The effects of a narrative audiotape on preschoolers' entertainment experience and attention

Media Psychology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 47-72

  Ritterfeld, Ute ^a,b   Klimmt, Christoph ^c   Vorderer, Peter ^a,c   Steinhilper, Leila K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Hanover University of Music and Drama   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 13844281804     PISSN: 15213269     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S1532785XMEP0701_3     Document Type: Review

References (62)

1. Anderson, D. R., Choi, H. P., & Lorch, E. P. (1987). Attentional inertia reduces distractibility during young children's TV viewing. Child Development, 58, 798-806.
2. Beck, A. (1996). Listening to radio plays: Fictional soundscapes [Online]. Retrieved February 5, 2002, from http://www.interact.uoregon.edu/ MediaLit/mlr/readings/articles/listentoradio.html
3. Berlyne, D. E. (1960). Conflict, arousal, and curiosity. New York: McGraw-Hill.
4. Boecking, S., Klimmt, C., & Vorderer, P. (2004). Die drei Klassiker: Medienrepertoires von Vorschulkindern in konvegierenden Medienumgebungen [The three classics: Media repertories of preschoolers in convergent media environments]. In U. Hasebrink, L. Mikos, & E. Prommer (Eds.), Mediennutzung in konvergierenden Medienumgebungen, (pp. 271-296). Munich, Germany: Fischer.
5. Bosshart, L., & Macconi, I. (1998). Defining "entertainment. " Communication Research Trends, 18(3), 3-6.
6. Bryant, J., & Anderson, D. R. (Eds.). (1983). Children's understanding of television. Research on attention and comprehension. New York: Academic Press.
7. Bryant, J., Zillmann, D., & Brown, D. (1983). Entertainment features in children's educational television: Effects on attention and information acquisition. In J. Bryant & D. R. Anderson (Eds.), Children's understanding of television: Research on attention and comprehension (pp. 221-240). New York: Academic.
8. Calvert, S. (1999). Children's journeys through the information age. Boston: McGraw-Hill.
9. Calvert, S. L. (2001). Impact of televised songs on children's and young adults' memory of educational content. Media Psychology, 3, 325-342.
10. Calvert, S. L., Huston, A. C., Watkins, B. A., & Wright, J. C. (1982). The relation between selective attention to television forms and chidlren's comprehension of content. Child Developemnt, 53, 601-610.
11. Ekman, P., & Friesen, W. V. (1978). Investigator's guide: Facial action coding system. Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press.
12. Feierabend, S., & Simon, E. (2001). Was Kinder sehen. Eine Analyse der Fernsehnutzung 2000 von Drei- bis 13-Jaehrigen [What children watch: An analysis of television use 2000 of three- to thirteen-year-olds]. Media Perspektiven, 4, 176-188.
13. Gibbons, J., Anderson, D. R., Smith, R., Field, D. E., & Fischer, C. (1986). Young children's recall and reconstruction of audio and audiovisual narratives. Child Development, 57, 1014-1023.
14. Giles, D. (2002). Parasocial interaction: A review of the literature and a model for future research. Media Psychology, 4, 279-305.
15. Greenfield, P. M., & Cocking, R. R. (Ed.). (1996). Interacting with video: Advances in applied developmental psychology. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.
16. Greer, D., Potts, R., Wright, J. C., & Huston, A. C. (1982). The effects of television commercial form and commercial placement on children's social behavior and attention. Child Development, 53, 611-619.
17. Grueninger, C., & Lindemann, F. (2000). Vorschulkinder und Medien [Preschoolers and media]. Opladen, Germany: Leske + Budrich.
18. Hansen, C. H., & Hansen, R. H. (2000). Music and music videos. In D. Zillmann & P. Vorderer (Eds.), Media entertainment: The psychology of its appeal (pp. 175-196). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
19. Hayes, D., & Birnbaum, D. (1980). Preschoolers' retention of televised events: Is a picture worth a thousand words? Developmental Psychology, 16, 410-416.
20. Hoffner, C. (1996). Children's wishful identification and parasocial interaction with favorite television characters. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 40, 389-402.
