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Abstract
This study explores the role of children’s news media in establishing meanings of critical situations and promoting notions of active citizenship. A content analysis of three Israeli children’s magazines’ coverage of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin is conducted. Findings suggest differences between religious media and secular media in terms of coverage of values related to democracy. Findings also reveal a variety of ways by which democratic practices of giving voice and notions of empowerment can manifest themselves within children’s media.
Acknowledgements
The author thanks David Domke for his meaningful help throughout the development of the study, and to Patricia Moy and Richard Kielbowitz for their helpful suggestions.
Notes
1. Numbers indicate the number of sources that included the value. One coder coded the sample. A second coder coded 15% of the sample yielding an inter‐coder reliability coefficient of 0.96. Using the formula for Scott’s pi that corrects for agreement by chance (Scott, Citation1955), inter‐coder reliability was determined to be 92% greater than by chance.