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ERIC Number: EJ238633
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1981-Jan
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The Day Our Children Disappear: Predictions of a Media Ecologist.
Postman, Neil
Phi Delta Kappan, v62 n5 p382-86 Jan 1981
Television erases the dividing line between childhood and adulthood because it requires no instruction to grasp its form and because it does not segregate its audience. Television creates a population in which everyone is fixed at an age somewhere between 20 and 30. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Child Role, Children, Commercial Television, Elementary Secondary Education, Programing (Broadcast), Television
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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