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Children and Television

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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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  1. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

    Jens Qvortrup (Professor of Sociology) (Professor of Sociology)

  2. Indiana University, Bloomington, USA

    William A. Corsaro (Robert H. Shaffer Endowed Chair in the Department of Sociology) (Robert H. Shaffer Endowed Chair in the Department of Sociology)

  3. University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

    Michael-Sebastian Honig (Professor of Social Work) (Professor of Social Work)

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Buckingham, D. (2009). Children and Television. In: Qvortrup, J., Corsaro, W.A., Honig, MS. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Childhood Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-27468-6_24

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