1st Edition
Improving Children's Critical and Creative Thinking Using Media Through Traditional and Digital Media
Introduction. 1. Common Parental Questions 2. Violence in Media and Its Impact on Children 3. Applying Media and Communication Technology for Child’ Skills Improvement 4. Confronting Stereotypes in Media as Obstacles to Critical Thinking 5. Safeguarding Children; Addressing Children’s Fear from Films Characters and Protection from News 6. Teaching Online Ethics to Children 7.Improving Children’s Advertisement Literacy 8. Media and Child Sexual Education 9. Teenagers and Online Space
Biography
Mania Alehpour is pursuing her second PhD at UNSW. In her current PhD thesis, she is investigating how adolescents use social media to improve their mental health. For her first PhD, she studied children's interpretation of critical concepts in animated movies. Throughout her career, she has focused on various aspects of media and children.
