By Mitchell Toy From: Sunday Herald Sun July 18, 2010 SOCIAL media networks such as Facebook and Twitter are making teen web surfers dumber, more than half of their parents believe. But less than half believe the sites are impacting on their health and wellbeing. New cyber-safety research commissioned by Telstra reveals 65 per cent of...
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http://thestir.cafemom.com/big_kid/105790/alcohol_pushed_to_kids_on Posted by Jeanne Sager on July 2, 2010 at 11:45 AM Parents, it’s time to stop worrying about perverts on Facebook. And start worrying about the marketers. The alcohol marketers. If your child signs on to Facebook today and enters their real age — anything under 21 — there’s nothing to stop them from...
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/7858189/Are-Twitter-and-Facebook-affecting-how-we-think.html Are Twitter and Facebook affecting how we think? Is constant use of electronic gadgets reshaping our brains and making our thinking shallower? Neil Tweedie reports. By Neil Tweedie Published: 7:08AM BST 28 Jun 2010 How many times do you click on your email icon in a day? Or look at Facebook, or Twitter? And...
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http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/life/home_family/excess-tv-computer-video-gaming-linked-to-poor-attention-in-kids-study–97781374.html By: Sheryl Ubelacker, Health Reporter, The Canadian Press 5/07/2010 3:06 AM TORONTO – Children who spend many hours a day glued to the TV or playing computer video games may be harming their ability to concentrate and focus on tasks in school, researchers suggest. A study by psychologists at Iowa State University found that...
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This ad is from Smoke Free Movies. It appeared for the first time in January 2010. Printer-friendly PDF.
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Source: Children’s Hospital Boston Monday 2, 2009 Description: In the first longitudinal study of its kind, researchers show that TV viewing before the age of 2 does not improve a child’s language and visual motor skills. The study suggests that maternal, child and household characteristics are more influential to a child’s brain development. Newswise
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"Who tells the stories of a culture really governs human behavior. It used to be the parent, the school, the church, the community. Now it’s a handful of global conglomerates that have nothing to tell, but a great deal to sell." – George Gerbner ACME Accuracy in Media AdBusters Alliance for a...
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