• E. V. PRABHA

Television is an easily available medium at every home in India. Variety of television programmes increases the viewership of the medium. The convergence of the television medium with other medium like mobile phone access using internet, viewing films and playing games had paved way to continuous access to the device. Film is a popular medium. Skillfully choreographed dances, music, aesthetic set with excellent cinematographic techniques, costumes, sensational plots and characters in the films have invited the attention of children and have given a rise to the popularity of films. Nowadays the access to films and television programmes are easily possible in the television medium. This study focuses on the impact of films and television programmes among children based on their demography. The influences of the socio cultural contexts, the range of pleasures and the meanings derived from watching films, in Tiruchirappalli is analysed.

Television, films, programmes, demography, children from 10 to 15 years of age

"A STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF FILMS AND TELEVISION PROGRAMMES ON CHILDREN IN TIRUCHIRAPPALLI", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.767-772, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907992.pdf

"A STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF FILMS AND TELEVISION PROGRAMMES ON CHILDREN IN TIRUCHIRAPPALLI", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp767-772, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907992.pdf