How are new technologies changing media usage?

The growth of media has had an ever-expanding role in the lives of children, especially in terms of a child's physical and mental health. Here, Michael Rich, MD, MPH, director of the Center on Media and Child Health at Children's Hospital Boston, comments on media as a force that powerfully affects child development, health, and behavior. Paying particular attention to TV, movies, music, and video games, Rich offers perspective on common concerns over media and suggests ways to avoid the media's negative effects.

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• children

[EricNyhmfan]

@michellesexyfeline If "more interactive TV" is referring to the internet the best thing to let a kid do on the internet is to not have any filters what so ever. When they see the full scope of the internet they won't stop at the ads. But more importantly than that is teach children to question even if it undermines what you are telling them, that means that you will become better at arguing and your kid will have a higher opinion of you.

[michellesexyfeline]

By making television more of an interactive experience perhaps we are moving towards a dangerous zone, if a child feels as though they are experiencing interaction with the increasingly popular enhanced programming available will they be less inclined to actually go out to play with peers? Or on the other side of the coin is the more stimulating and active interactive aspects saving children from just becoming couch potatoes,