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family involvement in media education  

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  • Media education refers to intentional efforts of teachers at school or of parents in families to influence, teach, and help to train children and adolescents to become media literate. Media socialization in a broader sense refers to the whole of the mostly nonintentional and longitudinal processes of accessing, selecting, and using a variety of different media in the family, with peers, and at school, and to the effects of these processes on children and adolescents. [Source: Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media; Media Education, Family Involvement in]

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