随着电视、网络、DVD视频等媒体设备的普及，媒体对婴儿发展的影响越来越受到父母和研究者的关注。电视等媒体与婴儿注意、语言和学习的相关研究是婴儿媒体研究中非常重要的内容。婴儿期对电视的注意随着年龄的增长而增长；婴儿的语言发展依赖于他们收看的电视节目类型及自身特征；当将视频学习和现实中等价学习进行比较时，非常年幼的儿童从视频中学习得更少。媒体对婴儿发展产生的影响是积极还是消极，缺少一个权威性的答案。鉴于这一点，本文从关注媒体的内容和形式、新的研究视角、以及国内研究现状等方面提出未来研究的趋势。

Media plays an important role in infants and children’s leisure time. The increase in the amount of time that infants spend exposing to media, such as television, internet and DVD, has prompted more concern among parents and researchers. Firstly, infant’s media using was introduced and positive and negative effects of television on the development of infants were reviewed. Secondly, the relationship between the media and the cognitive development of infants in attention and responsiveness, vocabulary and word learning and learning between 2D to 3D were also reviewed. Finally, suggestions for further research were discussed in the end, such as the definition of the media and television viewing, television content and form and the new technique etc.