Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ640767
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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Playground Lost: Television, Video and Chinese American Children's Imaginative Play.
Berggreen, Shu-Ling
AsiaPacific MediaEducator, n5 p68-91 Jul-Dec 1998
Examines the role of American television and video in Chinese American children's culture of play and peer interaction using ethnography. Notes both White and Chinese children had access to similar media, yet they used media information very differently in their play. Calls for the media industry to reexamine their role in children's socialization process, i.e., learning through play. (RS)
Descriptors: Chinese Americans, Early Childhood Education, Ethnography, Mass Media Effects, Mass Media Role, Mass Media Use, Peer Influence, Play, Socialization, Television, Young Children
The Graduate School of Journalism, University of Wollongong, NSW 2522 Australia.
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
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Language: English
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