EDITORIALS

Parents need a one-stop-shop for screen information

Parents need a one-stop-shop for screen information

EDITORIAL‹ BACK TO TOPICS Parents need a one-stop-shop for screen information   Dr Catherine Page Jeffery Lecturer in Media and Communications Department of Media and Communications | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences The University of Sydney    ...

Defending Children’s Rights as Media Consumers

EDITORIAL‹ BACK TO TOPICS Defending children’s rights as media consumers Children and Media Australia (CMA) is always active in advocating for a healthy screen environment for children, and for their rights as media consumers. Here’s some of the issues we’ve tackled...

Big Tech, Big Business and the Lives of Children

EDITORIAL‹ BACK TO TOPICS Big Tech, Big Business and the Lives of Children by Susan Linn, Ed.D.       The harms of society affording corporations unfettered access to children are well-documented. Targeting kids with advertising and marketing has long been...

Exposure to violent media and its effects on children

EDITORIAL‹ BACK TO TOPICS Assoc. Prof. WAYNE WARBURTON  Developmental Psychology, Macquarie U.  ACCM VICE PRESIDENT  I keep seeing reports in the media that new findings show that violent media have no negative impacts on children, and that it is time to let that idea...