21. Holsti, O. R. (1968). Content analysis. In G. Lindzey & E. Aronson (Eds.), The handbook of social psychology (Vol. 2, pp. 596-692). Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
22. Horton, D., & Wohl, R. R. (1956). Mass communication and para-social interaction: Observation on intimacy at a distance. Psychiatry, 19, 185-206.
23. Huston, A. C., & Wright, J. C. (1983). Children's processing of television: The informal functions of formal features. In J. Bryant & D. R. Anderson (Eds.), Children's understanding of television: Research on attention and comprehension (pp. 35-68). New York: Academic.
24. Iguchi, B. (1986). Pupunga, das Elefantenkind [Pupunga, the elephant child]. Hamburg, Germany: Friedrich Wittig.
25. Lemish, D., & Rice, M. (1986). Television as a talking picture book: A prop for language acquisition. Journal of Child Language, 13, 251-274.
26. Levin, S. R., & Anderson, D. R. (1976). The development of attention. Journal of Communication, 26, 126-135.
27. Lorch, E. P., & Castle, V. J. (1997). Preschool children's attention to television: Visual attention and probe response times. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 66, 111-127.
28. Machlis, J., & Forney, K. (1990). The enjoyment of music: An introduction to perceptive listening. New York: Norton.
29. McCutchan, M. E. (1983). Selective attention of young children to unfamiliar musical stimuli. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
30. Moser, E. (1985). Winzig, der Elefant [Winzig, the elephant]. Einheim, Germany: Beltz & Gelberg.
31. Neumann-Braun, K., & Guera, T. (1997). Hoermedien bei Kindern und Jugendlichen. Ein Literaturbericht zu Nutzung und Funktion [Auditive media, children and adolescents: A literature review on usage and functions]. Deutschunterricht, 49(3), 30-47.
32. Paus-Haase, I., Hoelterschinken, D., & Tietze, W. (1990). Alte und neue Medien im Alltag von jungen Kindern. Orientierungshilfen fuer Eltern und Erzieher [Old and new media in every-day life of young children: Hints for parents and educators]. Freiburg, Germany: Lambertus.
33. Ritterfeld, U. (2003). Auditive Aufmerksamkeit und Sprachlernen: Explikation eines impliziten Zusammenhangs [Auditory attention and language acquisition: Explicating implicit assumptions]. Sprachheilarbeit, 1, 4-10.
34. Roberts, D. F., Foehr, U. G., Rideout, V. J., & Brodie, M. (1999). Kids and media @ the new millenium: A Kaiser Family Foundation report [Online]. Retrieved January 2, 2002, from http://www.kff.org/ content/1999/1535/
35. Rubin, A. M., Perse, E. M., & Powell, R. A. (1985). Loneliness, parasocial interaction, and local television news viewing. Human Communication Research, 12(2), 155-180.
36. Schramm, H. (2001). Unterhaltungsmusik - Musik zur Unterhaltung? Terminologische und funktionelle Annaeherung an eine omnipraesente Musikkategorie [Entertainment music - Music for entertainment? Terminological and functional approaches to an omnipresent category of music]. Zeitschrift fuer Medienpsychologie, 13(3), 125-137.
37. Singer, J., & Singer, D. (1998). Barney & friends as entertainment and education: Evaluating the quality and effectiveness of a television series for preschool children. In J. Asamen & G. Berry (Eds.), Research paradigms, television, and social behavior (pp. 305-367). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
38. Spitz, E. H. (2000). Inside picture books. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
39. Styles, E. A. (1997). The psychology of attention. Hove, England: Taylor and Francis.
40. Underwood, G. (Ed.). (1993). The psychology of attention. Aldershot, England: Elgar.
41. Valkenburg, P. M., & Beentjes, J. W. J. (1997). Children's creative imagination in response to radio and TV stories. Journal of Communication, 47, 21-38.
42. Valkenburg, P., & Cantor, J. (2000). Children's likes and dislikes of entertainment programs. In D. Zillmann & P. Vorderer (Eds.), Media entertainment: The psychology of its appeal (pp. 135-152). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
43. Valkenburg, P., & Janssen, S. C. (1999). What do children value in entertainment programs? A cross-cultural investigation. Journal of Communication, 49(2), 3-21.
