Favourite Country as a Measure of Television-Mediated World View.

Autor/inn/en	Broddason, Thorbjorn; und weitere
Titel	Favourite Country as a Measure of Television-Mediated World View.
Quelle	(1986), (30 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Adolescents; Attitude Change; Attitude Measures; Foreign Countries; Intermediate Grades; Junior High Schools; Longitudinal Studies; Mass Media Effects; Preadolescents; Questionnaires; Social Structure; Surveys; Television Research; Television Viewing; Iceland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Attitudinal change; Einstellungsänderung; Ausland; Mittelstufe; Sekundarstufe I; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Pre-adolescence; Präadoleszenz; Fragebogen; Sozialstruktur; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Fernsehkonsum; Island
Abstract	This report on a study conducted in Iceland to determine the relationship between mass media--especially television--and the attitudes of preadolescents and adolescents toward foreign countries begins by reviewing the following topics: (1) the history of television from its start in 1966 to the present in Iceland; (2) the origins of Icelandic television programs; (3) the question of "favorite country"; (4) the notion of cultivation theory; and (5) the social functions of video tapes. The research procedures and the results of three questionnaire-type surveys used with several hundred 10- to 15-year-old Icelanders (grades 4-9) in 1968, 1979, and 1985 are then discussed. This discussion covers the students' responses to questions on what country they would move to if they had to move away from Iceland; reasons for the student's choice were requested only on the 1985 survey. Also discussed are the cultivating effects of television as determined by a comparison of students' television-viewing habits and their choice of country, as well as how their preferences had changed over time, how they perceived the world around them, and the relationship between their world views and their use of the mass media. Tables summarize major findings from each of the surveys, and it is suggested that there has been an increase in the role of television as an agent of socialization and a corresponding diminution in the role of the school. Eleven tables and 29 references are included. (CGD)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC