Comstock explores the effects of television viewing on children's daily experience, scholastic achievement, belief and perception formation, consumer behavior,

This volume explores how television has been a significant conduit for the changing ideas about children and childhood in the United States. Each chapter connec

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This second edition of a trend-setting volume provides an updated examination of the interaction between families and the most pervasive mass medium: television

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