Chapter 1
Teaching about the media
INTRODUCTION
Why teach about the media? There are a number of possible answers to this question, which derive from quite different views of the media and of young people. Yet most arguments for Media Studies begin with two significant assertions. The first concerns the amount of time children spend with the media. Statistics on television viewing, for example, suggest that children today spend more time watching television than they spend in school. If we add to this the amount of time spent watching films, reading comics and magazines, and listening to records, we arrive at figures which typically provoke a mixture of surprise and horror – particularly, perhaps, among teachers, who are ...
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