Research for Project

To get a better understanding of the effects of TV, we conducted our own research from books and the internet to gain more information that will prove useful.
Some of the books that we have read are: 'Television is Good for your Kids' by Dr. Marie Messenger Davies, 'Children and Television' by Bob Hodge & David Tripp and 'Understanding television' by Andrew Goodwin & Garry Whannel. These books have proven to be very useful in our research as they include statistics and quotes from interesting and reliable sources.
W have also looked at internet sites from news sites such as the BBC site to religious sites, expressing their open opinions, such as SSPXAsia.com.

We have collected some information from The American Academy of Paediatrics which has given us extremely useful statistics and results from tests that have been carried out relating children's behaviour or educational abilities to the effects of over watching TV or the contense of what programmes that the children viewed.

Some useful links that we found to be interesting to collect further information were:

http://www.boloji.com/parenting/00208.htm - A blog by Kamna Raj expressing her personal views of todays TV viewing and how children should not idolise the characters seen in cartoons but everyday heroes such as policemen and fire fighters.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/oct/14/tv-children-harmful-effects - A section by the Guardian questioning the true danger of TV, whether we should restrict the amount of TV a young child watches or whether we should just ignore the warnings and make our own minds up.

http://www.femail.com.au/effectoftvonchildren.htm - An article about how Disney films teach young children early life skills that, when taught early, can help children to continue using the skills they have learned and develop them as they grow up.