The Adult-Child Relation and the Family Dynamics in a Research about Reception and Appropriation of Mass Media Messages

This paper shows the outcomes of a research which main aim is to investigate the children's reception & appropriation processes of the characteristics of the subjectivity childhood representation within nowadays socio-cultural environment. Interviews to 32 boys & girls from different sociocultural & economy levels, aged 8 to 12 years old were held. After viewing two films the children were asked to produce narratives in individual semi-directed interviews & grupal discussion, which were analyzed on the basis of Content Analysis. Partial results of such analysis are presented. Aspects of their conceptions concerning the adults-children relationship & the family dynamics are identified. Certain interpretations of the narratives referred to family dynamics, children positions & adults-children relationship within our culture are outlined & interrogated. Adapted from the source document.