Children and Television

Both in academic research and in popular debates about television, children are frequently identified as a special audience with distinctive characteristics and needs. Although watching television is a routine everyday activity for people of all age groups, it is often children who are singled out for particular attention and concern. Their behaviour is closely measured and monitored; they are experimented upon, surveyed and canvassed for their views; and the ‘problem’ of their relationship with television is frequently a focus of concern among parents, pundits and politicians.

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