TY - JOUR

T1 - Children’s Magazines in the Media Education System (Content Audit)

AU - Pavlushkina, Nataly

AU - Teplyashina, Alla

N1 - Nataly Pavlushkina, Alla Teplyashina. Children’s Magazines in the Media Education System (Content Audit). Media Education (Mediaobrazovanie). 2023. 19(1): 139-147.

PY - 2023/3/15

Y1 - 2023/3/15

N2 - The article is devoted to the problem of involving children of preschool and primary schoolage in the sphere of media education. How does the consumption of media content affect theformation of a reading culture and the related interest of 7-12 year old children in knowledge? Thisaspect, in our opinion, requires careful study and reflection. In the existing studies of mediapreferences of the new audience, as a rule, the focus is on the age segment from 12 to 20 years andolder. The peculiarities of content consumption by younger children remain practically unexplored,while practice shows that “immersion” in the media environment and contact with gadgets in achild begins much earlier – even at an unconscious age, that is, from one and a half years.Particular attention in this article is paid to such a resource of media education as children'smagazines that offer new, entertaining, popular science content and a special digital readingmodel. This article presents the results of a study whose purpose was to determine the keycharacteristics of the functioning of popular science magazines for children in the digitalenvironment, taking into account the changed practices of media education and mediaconsumption.

AB - The article is devoted to the problem of involving children of preschool and primary schoolage in the sphere of media education. How does the consumption of media content affect theformation of a reading culture and the related interest of 7-12 year old children in knowledge? Thisaspect, in our opinion, requires careful study and reflection. In the existing studies of mediapreferences of the new audience, as a rule, the focus is on the age segment from 12 to 20 years andolder. The peculiarities of content consumption by younger children remain practically unexplored,while practice shows that “immersion” in the media environment and contact with gadgets in achild begins much earlier – even at an unconscious age, that is, from one and a half years.Particular attention in this article is paid to such a resource of media education as children'smagazines that offer new, entertaining, popular science content and a special digital readingmodel. This article presents the results of a study whose purpose was to determine the keycharacteristics of the functioning of popular science magazines for children in the digitalenvironment, taking into account the changed practices of media education and mediaconsumption.

KW - media education

KW - media consumption

KW - children's magazine

KW - new audience

KW - popular science content

M3 - Article

VL - 19

SP - 139

EP - 147

JO - Медиаобразование

JF - Медиаобразование

SN - 1994-4160

IS - 1

ER -