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Communication Research and Broascasting No. 13

"Children, Television and the New Media.
A Reader of Research and Documentation in Germany."


Edited by Paul Löhr und Manfred Meyer
Luton: University of Luton Press 1999. 450 pages. Paperback, £25.-
ISBN 1 86020 567 4



Children, Television and the New Media - What were the basic issues in the dicussions and research interests relating to this area in Germanspeaking countries within the last decade?
  • Children's Television in Transformation
  • Internet and Multimedia
  • Television Forms and Formats
  • The Violence Issue
  • Adolescents and Their Media Worlds
  • Music on Television


  • Content:
    Chapter 1: Do Children Need Television?

    Bettelheim, Bruno
    Do children need television?

    Livingstone, Sonia; Bovill, Moira; Gaskell, George
    European TV kids in transformed media worlds
    The UK study

    Friedrich Krotz
    European TV kids in transformed media worlds:
    Findings of the German study

    Rogge, Jan-Uwe
    How a child experiences reality.
    Educational conditions in its adaptation to the environment beyond the influences of the media

    Schmidbauer, Michael; Loehr, Paul
    TV kids - "New socialisation types "?


    Chapter 2: Children's Television in Transformation

    Schmidbauer, Michael; Loehr, Paul
    Children in the 90s' media market

    Weiler, Stefan
    Computer kids are avid TV viewers

    Bachmair, Ben
    Children's television in transformation?
    Something's going on in children's bedrooms


    Chapter 3: Internet and Multimedia

    Groebel, Jo
    Launching into the virtual reality world

    Gehle, Tobias
    Children in the Internet

    Schmidbauer, Michael; Loehr, Paul
    Youth Online


    Chapter 4: Television Forms and Formats

    Schmidbauer, Michael
    Television formats and the child's processing of programmes

    Loehr, Paul
    Understanding - yes or no?
    Designing children's news on television

    Schmidbauer, Michael
    Not a dumping ground for sensations and disasters

    Kaufmann, Sabrina; Loehr, Paul
    Cartoons in media research

    Loehr, Paul
    Children and TV advertising.
    Research findings


    Chapter 5: The Violence Issue

    Theunert, Helga; Schorb, Bernd
    "Terrific scenes" - children and televised information.
    A study of children's reactions to violence on the screen

    Schmidbauer, Michael
    How do children observe and come to terms with violence on TV?

    Borcsa, Maria; Charlton, Michael
    Media violence and media education.
    How adolescents handle action films

    Theunert, Helga; Schorb, Bernd
    Chaos and fun knock out "He-Man"


    Chapter 6: Adolescents and Their Media Worlds

    Schmidbauer, Michael; Loehr, Paul
    Youth media and youth scenes.
    Results of a current survey

    Vogelgesang, Waldemar
    Adolescent media behaviour: Scenes, styles, competence

    Eimeren, Birgit van; Maier-Lesch, Brigitte
    Adolescents and politics on television


    Chapter 7: Music on Television

    Willander, Arne
    Back in the days of rock, pop and youth

    Wanger, Daniela; Ilsemann, Philipp; Pataky, Christian
    "I'm crazy about Techno."
    An interview with Daniela (15), Philipp (16) and Christian (16)

    Schmidbauer, Michael; Loehr, Paul
    Programmes for young people:
    Music videos on MTV Europe and VIVA



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