TV provides the viewer with ready-made visual images and thus does not provide viewers with practice in generating their own visual images. (Valkenburg & van der Voort, 1994, p. 317) Children spend a significant proportion of their time operating, viewing, and engaging with screen devices such as televisions, computers, game consoles, tablets and smartphones-sometimes in excess of 4 hr/day (Gingold,
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