Children's fantasies - children's television |
International research project
What do "big day-dreams" (Fantas)
look like?
Which role does media play in children's "big day-dreams"?
Are there any gender-specific differences?
Which cultural characteristics, embeddings and differences are shown?
Are there any generation-specific differences?
Which consequences can be drawn from the findings for education and
production?
What do typical children's fantasies look
like?
Typical (basic) fantasies of children (8-9 years old) should be recorded,
and a possible link between children's media and especially children's
TV described. According to field studies with 60-80 children (Quota
north/south; east/west) children's fantasies and their aesthetic refining
are assessed. The methodical approach is based on children's pictures
as objects of symbolic processing and of inner images. These will
be completed by short essays and theme-centred interviews as well
as basic information and evaluation of the educator in charge (IZI).
Is there any interrelation of children's fantasies
and children's television?
Possible links between children's fantasies and children's media/
television are to be investigated.
- In order to do this, traces of media in
children's pictures and interviews are scrutinised.
- According to the 'stocktaking of children's
television 2001' an annual analysis of about 480 hours of programme
( in co-operation with the University GH Kassel), typical forms
of symbolisation of fantasies are investigated in a media-typical
analysis ( in co-operation with Prof. Ben Bachmair, University Kassel).
Are there any national differences in children's fantasies? How far
are they characterised culturally or globally?
In an international comparison, similarities and differences shall be
found, as well as the interrelation to children's media, with special
focus on children's television. There will be the same research set-up
in three other nations. 40 8-9 year-old children will be tested
- in Urbana-Champaign IL, USA (in co-operation
with Amy Aidman, Ph.D., University of Urbana-Champaign IL, USA)
- in Tel Aviv, Israel (in co-operation with
Dafna Lemish, Ph.D., Tel Aviv University)
- in Seoul, South Korea (in co-operation with
Hyesung Moon, Ph.D., and Prof. Ling, Yonsei University)
Were there any changes in fantasies, compared with other generations,
or do children and young people have the same 'basic fantasies' like
young adults and adults today?
In comparison to the children's fantasies, there will be biographical
interviews with young adults (university students).
- 20 students will be investigated (in co-operation
with Prof. Lothar Mikos and Elisabeth Prommer, Ph.D., HHF Potsdam-Babelsberg)
More biographic interviews are set up, in order to get some information
about people who grew up hardly exposed to any television, but have
a strong influence on children's programmes nowadays.
- 20 decisive creators of German children's
programmes will be interviewed, about their own childhood fantasies,
and in how far they are reflected in concept of their own programmes
(in co-operation with Heike Becker, Osnabrück).
First results have been introduced at IZI's International Conference
on December 11th and 12th 2001 in Munich as well
as in the review TELEVIZION 14/2001/2
and 15/2002/2.
They are published in English and German.
further areas of work
 
 
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