Children and Media

A Q&A with Charter Communications chief marketing officer Ted Schremp. The cable company is opening a second front in the battle to boost broadband adoption.

Educators got a preview of the enhanced role educational technology is expected to play in the future of K-12 education during a webcast aired March 10, 2010.

Federal Communications Commission Julius Genachowski outlined National Broadband Plan recommendations to benefit children and their families.

A Maine legislative committee voted Thursday to repeal a controversial 2009 online marketing law that restricts the data that can be collected from minors.

For a few days last fall, the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood celebrated a big victory: the tiny advocacy group had successfully pushed the Walt Disney Company to offer full refunds to everyone who had bought the company's popular Baby Einstein videos from June 2004 to September 2009. But it did not take long for trouble to follow.

The Federal Communications Commission has started to dig through its backlog of indecency complaints. This predictably triggers some cheap shots at the FCC.

After a hiatus of what numerous attorneys say is close to two years, the Federal Communications Commission has begun to follow up on some of the one million-plus indecency complaints it has acknowledged are in its pipeline.

The proportion of children with cellphones has nearly doubled since 2005, an increase driven in large part by boys, according to Mediamark Research and Intelligence, a market research company.

AT&T is launching a campaign against texting and driving.