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Broadcasting and Receiving: Children’s Television and Child Viewers

Questions asked by this panel examine various ideologies conveyed in children’s television programming as well as how children receive and negotiate such messages. Pregnancy, parenthood, educational authorities, and child audiences will all be scrutinized in order to better understand what programs like Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, Doc McStuffins, Rugrats, Caillou, and Wansapanataym have to say about childhood and the power structures they negotiate.

Presentations

Bringing Home Baby: How Popular Children’s Television Programs Depict the Addition of a New Sibling

Presenters

Amy Franzini

“We don’t use words like that here”: Representing the Childcare Educator in Popular Television

Presenters

Sandra Chang-Kredl Katherine Marie Pauls

The Moral of the Story: An Audience Study on the Effects of Wansapanataym in Cultivation of Values among Children

Presenters

James Whelheem Gasara

Session chairs

Sandra Chang-Kredl