Media and it's impact on human development ?

Abdulaziz Alghamdi

10/8/2018

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Media is one significant aspect of how kids would grow up, view the world around them,

and interact with each other and with people around them. According to BBC, youngsters aged

five to sixteen spend an average of six and a half hours a day watching TV compared with

around three hours in 1995. Furthermore, when a kid watches TV for countless hours, s/he

would spend less time interacting with the world around them which could make it difficult for

a child to socialize with his/her surroundings.

The article that I will be using for this paper would be " Interactive Media Use at

Younger Than the Age of 2 Years." DR. Dimitri A. Christakis, the director of the Center for Child

Health, Behavior and Development at Seattle Children's Research Institute, was the author of

this article. He is the author of more than 170 original research articles which makes him a very

active member in the health community. Moreover, the article was published in May 2014.

Moreover, I want to make a comparison between how many hours kids watch TV now

and back in the 1990's. I also want to show how TV has affected how the older generation has

developed, and how it is affecting our kids now.

Today many children are spending more time with screen media than ever. The more

time children spend watching TV or playing on their parent's phones, the less time they would

spend out discovering the real world. Moreover, youngsters need to spend more time playing

with their family and friends because human interaction helps them to know how to act in the

real world.

For this, I will be citing a chapter from the book "Journal of Applied Developmental

Psychology." The book was published in January 2015 by Alexis R.Lauricella, Ellen Wartella, and

Victoria Rideout. Both Alexis and Ellen have a Ph.D. and have worked for a while researching

media, and its effects on children. Ms. Rideout founded VJR Consulting in 2010, and since then

the firm's have been working with Northwestern University's Center on Media and Human

Development and other organization to understand how media affect children development.

I still have to do more research on the topic, and im thinking about adding a section in

my paper about how could TV and media help in developing children cognitive thinking.

Moreover, there is more article about the percentage of kids using phones without supervision.

Refrences:

Lauricella, A. R., Wartella, E., & Rideout, V. J. (2015). Young children's screen time: The complex

role of parent and child factors. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 36, 11-17.

Kabali, H. K., Irigoyen, M. M., Nunez-Davis, R., Budacki, J. G., Mohanty, S. H., Leister, K. P., &

Bonner, R. L. (2015). Exposure and use of mobile media devices by young children. Pediatrics,

peds-2015.