CINE 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Musical Notation, Computer Language, Spoken Language
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Chapter 1: defining children, media, and culture (cont: chronological age versus maturity. How we define childhood is strongly linked to chronological age in ways that are not always consistent. Ex: high schoolers (younger than 18) think they can know everything, have good judgement and intellectual maturity to make own decisions rather than parents and teachers making them but they are still legally a child". Print is a medium", television is a medium", print, television, film and the internet are media". A medium" is a communicative form, a channel of conduit through which information is passed. Media" have to be defined in the broadest possible sense, because children are exposed to all kinds of communicated forms from the day that they are born. Media are all the means whereby children learn about and define the world we live in. To the extent that all these objects, experiences, and cultural products convey information and meanings, they are media.
