Children And The Media

This guide is intended as a research tool to help you locate background information, books, articles, and internet/web links on a variety of children and the media.

Background Information Sources

Available in the library's reference area:

Child Development REF HQ 772.C436 2002
Childhood and Children; radio and television chapter REF HQ 781.B45 1997
Handbook of Children and the Media REF HQ 784.T4 S533 2000
Media Violence and Children REF HQ 784.V55 M43 2003
It’s Not the Media REF HQ 799.2 M35 S84 2003
Encyclopedia of Communication and Information, v. 1 REF P87.5 E53 2002
Ill Effects: The Media/Violence Debate REF P96.V5 I55 2001
Violence and the Media REF P96.V5 N48 1996
Encyclopedia of Television, v. 1; Children & Television REF PN1992.18 E53 2004

Books

Search the library catalog for books on your subject using words or word combinations below, or visit the library’s 2nd floor and browse HQ767-799 (child development), P87-96 (communications, mass media), and PN1560-2000 (performing arts & drama).

  • mass media
  • radio
  • children
  • violence
  • advertising
  • sexual content
  • child development
  • movie ratings
  • television
  • images

Newspaper, Magazine, and Academic Journal Articles

Internet Resources

Several internet resources have been selected below. Additional links are available from Web Resources page; follow link for Communications.

  • National Institute on Children and the Family
    http://www.mediafamily.org/
    a non-profit, non-partisan organization examining the impact of media on families.
  • Parents Television Council
    http://www.parentstv.org
    grassroots, non-partisan organization geared towards parents making media decisions.
  • American Civil Liberties Union
    http://www.aclu.org
    Organization committed to preserving constitutional rights such as free speech.
  • Kaiser Family Foundation
    http://www.kff.org
    see section of reports and research about the effect of media on children
  • Children’s digital media center
    http://cdmc.georgetown.edu/
    consortium of universities examining how media impacts child development
  • Center on Media and Child Health
    http://www.cmch.tv/
    Extensive literature collection about the impact media has on children’s health.