reactions to television. In fact, the American Academy of Pediatrics urged pediatricians to assess, among other things, the extent to which parents talk to children about television and impose viewing restrictions, seemingly under the assumption that such behaviors protect children from undesirable television-related effects (Committee on Public Education, 1999). However, we still don't know very much about mediation, and calls have been made to discover why certain kinds of ...