Search for dissertations about: "media and children"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 103 swedish dissertations containing the words media and children.

  2. 1. Effects of online advertising on children's visual attention and task performance during free and goal-directed internet use : A media psychology approach to children's website interaction and advert distraction

    Author : Nils Holmberg; Humanistlaboratoriet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; online advertising; children; website interaction; visual attention; distraction; cognitive load; eye-tracking; task-orientation; media effects; visual saliency; executive functions; media literacy; inhibitory control;

    Abstract : This dissertation consists of four eye-tracking studies that investigate how salient online advertising and children's level of executive function contributes to their advert distraction. In Study 1, children aged 9 were instructed to surf freely on the internet while all advert material appearing on-screen was registered. READ MORE

  4. 2. Play, Culture and Learning : Studies of Second-Language and Conceptual Development in Swedish Preschools

    Author : Robin Samuelsson; Per Ledin; Stina Hållsten; Karin Aronsson; Södertörns högskola; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; early childhood education; ECEC; preschool; play; affordances; embodiment; multimodal; interaction; second-language development; conceptual development; culture; cultural affordances; digital tools; artefacts; perception; förskola; förskolepedagogik; didaktik; förskola; lek; affordanser; kroppslighet; multimodalitet; interaktion; andraspråksutveckling; begreppsutveckling; kultur; kulturella affordanser; digitala redskap; artefakter; perception; Utbildningsvetenskapliga studier; Studies in the Educational Sciences;

    Abstract : This dissertation studies how second-language and conceptual development emerge through interactions in Swedish preschool environments. It studies how types of interaction, such as play, can scaffold children toward such developments. READ MORE

  5. 3. Screen Rites : A study of Swedish young people´s use and meaning-making of screen-based media in everyday life

    Author : Ulrika Sjöberg; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Leisure; Audience research; Media landscape; Media use; Young people; Internet; Television; Computer games; Meaning-making; Press and communication sciences; Journalistik; media; kommunikation;

    Abstract : We are all aware of how many different media have become a familiar equipment in the home, perceived as any other furnityre. The media have become more or less unconsciously intertwined in everyday routines. READ MORE

  6. 4. Musicalized Characters : A study of music, multimodality, and the empiric child perspective on mainstream animation

    Author : Signe Kjaer Jensen; Jørgen Bruhn; Kirsten Drotner; Anahid Kassabian; Birger Langkjær; Linnéuniversitetet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Animation; music; children; interview; reception; film music; characters; audiences; multimodality; Musikvetenskap; Musicology; Film Studies; Filmvetenskap; Media and Communication Science; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap;

    Abstract : This thesis is an audience reception study of film music and animation film. It focuses on the musical construction of characters, looking at how music becomes meaningful in film and how this meaning becomes part of child audiences' interpretation of filmic characters. READ MORE

  7. 5. Targeting Children Online : Young internet users and producers in the commercial media environment

    Author : Carolina Martinez; Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; internetreklam; internet; reklamspel; barn; reklamproducenter; marknadsförare; mobilspel; virtuella världar; online advertising; internet; mobile games; children; advertising professionals; marketers; virtual worlds; tactics;

    Abstract : Children’s daily internet usage takes place to a large extent in a commercial environment, where advertising and the sale of virtual goods are ever-present parts of the online experience. The overall goal of this thesis is to contribute to a critical understanding of children’s commercial online environment as spaces for children’s everyday life activities and participation, and as spaces for commercial interests that seek to target children and monetize their internet usage. READ MORE