Stunting merupakan isu baru yang menjadi sorotan WHO untuk segera dituntaskan karena mempengaruhi fisik dan fungsional tubuh serta meningkatnya angka kesakitan anak. Nine psychologists, members of the Task Force on Television and Society, appointed by the American Psychological Association, have collaborated on Big World, Small Screen. Finally, they offer suggestions for research and public policy with the aim of producing programming that will enrich the lives of citizens all across the spectrum. Parents will be especially interested in what they say about television viewing and children. The illustrate the medium's potential to teach and inform, to communicate across nations and cultures-and to induce violence, callousness, and amorality. They go on to consider how television affects social interaction, intellectual functioning, emotional development, and attitudes (toward family life, sexuality, and mental and physical health, for example). This important book illustrates the power of television in stereotyping the elderly, ethnic groups, gays and lesbians, and the institutionalized and, thus, in contributing to the self-image of many viewers. Many in these groups are addicted to television, although they are not the principal audiences sought by commercial TV distributors because they are not the most lucrative markets for advertisers. Big World, Small Screen assesses the influence of television on the lives of the most vulnerable and powerless in American society: children, ethnic and sexual minorities, and women.

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