TV-Turnoff Week 2007 April 23th - 29^th

TV-Turnoff Week 2007 April 23th - 29th

Doctors urged to monitor patient’s screen time -- American Academy of Pediatrics wants doctors to investigate the time children are sat in front of the television

http://www.whitedot.org/issue/iss_story.asp?slug=AAP_urges_doctors

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Understanding the Impact of
Media on Children and Teens – American Academy of Paediatrics

http://www.aap.org/family/mediaimpact.htm

It's Official:
TV Linked to Attention Deficit

babies and toddlers parked in front of the TV have a much higher risk of developing ADHD by age 7, a new study shows

by Jean Lotus

http://www.whitedot.org/issue/iss_story.asp?slug=ADHD%20Toddlers

Kids 'At Risk' From TV

Updated: 14:21, Monday February 19, 2007

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1252271,00.html

Schools get help for 'too sexual' pupils – Daily Telegraph – 18 July 2006

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/07/18/nsex18.xml

The generation of 'damaged' girls – Daily Telegraph – 21 Feb 2007

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/20/ngirls20.xml

The New Global Leader in Demographic Decline - South Korea –  Lifesitenews -- 5 January 2007

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2007/jan/07010508.html

MESSAGE OF THE HOLY FATHER BENEDICT XVI FOR THE 41st WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY Theme: "Children and the Media: A Challenge for Education" May 20, 2007

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/messages/communications/documents/hf_ben-xvi_mes_20070124_41st-world-communications-day_en.html

 Media's Nasty Impact on Youth -- Themes of Sex and Violence Take Their Toll – Zenit -- CHICAGO, AUG. 19, 2006

http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=93480

The impact of Entertainment Media Violence on children and families – Iowa State University

http://www.extension.iastate.edu/families/media/

TV Facts  -- Red Branch -- 13 March 2007

http://www.red-branch.com/tv_facts.htm

Video Nasty -- Too Much TV – Red Branch – 13 March 2007

http://www.red-branch.com/lifestyle_news.htm#23_February_2007:_Video_Nasty-Too_much_TV

TV Tips – Red Branch – 13 March 2007

http://www.red-branch.com/tv_tips.htm

Video Violence: Kids See, Kids Do ---Studies Track the Negative Effects of Media Exposure – Zenit -- NEW YORK, DEC. 10, 2005

http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=81415

Living in a Material World where ‘television is poison’

Concern is rising internationally over the effect of tv on the young. But not just the young! The BBC program – making Slough happy, which documents some psychologists’ attempts to raise the ‘happiness level’ in the English town of Slough concludes that one way to make yourself happier is to cut your TV viewing by half. So now it’s official. Even pop star Madonna, the one who’s ‘living in a material world’, has said that ‘television is poison’ and bans her children from watching it except for one video on Sundays. But if you’re not careful that could just be a case of ‘out of the frying pan and into the fire’. What’s really making the psychologists sit up and ruminate this Christmas is the rising level of violence in video games. It’s the interactive nature of video games which cause the most trouble, and the better graphics in something like the new Xbox 360 video-game console make them all the more realistic, probably heightening the aggression-causing effect as compared with either non-interactive games or games with less vivid imagery.

The American Psychological Association (APA) have even recommended that violence be reduced in video games marketed to children and youth. For a conservatively liberal group like the APA to take this stand, it must be serious, and it is. Among the video games around this Christmas is one that features graphic scenes of cannibalism. Another one discussed on the Newstalk 106 radio station last week is about the Baghdad war!

For all the increase in realism aided by mushrooming technology, ironically, one type of realism typically missing from these games is that of the consequences of violent acts. "Showing violent acts without consequences teach youth that violence is an effective means of resolving conflict, whereas seeing pain and suffering as a consequence can inhibit aggressive behaviour," says APA psychologist Elizabeth Carll. All the more surprising then that the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland’s (BCI) proposed new Code of Programme Standards fails even to mention this, a fact highlighted in The Family and Media Association’s (FMA) submission to the BCI last month.

TV-Turnoff Week 2007 April 23th - 29th
Children watch estimated 18,000 murders on TV by age 18 and over 200,000 acts of violence

By Hilary White

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 20, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - TV-Turnoff Week is a project of the Washington-based non-profit group Center for Screen Time Awareness that encourages children and adults to watch much less television. Their annual promotion includes two programs TV-Turnoff Week and More Reading, Less TV, “to help people, especially children, to turn off TV and turn on life”.

65 national organizations, including the American Medical Association, the National Education Association, and the American Academy of Pediatrics, support or endorse TV-Turnoff Week. Since 1995, more than 24 million people have participated.

More Reading, Less TV is a four-week program that has involved 30,000 students. A study showed that students who took the program improved their reading habits and attitudes toward reading, watched less television, read more, and participated in more screen-free activities than before.

Recent statistics from Neilson show that the average American household has 2.75 televisions with 50 per cent having three or more, and the average American watches 4 hours and 35 minutes of TV a day.

Katherine Westphal creator of the TV Free System says, “Children watch an estimated 18000 murders on TV by the time they turn 18 and over 200,000 acts of violence. Parents spend an average of 38 minutes per week in meaningful conversation with their children, compared with watching 31½ hours of TV, and television has been found to cause ADHD symptoms in young children.”

To register:
http://www.tvturnoff.org/index.html

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Editorial: In denial about on-screen violence

• 21 April 2007
•  
• Magazine issue 2600

Why are we so reluctant to accept that on-screen violence is bad for us?

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19426003.600-editorial-in-denial-about-onscreen-violence.html

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Mind-altering media

• 19 April 2007
• Helen Phillips
• Magazine issue 2600

The electronic age is changing our brains, but are we getting smarter, or dumb and dangerous? New Scientist investigates

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19426001.900-mindaltering-media.html