Creating a learning context: Investigations on the interaction of siblings during television viewing
- 1 December 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Critical Studies in Mass Communication
- Vol. 1 (4) , 345-364
- https://doi.org/10.1080/15295038409360046
Abstract
By exploring the nature of siblings' verbal interaction in the television‐viewing situation, this research examines a learning context that is created during coviewing. Data were obtained from a case study of a single sibling pair and a participant observation study of 51 children from 24 families. Examination of the form and content of siblings' interaction corroborates the basic assumption that children play an active role in interpreting the television world for each other. Detailed analysis of siblings' talk during viewing reveals that interaction patterns and interpretation are key to describing the learning contexts created by young viewers.Keywords
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