Table of Contents
A Dialogue on Children’s Televsion . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
The Culutral Opportunity of Children’s Television 4
Valerio Fuenzalida
1. Changes in Children’s Television Landscape . . . 4
A. Baby TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Limitations of Baby TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Potential of Baby TV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
B. Programs specially designed for
preschool age children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Recognition of child audience on cable . . . . . 7
Television consumption motivations . . . . . . . 7
Semiotic representation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Ludic imagination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2. Specific Autonomy of Children Television
“Educational” Potential Regarding
School Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
A. Entertainment and education . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3. Industrial-Cultural Policy in Digital Television . 14
4. Production and Reception. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
A. Operation and management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
A Response to “The Cultural Opportunity of
Children’s Television . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Ulrika Sjöberg
A. Televison and social change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
B. From text to context: Sites of meaning
making . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
C. Children’s programming in a convergence
culture: Swedish public service . . . . . . . . . . . 19
D. Methodological challenges and the young
media audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Young Children’s Leaning from Screen Media . . . . 22
Katharine Heintz and Ellen Wartella
A. Special audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
B. Young children and learning from the media . 24
C. Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Children’s Television Programming Opportunities . 29
David Kleeman
TV as a Learning Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Briefly Noted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Recommended Citation
Fuenzalida, Valerio; Sjöberg, Ulrika; Heintz, Katharine; Wartella, Ellen; and Kleeman, David
(2012)
"A Dialogue on Children’s Television,"
Communication Research Trends: Vol. 31:
Iss.
3, Article 1.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/crt/vol31/iss3/1