EDITORIALS
Is “Screen Time” outside of schooling having a detrimental effect on imagination and creativity?
Is “Screen Time” outside of schooling having a detrimental effect on imagination and creativity? Heather Cheesman – Educator and Life-long Learner “The spaceship landed with a thud. The spaceship door creaked open….” When presented with a story starter like this it is...
Classifying games with loot boxes as M will do little to protect children from gambling harm
Classifying games with loot boxes as M will do little to protect children from gambling harm Prof. Nerilee Hing, Prof. Matthew Rockloff and Prof. Matthew Browne, Experimental Gambling Research Laboratory, CQUniversity Introduction The Australian Government has...
Can screen use increase children’s physical activity, and so their ability to thrive in a digital world?
EDITORIAL‹ BACK TO TOPICSCan screen use increase children’s physical activity, and so their ability to thrive in a digital world? Researchers: Leon Straker, Danica Hendry and Juliana Zabatiero School of Allied Health, Curtin University One of the common...
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...
Children and Advertising: The need for evidence-based regulation
EDITORIAL‹ BACK TO TOPICS Children and advertising: the need for evidence-based regulation Elizabeth Handsley President, CMA Advertising has been one of the recurring issues for CMA over the twenty-plus years that I’ve been working with the organisation. Even back...
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...