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The time young people spend watching television is excessive.
The Virtual Reality Centre Youth Youth Council of the City of Cartagena, stated in its Section for External Studies, the Ombudsman's Report P ROGRAMMING and content of television and the internet: the view on the protection of minors of their rights.
This paper analyzes the perceptions of young adolescents from 12 to 18 years on the respect for their rights in these media, and the risks they face and their consumption habits.
The study conducted under the direction of the Institute UAM-UNICEF Needs and Rights of Children and Adolescents (IUNDIA) is based on a survey that has been answered by students in secondary school and vocational training throughout the Spanish territory.
The results obtained showed that excessive time spent watching television.
The 43'4% of children watch television more than two hours a day, of which 21% exceeded three hours and about 10% spend four hours.
If these data together is considered the space devoted to Internet use, which often makes the same time that you are in front of the TV, it is little time devoted to the study, physical exercise or something different viewing screens.
The band of increased consumption of television is out of hours "is the night, 44% prefer between the d iez and twelve o'clock. More than 4% say they see her after 24:00 h.
For his part, parental control over programming is null for the 35'1% claiming never watch, a 28'9% admit sometimes be controlled and 35'8% answer that is always controlled.
Age is perceived less control than most, 51% of those between 12 and 14 claims that his parents see what they see on TV, the 41'7% said sometimes and only 16% said they never .
As for the choice of content are played adult stereotypes and gender.
So, the girls prefer series, movies, children's and youth programs of the heart, magazines, reality shows, cartoons and music programs.
While boys opt for humor and critical programs, news, music programs, documentaries and cartoons for adults.
Finally, after the presentation of results, we recommend some guidelines that can help protect the rights of youth and childhood, compared with television content and Internet services.
Of the recommendations can be found among others that are included in the curriculum, curriculum content to promote the proper use and critical to the media.
It is also advised that audiovisual media service providers contribute to cooperate with the educational system and to promote the formation of children and young people transmitting the content, messages and values for this.
With regard to parental control over what their children watch on television and the internet, it is suggested that the competent authorities on audiovisual training and information dissemination campaigns to raise awareness and promote the use of existing media.
The Ombudsman's Report, Programming and content of television and the internets in the web www.cartagena.es / ctjoven
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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