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Fake, Fact, and Fantasy

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Children's Interpretations of Television Reality

Fake, Fact, and Fantasy

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Fake, Fact, and Fantasy book

Children's Interpretations of Television Reality
ByMaire Messenger Davies
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1997
eBook Published 19 September 2013
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203811177
Pages 256
eBook ISBN 9780203811177
Subjects Humanities
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Davies, M.M. (1997). Fake, Fact, and Fantasy: Children's Interpretations of Television Reality (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203811177

ABSTRACT

Based on a study examining the meaning of the term "media literacy" in children, this volume concentrates on audiovisual narratives of television and film and their effects. It closely examines children's concepts of real and unreal and how they learn to make distinctions between the two. It also explores the idea that children are protected from the harmful effects of violence on television by the knowledge that what they see is not real.

This volume is unique in its use of children's own words to explore their awareness of the submerged conventions of television genres, of their functions and effects, of their relationship to the real world, and of how this awareness varies with age and other factors. Based on detailed questionnaire data and conversations with 6 to 11-year-old children, carried out with the support of a fellowship at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, the book eloquently demonstrates how children use their knowledge of real life, of literature, and of art, in intelligently evaluating the relationship between television's formats, and the real world in which they live.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|7 pages

The Mediated World: The Uses of Media Literacy

chapter 2|13 pages

The Real World-and the Real Child

chapter 3|14 pages

Reality Perception on TV

chapter 4|13 pages

Formal Features, Literature, Art, and Education

chapter 5|19 pages

The Sample and the Study

chapter 6|15 pages

The Interview Methodology: Recognizing the Not Real

chapter 7|11 pages

''A Show for Little Kids": Sesame Street

chapter 8|8 pages

"Everyone is Talking About Ross Perot":

chapter 9|9 pages

"A Comedy Fiction Type of Thing": The Cosby Show

chapter 10|14 pages

"It's Supposed to Be a Fairytale": The Sand Fairy

chapter 11|15 pages

Modality: Conversations About the Relationship of Art to Life

chapter 12|12 pages

"Charming Our Leisure": Why Media Matter

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