The `Face at the Window' study

A fresh approach to media influence and to investigating the influence of television and videos on children's imagination

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ID11268097
AuthorsTeresa Belton (University of East Anglia, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume22
Issue5
Pages629-643
Publication date2000-09-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedia Culture & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0163-4437 • E-ISSN: 1460-3675
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/016344300022005006
OpenAlexW1987617652
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited10

This article suggests a non-prescriptive notion of the concept of `influence', and points out the shortcomings of simply questioning viewers in attempting to elicit subtle forms of influence by the media. It describes the methodology of a study which took an indirect and multi-pronged approach to investigating how television and videos might exert an influence on the storymaking of 10-12-year-old children. The combination of stories, interviews and other data made it possible to contextualize, rather than isolate, the role of television- and video-viewing in the storymaking and lives of these children. Bringing a variety of qualitative data to bear on the question made it possible also to begin to see, in what has been hypothesized as the `psycho-cultural ecology', how the individual's relationship with and response to the screen is indeed individual, while closely tied in with broader family dynamics, all of which are expressed in storymaking

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