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This document discusses the effects of mass media and modern technology on children's development. It outlines both positive and negative impacts on physical, social-emotional, and cognitive development. It then proposes several policy recommendations and programs to help empower mass media in shaping children's lives positively. These include establishing public online centers, institutionalizing distance education, implementing media literacy programs in schools, and passing legislation around limiting violent/sexual content and strengthening cybercrime laws. The role of families in setting reasonable guidelines for internet use is also discussed.
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- 7. means of communication that reachlarge numbers of people in a short time, such as television, newspapers, magazines, and radio Mass Media
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- 9. NEWSPAPERS publication containing newsand information and advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint
- 10. BOOKS a collection ofsheets of paper, parchment or other material with a piece of text written on them, bound together along one edge within covers
- 11. MAGAZINES a periodical publication containinga variety of articles, generally financed by advertising and/or purchased by readers
- 12. COMICS medium of expression inwhich images, often incorporating text, convey information such as narratives
- 13. BROCHURES advertising pieces mainly usedto introduce a company or organization, and inform about products and/or services to a target audience.
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- 15. TELEVISION a telecommunication mediumfor transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome (black and white) or colored, with or without accompanying sound.
- 16. RADIO wireless transmission of signalsthrough free space by electromagnetic radiation of a frequency significantly below that of visible light, in the radio frequency range, from about 30 kHz to 300 GHz
- 17. MOBILE PHONE a devicethat can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link while moving around a wide geographic area.
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- 19. ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK onlineservice, platform, or site that focuses on facilitating the building of social networks or social relations among people who, for example, share interests, activities, backgrounds, or real-life connections.
- 20. ONLINE GAME played oversome form of computer network, using a personal computer or video game console. This network is usually the internet or equivalent technology
- 21. BLOG is a discussionor informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order
- 22. WIKIPEDIA collaboratively edited, multilingual, free internetencyclopedia supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation
- 23. Effects of MassMedia and Modern Technology on Children’s Development
- 24. POSITIVE Physical Growth Development enhancechildren’s performance in singing and dancing through active engagement with program content
- 25. POSITIVE Social and EmotionalDevelopment help clarify emotions, reflect anxieties and hopes and recognize problems while suggesting solutions to overcome hardships and worries
- 26. POSITIVE Social and EmotionalDevelopment keep in touch with friends and family, and forms online communities with others who share their interests
- 27. POSITIVE Cognitive Development extend children’s understanding oftheir world repetition and reinforcement of activities from TV programs like Sesame street exposes children to numbers, letters and vocabulary
- 28. NEGATIVE Physical Growth Development Obesityin children due to excessive time in front of a television screen exposed to vision problems, seizures, hand injuries, and other muscular-skeletal complaints
- 29. NEGATIVE Social and EmotionalDevelopment Playing violent computer games has been linked with increased aggression. forms “weak ties” with real family and Friends because of new acquaintances met online
- 30. NEGATIVE Cognitive Development Watching toomuch TV and engaged in Online Games has made activities such as homework and reading more boring and more difficult
- 31. Proposed Policy orPrograms to Empower Mass Media in Shaping Children’s Lives
- 32. Executive Action Public OnlineNetworking and Community E – Centers provide the communities with internet access, a public calling station, reading, learning and resource center to address their information needs
- 33. Executive Action Institutionalization ofDistance Education universities and colleges should be encouraged to offer distance education, schools should invest in workforce training, self-learning module development, multimedia planning and production, monitoring and evaluation, etc.
- 34. Executive Action Media andInformation Literacy Program in Schools empower children and the youth to demand or advocate for and produce content or programs which will promote their total development and meet their social, cultural, political and spiritual needs
- 35. Legislative Action Proposed lawsto curb sex and violence in mass media Senate Bill 1351 seeks to limit exposure of children to violent programming on TV and cable system Senate Bill 2539 seeks to penalize advertising and media companies which exploit women and glorify sexual violence in advertisements Senate Bill 2345 prohibits the public exhibition or display of obscene and/or distractive motion or still pictures along major thoroughfares
- 36. Legislative Action Proposed lawson child pornography and cyber crimes Implementation of anti-child pornography law ICT has urged pornography through new platforms such as mobile phones and digital cameras, pirated VCDs and DVDs, etc. It has facilitated the speedy production, possession and distribution of pornographic photos and videos.
- 37. Legislative Action Amendment tothe National Council for Children’s TV Mandate Its present mandate has been limited to television, they can promote the use of new media as platforms for child development and child participation
- 38. The Role ofFamily and Community Parents as responsible internet users Parents and other adults can only “guide” their children on responsible Internet use if they themselves have adequate digital literacy.
- 39. The Role ofFamily and Community Reasonable guidelines on the use of internet families can be encouraged to place computers in shared rooms (such as living rooms, dining rooms, offices or libraries), where children will not be isolated and will use the Internet with others around them schools and parents should teach children never to share personal information (name, address, telephone) online
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