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Article: Rebecca A. Clay: “Unraveling new media’s effects on children”

 

Quote #1:  “Although there are still many more questions than answers, one thing is becoming clearer as psychologists continue their research: No electronic medium’s effects are all good or all bad; it’s the content that makes all the difference.”

 

This quote, to me, was a great way to sum up media’s effects on children in a new light.  It’s a view on media that could be considered a gray area on a topic that I would venture to say most parents have a strong opinion one way or the other. The reasoning is very convincing, what children are exposed to is the true culprit of harming or educating our children through media.  By identifying the content as the problem she has shifted overall blame of poisoning children’s minds from media to the parents who allow bad content to be viewed.

 

Quote #2:  “Of course, television’s effects can also be positive. Plenty of psychologists have been trying to harness television’s power to help educate children”

 

I completely agree that television can be used as a wonderful tool for a positive impact on children lives.  What I , and most children, were told about media was that media use would damage our brains and had no real benefit.  In my own experience, I have seen my daughter learn sign language while learning to speak.  Her communication skills greatly improved in both languages at an early stage all while being “entertained” by media.  But this quote does leave room for argument.  You could argue that most anything can be positive providing the duration, content, context, and medium are appropriate.  For example, sugar can also be positive provided the amount, duration, and frequency are taken into account.

 

Quote #3:  “‘For years, psychologists interested in answering that question had their funding proposals turned down at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health,’ says Jeff McIntyre….’founders would say, “we’re not going to pay for someone to study kids’ video games. that’s silly.`”

 

This grabbed my attention for a few reasons, one was that it shows how old this article and the research referenced is, and secondly how far our society has come in regards to the adaptation of media.  NSF and National Science Institute of Health founders underestimated the growth and intricacy that media would play in our everyday lives in the years to come.  It goes to show how the topic of media effecting children has been split from the beginning.  Certain psychologists recognized the future impacts of media while the other side down played the new past time as a small and “silly”.

 

 

Peer Response 2 (Pick one of the 3 response and write a minimum 100 word response (Example: Yes I agree with you, ……….)

 

Article: Rebecca A. Clay: “Unraveling new media’s effects on children.”

 

Quote #1: “No electronic medium’s effects are all good or all bad; it’s the content that makes all the difference.”

 

With the vast capabilities of “electronic mediums” comes a wide assortment of content. This, combined with the fact that people learn very differently,

makes it difficult to make a blanket statement about its effects on children. Some children might learn better visually through images and shapes, while others learn through auditory stimulus, and games that depict a lot of violence are going to have a much different effect than games that require you to solve puzzles and use different strategies.

 

Quote #2: “I consider myself a stealth educator,” says Calvert. “What I want to do is foster a quality media environment for kids.”

 

I think that this is an interesting approach to teaching children. Instead of shunning electronic devices and media, I believe that it is better to embrace and use them because it allows a more complex way of learning that just reading a textbook. I do think textbooks have importance, however they can be supplemented by other tools of learning.

 

Quote #3: “Probably the clearest evidence we have that television influences children’s thinking and behavior is the fact that advertisers invest literally billions of dollars trying to influence the perceptions, choices and behaviors of children through advertising,” says Wilcox.

 

I’m not too sure that advertisers spending money trying to sell their products means that they are somehow influencing children’s thinking and behavior. There definitely is a reason as to why advertisements work and why they result in increased sales for a particular product. However, this effect could simply be caused by the fact that advertisements make you familiar to a particular product rather than them affecting your thinking and behavior.

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