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Children Australia

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The Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare
ISSN 1035-0772 (Print), 2049-7776 (Online)

doi.org/10.1017/S031289700000148X

Article type: Original Research

PUBLISHED 1 January 1979

Volume 4 Issue 2

doi.org/10.1017/S031289700000148X

Article type: Original Research

PUBLISHED 1 January 1979

Volume 4 Issue 2

The Impact of Media on Children in Australia Today

Kelvin B. Canavan

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Kelvin B. Canavan

Kelvin B. Canavan

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Abstract

Children in Australia are spending more time with the mass media than with any other single activity, sleeping excepted. The average child spends three hours a day sitting in front of television and another couple of hours with films, radio and the press.

The considerable influence of television has been well documented. A summary statement in Children and Television, Senate Standing Committee on Education and the Arts, 1978, says:

“Clearly television has emerged as the dominant experience in the life of the average Australian child …”(4.33)

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