We are against it.

Author: Götz, Maya
Source: http://www.br-online.de]

Abstract

Questioning children in Germany on their understanding of the war in Iraq, some of them saw the Americans as aggressors who used underhanded tricks and enjoyed shooting children. They expected to receive more information from the media on the plight of people in Iraq. Maya Götz examines to which extents these events affect children, what emotions are associated with media coverage of warfare and what lasting memories children retain.

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).