44. von Feilitzen, C., & Linné, O. (1975). Identifying with television characters. Journal of Communication, 25(4), 51-55.
45. Vorderer, P. (1992). Fernsehen als Handlung: Fernsehfilmrezeption aus motivationspsychologischer Perspektive [Watching television as action: Reception of TV movies from the perspective of motivational psychology]. Berlin, Germany: Edition Sigma.
46. Vorderer, P. (1993). Audience involvement and program loyalty. Poetics, 22, 89-98.
47. Vorderer, P. (Ed.). (1996). Fernsehen als "Beziehungskiste". Parasoziale Beziehungen und Interaktionen mit TV-Personen [TV as "box of relationships": Parasocial relations and interactions with TV characters]. Opladen, Germany: Westdeutscher Verlag.
48. Vorderer, P. (2001). It's all entertainment, sure. But what exactly is entertainment? Communication research, media psychology, and the explanation of entertainment experiences. Poetics, 29, 247-261.
49. Vorderer, P., Klimmt, C., & Liebetruth, D. (2002). Spaß, Spannung, Spiel. Eine Beobachtungsstudie zum Unterhaltungserleben drei- bis vierjähriger Kinder während der Rezeption formal unterschiedlich unterhaltsamer Varianten eines Hörspiels [Fun, suspense, and play: Preschoolers' enjoyment of narrative audio tapes]. In P. Roessler, S. Kubisch, & V. Gehrau (Eds.), Empirische Perspektiven der Rezeptionsforschung (pp. 117-132). Munich, Germany: Fischer.
50. Vorderer, P., & Ritterfeld, U. (2003). Children's future programming and media use between entertainment and education. In E. L. Palmer & B. Young (Eds.), The faces of televisual media: Teaching, violence, selling to children (pp. 241-264). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
51. Vorderer, P., Ritterfeld, U., & Klimmt, C. (2001). Spass am Hoeren - Hoerspielkassetten als sprachfoerderliche Unterhaltungsangebote fuer Vorschulkinder [The fun of listening: Narrative cassettes as an entertainment form promoting the language acquisition of preschoolers]. Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, 49, 462-479.
52. Warren, R., Gerke, P., & Kelly, M. A. (2002). Is there enough time on the clock?: Parental involvement and mediation of children's television viewing. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 46, 87-111.
53. Weber, W. (1997). Strukturtypen des Hoerspiels - erlaeutert am Kinderhoerspiel des oeffentlichrechtlichen Rundfunks seit 1970 [Structural types of radio drama - The example of children's radio dramas of the public broadcasting services since 1970]. Frankfurt, Germany: Peter Lang.
54. Wright, J. C., Huston, A. C., Vandewater, E. A., Bickham, D. S., Scantlin, R. M., Kotler, J. A., et al. (2001). American children's use of electronic media in 1997: A national survey. Applied Developmental Psychology, 22, 31-47.
55. Zajonc, R. (1968). Attitudinal effects of mere exposure. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Monographs Supplement, 9(2, pt. 2), 1-27.
56. Zillmann, D. (1988). Mood management: Using entertainment to full advantage. In L. Donohew, H. E. Sypher, & E. T. Higgins (Eds.), Communication, social cognition, and affect (pp. 147-171). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
57. Zillmann, D. (1991). Empathy: Affect from bearing witness to the emotions of others. In J. Bryant & D. Zillmann (Eds.), Responding to the screen: Reception and reaction processes (pp. 135-168). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
58. Zillmann, D. (1994). Mechanism of emotional involvement with drama. Poetics, 23, 33-51.
59. Zillmann, D. (1996). The psychology of suspense in dramatic exposition. In P. Vorderer, H. J. Wulff, & M. Friedrichsen (Eds.), Suspense: Conceptualizations, theoretical analyses, and empirical explorations (pp. 199-231). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
60. Zillmann, D., & Bryant, J. (Eds.). (1985). Selective exposure to communication. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
61. Zillmann, D., & Bryant, J. (1994). Entertainment as media effect. In J. Bryant & D. Zillmann (Eds.), Media effects: Advances in theory and research (pp. 437-461). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
62. Zillmann, D., & Vorderer, P. (Eds.), (2000). Media entertainment: The psychology of its appeal. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.