Abstract

DELORME, Maria Inês de Carvalho. As crianças e as notícias da televisão. Educ. Rev. [online]. 2013, vol.29, n.01, pp.205-223. ISSN 0102-4698.

This paper shows part of the results of a doctorate research concluded in 2008 in Brazil on the relationship that children between 6 and 8 years of age established with the news broadcast on television. This study focused on children characterized as active participative individuals, who like to express opinions and feel capable to question certain standards from television and the adult environment, in situations of interaction with their peers. The main purpose of the research that originated this article was to know and understand the preferences of the children involved, the observations they make from what they see, their feelings, and the types of connection between their experiences and the television news, in an analysis that involved the production, and considered the broadcasting data, reaching the repercussion and impact of the news in their lives. Three categories that emerged from the field are presented and discussed in this paper: the more or less news, the news filmed backwards, and the lost ones. The children involved in this research were assured and valued with regards to their discourses with their whole bodies and with their stories, and those established a permanent counterpoint with what the theoretical discourses say about them, as well as with what the legal discourse ensures them. Along this trajectory, this investigation of ethnographic aspect demanded close approximation between Education and the knowledge of Childhood Sociology, current socio-historical Psychology, Social Communication, and Literary Theory. In conclusion, some answers are presented on the rejection identified in the children to the journalistic text and to the news they have access on TV. Nevertheless, all of them stated being impossible to live without television and the news.

Keywords : Child; News; Television; Social Participation.

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