num_pages: 352
description: How does the passive act of watching television and other electronic media-regardless of their content-affect a developing child's relationship to the real world? Focusing on this crucial question, Marie Winn takes a compelling look at television's impact on children and the family. Winn's classic study has been extensively updated to address the new media landscape, including new sections on: computers, video games, the VCR, the V-Chip and other control devices, TV programming for babies, television and physical health, and gaining control of your TV.
language: English
title: The Plug-In Drug: Television, Computers, and Family Life
titlecomplete: The Plug-In Drug: Television, Computers, and Family Life
genres: Family, Social Science, Technology, Sociology, Self Help, Education, Parenting, Psychology, Nonfiction, Cultural
ratings_count: 257
publisher: Penguin Books