Philadelphia Front Page News News In Brief: Temple professor challenges children’s programming creators to raise the bar forwarded by KYW Newsradio News frontpagenews1@yahoo.com
Above: Children viewing content they see.
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Kids’ attention spans are short, so watching many quick clips on YouTube or TikTok can be an easy time fill, but advertisements that come along with them can be unsavory and the algorithm may introduce them to unwanted themes.
Sherri Hope Culver, author of “The Quality Question: Why Children’s Media Must Aim High,” a report recently published by Temple University’s Center for Media and Information Literacy, says that’s why it’s important to find things relevant to children’s lives.
“... That show characters that reflect who they are and the issues that are important to them, that show them the world around them and help them empathize with that world — understand that world a little bit more,” Culver said.
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