Aimée Dorr

Parent-Child Coviewing of Television.

Coviewing of television series featuring families was examined using questionnaire responses from 372 second, sixth, and tenth graders and their parents. Coviewing was found to be higher among parents who believe more in televisions power to influence but was mostly the result of similar parent and child viewing habits and preferences. There was only weak evidence for positive consequences from coviewing, perhaps because coviewing is an imperfect indicator of parental mediation of childrens television experiences. Descriptive data on coviewing patterns are also presented.

Television and affective development and functioning: Maybe this decade

Research is reviewed on the relationships between childrens and adolescents’ television viewing and their recognition of emotions, empathy, emotional arousal, habituation, emotional reactions to characters, and personal states.

Using social science to improve children's television: An NBC case study

In 1975 NBC decided to attempt improving childrens programming, particularly Saturday morning cartoons, through a consulting process that supplements its self‐regulatory mechanisms. NBCs Social Science Advisory Panel brings social science knowledge about children and television to the creative and review processes that produce Saturday morning television programs directed to children. The evolution, activities, and role of the Panel in self‐regulation at a television network are described.

Finding aid as interface? Enhancing K-12 access to digitized cultural heritage resources through adaptive systems technology: An exploratory study

To what extent must diverse users adapt themselves to singular one-interface systems, and in what ways does this impede access and use? In a perfect world of adaptive systems, backend architecture structuring digital information would be accessible through multiple user interfaces that support the literacy levels, technological capabilities and other characteristics of different user groups. Collaborating with the California Digital Library, usability testing was conducted with 4th and 12th graders to compare the effectiveness of an existing finding aid-based interface with a newly developed prototype interfaco in retrieving cultural heritage information. Findings inform the growing number of efforts by cultural heritage communities—including libraries, archives, museums, and community organizations—to create broader access to their rich resources through digitization.

Who will teach the next generation of information professionals? Sponsored by ALISE, SIG ED

Graduate schools of library and information science have grown increasingly multidisciplinary with faculty drawn from such wide-ranging fields as computer science, communication studies, information systems, public administration, and cognitive science as well as library and information science. Deans, directors, and chairs of these programs are engaged in a critical dialogue about the changing landscape of information and the skills, knowledge, and values that information professionals will need to have in order to flourish there. This panel discussion reflects the expanding boundaries of the field by inviting deans from education, communication, and information systems to present their vision of education for information professionals.