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Impact of Media on Children
\n\nThis document discusses the impact of media on children and outlines several concerns. It notes that media like television, the internet, and cell phones can erode the role of parents as children's main source of information and guidance. Excessive media exposure is linked to increased aggression, earlier sexual activity, substance use, obesity, and other health issues in children and teens. However, media also has the potential for prosocial effects when used appropriately and with parental involvement. The document calls for balance and guidance to help children navigate media's influence.
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Introduction to the effects media has on children, presented by Bernadette J. Madrid, MD.
Globalization leads to reduced parental roles as children access vast information via technology.
Children and teens are becoming more knowledgeable about technology, creating a new cultural landscape.
Mass media, especially television, is a primary entertainment source for families, influencing children's preferences and spending.
Young girls in the Philippines show desires shaped by media, including beauty standards influenced by advertising.
Materialistic values in teens are strengthened by frequent exposure to commercials, leading to pressure for certain images.
Media impacts children's health through exposure to violence, sexual content, substance use, obesity, and developmental concerns.
Research links exposure to violent media to increased aggression in teens and adults.
Sexual content in media is correlated with earlier sexual initiation and higher rates of teen pregnancy.
Advertising and media portrayals significantly influence adolescent smoking and drinking behaviors.
Research indicates that exposure to food advertising shapes children's food choices and increases obesity risk.
Excessive media exposure can lead to language delays in infants, highlighting developmental concerns.
Encouraging parents to engage with children through media can foster discussion and understanding.
Media can nurture prosocial effects, including tolerance, empathy, and even improvement in certain skills.
Insights into online viewing behaviors across countries like China, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
Diverse uses of cyber technology ranging from communication to financial transactions.
The cyber world holds dangers including abuse, sexual aggression, and adverse health effects.
A significant number of children aged 12-17 are viewing internet pornography.
Research on high school students' risky online behaviors demonstrates significant risks for harassment.
Sexting is a growing concern, with serious implications for youth privacy and safety.
The quality of time spent with various influences shapes children's health and welfare.
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Impact of Media on Children
- 1. IMPACT OF MEDIA ON CHILDREN BernadetteJ. Madrid, MD Executive Director Child Protection Network Foundation
- 2. Globalization • The role of parents is being eroded by myriad of information exchanges among individuals by internet and cell phones.
- 3. Information Technology • Children are discovering the world without guidance of their parent who are less and less equipped to follow them or assist them in making sense of the information that bombard them.
- 4. Technology Reality • Children& Teens tend to know much more than the adults • New language, new frontier, new culture – part of the reality or landscape of children/youth
- 5. Intrusion of MassMedia Television is affordable; goes straight into people’s homes; does not need literacy. No.1 source of entertainment of family. Ave daily time viewing TV in the Phil= 3:30
- 6. Commercialization • Purchasing powerof • “Cradle-to-grave” children school of marketing. • Children as young as 2 years are influenced by advertising.
- 7. In the Philippinesyoung girls want long hair…
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- 9. Materialism • Considerable pressureon Teens to conform to a certain image and they go to great lengths to create that image. • Children who frequently watched television commercials held stronger materialistic values than did peers who watched TV commercials less often. Buijzen and Valkenburg, 2003
- 10. Health Effects ofMedia • Violence and Aggression • Sex • Substance Use • Obesity • Developmental Concerns • Prosocial Effects
- 11. Violence and Aggression •Exposure to violent media (movies, violent videogames, violent internet sites, TV) predicted subsequent increases in aggression in teens. (Slater, 2003) • Exposure to television violence in childhood predicted increased aggressive behavior in adulthood. (Huesmann et al., 2003)
- 12. Sex • Watching sexon TV predicts and may hasten adolescent sexual initiation. • Reducing the amount of sexual content in entertainment programming, reducing adolescent exposure to this content or increasing references to and depictions of possible consequences of sexual activity could appreciably delay the initiation of sex in teens. Collins, Elliot, Berry, et al. 2004 Pediatrics. 114;e280
- 13. Sex Does Watching Sexon Television Predict Teen Pregnancy? (Findings From a National Longitudinal Survey of Youth) Results: Exposure to sexual content on TV predicted teen pregnancy. Teens exposed to high levels of sexual content were twice as likely to experience pregnancy in the next 3 years. Chandra, Martino, Collins, et al. 2008 Pediatrics. 122; 1047-1054
- 14. Mirror Cells Recent studiesshow that brain circuits fire in the same way when we observe someone doing something; as when we actually do it; this explains copying behavior. www.missingkids.com
- 15. Substance Use • Twolongitudinal studies have found that approximately one third of adolescent smoking can be attributed to tobacco advertising and promotions. (Biener & Siegel, 2000 and Pierce, et al., 1998) • Exposure to movie smoking at grades 5-8 predicts smoking initiation 1 to 8 years later. (Dalton, Sargent, et al., 2003; Dalton, Beach, et al., 2009)
- 16. Substance Use • Exposureto pro-alcohol messages represents a significant risk factor for later adolescent drinking. (Grube & Waiters, 2005)
- 17. Obesity • Existing researchindicates that advertising affects children’s food preferences, food choices and food intake are shaped by their exposure to food advertising.
