Television: Its Impact on School Children

Recent studies have shown that children in is difficult at this point to estimate its longhomes with television are spending very conrange effects, but it is possible to assess some siderable amounts of time watching TV proof the effects to date, and to speculate about grams. What will be the effects of this massive the implications of these effects for the future. exposure to a new mass medium on the deThe author is a lecturer in the Department veloping personality of the child? On relationof Social Relations and a research associate in ships within the family? On social interaction the Laboratory of Human Development at among children? Since television is so new, it Harvard University.