The role of media in childrens make believe worlds.

Author: Moon, Hyesung / Lemish, Dafna / Aidman, Amy / Götz, Maya
Published: 2003
Source: http://www.br-online.de
Publisher: Bush

Abstract

Maya Götz describes a study which was carried out to examine “The role of media in children’s make-believe worlds”. Television serves as the primary medium for children’s fantasies and can offer material for their make-believe worlds if the vision depicted by television is congruent with the children’s. The author found that children often adopt clichés presented to them via media uncritically. This calls for the media’s awareness of the contents they convey.

Moon, Hyesung

Born in 1958 in Seoul, is senior advisor in „KGIT (Korean German Industrial Technology)“ at the faculty for media education. She is also research fellow at the „Institute for Educational Research Yonsei University“ and lecturer at the Yonsei University.
She mainly deals with TV education for children. Some of her publications are “Media Education” Seoul, 2004; “Massmedia and children’s fantasies” in “Korean Society for Journalism and Communication" (2003); “Studies“, Seoul ,1999; “Between Confucianism and European thinking" (1999).

Lemish, Dafna

Prof. Dafna Lemish,
Dafna Lemish is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication at Tel Aviv University, Israel. Her research and teaching focus on the role of media in children's lives and on gender and media representations and consumption. Her publications include "Growing up with Television: The Little Screen in the Lives of Children and Youth" (Telaviv: Open University, 2003, in Hebrew); "Media Education Around the Globe: Policies and Practices" (edited with B. Tufte and T. Lavender, Hampton Press, 2003); and many book chapters and articles in academic journals.

Aidman, Amy

Amy Aidman (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1993) is Assistant Dean in the College of Communications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and has faculty appointments with the Institute of Communications Research and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois.
She is the former Research Director for the Center for Media Education, a Washington D.C. based research and policy organization. Her scholarly activities center on the relationship between children and media, media literacy, and media policy and culture.

Götz, Maya

Maya Goetz, Ph.D.,
born in 1967 is the head of the international Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television (IZI) at the Bayerischer Rundfunk.
Her main field of work is research in the area of "children/young people
and television". In addition to that she works and publishes in the field
of gender-specific reception research. Her publication included: "Girls
and Television" (KoPäd: Munich 1999, in German); "Only Soap Bubbles?
Significance of Daily Soaps for Children and Adolescents" (KoPäd: Munich
2002, in German).