Communicational ecology of the child's relationship with entertainment

Abstract

This paper analyses the interface of the child with entertainment, specially trough games and cartoons, in accordance with the ecological approach of the communi cation processes. From the point of view of entertainment, languages form the informational network trough which children connect themselves, by communication, semiotics and cognition pro ces ses, acquiring language and streams of thought. In this relationship, the child pro ces ses signs in such a way that the information which enters the body (input) is always different from the information that goes back to the environment (output). Describing children as active receptors, this paper intends to discuss the classical communication model, according to which the source de ter mi nes meaning, as well as it discusses the approaches which try to identify cause and effect relationships of the media on reception.