Peer Review A Model Of Media Literacy Education To Prevent The Negative Effect From Television Programmes For Teenagers

The electronic mass media, the television in particular, has several advantages which differenciates it from other electronic mass media. These excell points that it has, make television own a strong attractive side in human life, until society, where in this discussion points to teenagers, was felt really needed for tuning in to television as their source of information. Society dependency, the teenagers especially, watching television can affect their behaviour. The purpose of this research is to study the effect of watching television concerning teenager’s behaviour. Its selected method is the qualitative method by using primary data taken from in depth interview. The result of this research shows that teenagers take three hours to watch television on a daily basis. They choose afternoon and evening time for watching TV more or less than three hours. They watch it to seek entertainment, information, and knowledge. So far, the media literacy education model for teenager takes place only under parental and teacher advice which very limited in frequency. Therefore, there is an emergency to make a continous socialization program out of the media literacy for students, teachers and parents. Meanwhile, the constraints for implementing the media literacy education are that there does not exist a program of media literacy education in schools, there are no government policies about this matter, the lack of manpower (teachers) who have the capability to understand the concept of media literacy and the limited time and lack of knowledge, or do not understand the media literacy for the parents