UNESCO: Establishment of an International Clearinghouse on Children and Violence on the Screen

IRIS 1997-6:1/23

Ad van Loon

European Audiovisual Observatory

The Nordic Information Center for Media and Communication Research (Nordicom) has set up an international clearinghouse on children and violence on the screen. The Clearinghouse receives financial support from the Government of Sweden and UNESCO.

Its objective is to inform researchers, policymakers, media professionals, teachers, voluntary organisations and interested individuals on:

- research findings concerning children, young people and media violence;

- ongoing research on children and media violence;

- children's access to mass media and on their media use;

- available training on children and the media;

- positive alternatives to media violence; and,

- measures and activities which aim at limiting gratuitous violence on television, in films, and in interactive media. The centre publishes a yearbook which contains inter alia scientific articles, summaries of ongoing research, statistics and surveys of measures and legislation. A newsletter is also published.