1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460152003321

Autore

Lemish Dafna <1951->

Titolo

Children and media : a global perspective  / / Dafna Lemish

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex, [England] ; ; Malden, Massachusetts : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-118-78706-4

1-118-78708-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Disciplina

302.23083

Soggetti

Mass media and children

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Copyright Page; Brief Table of Contents; Contents; Preface; Companion Website; Introduction; Why Media (Now, More than Ever)?; Why Children (Only)?; Why Global? (But Is It?); About this Book; Notes; References; Chapter 1 Media and Children at Home; The Role of Context; Media Diffusion in the Family; The Role of Media in the Fabric of Family Life; The social uses of television; Parenting Styles and Mediation; Media-related conversations; Television as a talking book; Conversations with siblings and peers; Mediating fear reactions; Concluding Remarks; Notes; References

Chapter 2 Media and Individual DevelopmentDevelopmental Theories; Attention to and Comprehension of Screen Content; Development of attention to audio-visual content; Relationship between attention to television and comprehension; Development of Viewing Preferences; Development of Fantasy-Reality Distinction; The development of genre distinction; The importance of distinguishing between screen fantasy and reality; The development of understanding of television characters; The development of moral judgment; Identification with Media Characters; Children's Fear Reactions

Television, Imagination, and CreativityA Conceptual and Methodological Reflection; Notes; References; Chapter 3 Media, Learning, and Literacy; Media and School - Two Educational Systems; Viewing Television and



School Performance; The Audio-Visual Language and Cognitive Skills; The development of special viewing skills; Learning from Educational Television; New Media Learning and Literacy; Gaming and learning; Television and Language Acquisition; Acquisition of native language; Acquisition of second language; Concluding Remarks; Notes; References; Chapter 4 Media and Health-related Behaviors

Media and Violent BehaviorsLearning violent behaviors; Cumulative effects of media violence; Intervening variables; Media, Sex, and Sexuality; Gender and social expectations; Pornography and teenage sexuality; Media and Advertising; Advertising for children; Social and emotional wellbeing, and advertising; Is advertising working?; Media, Alcohol, and Smoking; Media, Obesity, and Eating Disorders; Body image and eating disorders; Media and Pro-social Behavior; Concluding Remarks; Notes; References; Chapter 5 Media and Perceptions of Self and Society; Media and Gender

Construction of gender rolesConstruction of gender identity; Gay identities; The Social Construction of Reality; Violence and the mean world hypothesis; Materialism; Perceptions of "us" in comparison to "others"; Cultural integration of immigrant children; The Construction of Political Reality; The construction of conflicts; Peacebuilding interventions; Edutainment genres; Americanization and Globalization; What is "America"?; Concluding Remarks; Notes; References; Chapter 6 Media, Sociality, and Participation; Social Networking; Comparing offline and online relationships

Marginalized identities

Sommario/riassunto

Taking a global and interdisciplinary approach,<i> Children and Media</i> explores the role of modern media, including the internet, television, mobile media and video games, in the development of children, adolescents, and childhood.<br /><br /><ul><li>Primer to global issues and core research into children and the media integrating work from around the world</li></ul><ul><li>Comprehensive integration of work that bridges disciplines, theoretical and research traditions and methods</li><li>Covers both critical/qualitative and quantitative approaches to the topic</li></ul>



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454824503321

Autore

Ochs Carol

Titolo

Our lives as Torah [[electronic resource] ] : finding God in our own stories / / Carol Ochs ; foreword by Lawrence Kushner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, : Jossey-Bass, c2001

ISBN

1-280-35070-9

9786610350704

0-470-24498-4

0-7879-5853-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

296.7

Soggetti

Spiritual life - Judaism

Jewish way of life

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-215) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Searching for meaning -- Forming our story -- Committing to love -- Enduring suffering -- Undertaking our work -- Claiming our body -- Engaging in prayer -- Living in community -- Confronting death -- Encountering God.

Sommario/riassunto

In this powerful book, Carol Ochs shows us how to develop a personal theology by examining our life stories, learning to recognize God at work in them, and bringing them into conversation with Torah. Using timeless biblical texts as lenses to see the present, she helps us understand who we are and who God is for us by exploring the tightly interwoven basic elements of our lives--our love, suffering, work, bodies, prayer, community, and experiences of death. Through the process of seeing our experiences in relation to Biblical stories, we begin to recognize our lives as part of the ongoing st