Critical Media Literacy 4 January 2013 Last updated at 08:16 ET
By Judith Burns BBC News education reporter Some 90% of children
can access the internet at home official figures suggest More
than a third of the poorest children do not have the internet at
home and a similar number do not have a computer, official
figures suggest. By David Gauntlett This influential article by
a noted British cultural scholar succinctly critiques the
research school of "media effects" that tends to dominate social
science research in the US and fuels enormous media coverage
about media's negative influence on children especially — e.g.
watching violence on TV increases aggression and violence in
real life. Gauntlett outlines ten fundamental flaws in 'effects
models' studies, arguing that these models specifically support
conservative ideologies, treat children as inadequate, assume
superiority of the educated and elite and make no attempt to
understand the many potential readings and meanings of the
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