BU Now » children’s television http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow News, information and research from Boston University Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:14:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Digital media, kids, and the FCC http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2009/07/23/digital-media-kids-and-the-fcc/ http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/2009/07/23/digital-media-kids-and-the-fcc/#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:01:46 +0000 Dick Taffe http://blogs.bu.edu/bunow/?p=2441 With “new challenges” like computers, video games, and cellphones in addition to TV, kids are being impacted by advertising on all sorts of digital media.  Under a new chairman, the FCC now wants an updated study on how ads and violent images affect children.  College of Communication Professor T. Barton Carter, an FCC expert, says the biggest problem in regulating violent programming is defining it.

“The bottom line is that the definitional problem alone would almost certainly cause any law to fail Constitutional muster under the First Amendment.”

Contact T. Barton Carter, 617-353-3482, comlaw@bu.edu

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