- 18. Developmental Concerns • Thereare several studies that have documented the possibility of language delays among infants exposed to excessive television or videos. Strasburg, Jordan, Donnerstein, 2010 Pediatrics; 125:756-767
- 19. Protective Factor Parents watchingtelevision, movies, etc. with their children and discussing with them the content.
- 20. Prosocial Effects • Canlearn antiviolence attitudes, tolerance, empathy, respect for elders, altruism • Video games can be beneficial e.g. improving compliance with chemotherapy; eye-hand coordination • Can be used as a tool to educate • Stimulate adolescent connectedness
- 21. Online Viewing Leadersin the World • China • Indonesia • Philippines • India • Mexico Nielsen,August 2010
- 22. Different uses ofthe cyber technology • Meet old or long lost friends • Meet new friends • Easy communication access • A site for discussion • Research • Money transfer
- 23. the dark sideof the cyber world • Prone to abuse • Sexual aggression • Sex exploitative or commoditized use of sex • Impact on brain development • Health problems • Impact on physical development
- 24. INTERNET PORNOGRAPHY • Thelargest group of viewers of Internet porn is children between ages 12 and 17 (Family Safe Media, December 15, 2005).
- 25. Risky Online Behaviorsof Third and Fourth year High School Students in a Public and Private High School in Metro Manila Predisposing to Sexual Solicitation and Harassment : Cross Sectional Study Marivie A. Flores, Merle P. Tan, Germana Gregorio, M.D (Winner, PPS Research Contest)
- 26. Results • Adolescents’ Risky Online Behaviors : Posting personal information - 91% Chatting with unknown people - 58% Having many unknown people in friends list - 46% Opening x-rated web sites - 23 % Eyeball with people met online - 9% Flores, Tan, Gregorio (2009)
- 27. Results Theodds of experiencing internet harassment and/or sexual solicitation is twice for those: Sending personal information online, interacting with unknown persons, Having unknown persons on the buddy list Using the internet >5x a week …. but the odds are increased 4x for those visiting x-rated websites. Flores, Tan, Gregorio (2009)
- 28. Results 23% of adolescentsexperienced internet harassment; 50% sexual solicitation; 28% both sexual solicitation and harassment Flores, Tan, Gregorio (2009)
- 29. Sexting •- is a term coined by the media that generally refers to youth writing sexually explicit messages, taking sexually explicit photos of themselves or others in their peer group, and transmitting those photos and/or •National Center forto their messages Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) peers
- 30. Social danger withsexting is that material can be very easily and widely promulgated, over which the originator has no control
- 31. Cases of Sextingare not rare • We are now seeing cases of teens being brought to the Child Protection Unit because of videos taken by cell phone while they were having sex with their boyfriends.
- 32. “Life events unfoldover the course of time. Who children spend time with – be it parents, peers, teachers, clergy, media characters – and the context and content of that time spent provide important parameters of the health and welfare of children.” Baltes, Reese, & Nesselroade 1988