Kirsten Drotner & Sonia Livingstone 
International Handbook of Children, Media and Culture [EPUB ebook] 

This essential volume brings together the work of internationally-renowned researchers, each experts in their field, in order to capture the diversity of children and young people′s media cultures around the world.

Why are the media such a crucial part of children′s daily lives? Are they becoming more important, more influential, and in what ways? Or does a historical perspective reveal how past media have long framed children′s cultural horizons or, perhaps, how families – however constituted – have long shaped the ways children relate to media?

In addressing such questions, the contributors present detailed empirical cases to uncover how children weave together diverse forms and technologies to create a rich symbolic tapestry which, in turn, shapes their social relationships. At the same time, many concerns – even public panics – arise regarding children′s engagement with media, leading the contributors also to inquire into the risky or problematic aspects of today′s highly mediated world.

Deliberately selected to represent as many parts of the globe as possible, and with a commitment to recognizing both the similarities and differences in children and young people′s lives – from China to Denmark, from Canada to India, from Japan to Iceland, from – the authors offer a rich contextualization of children′s engagement with their particular media and communication environment, while also pursuing cross-cutting themes in terms of comparative and global trends.

Each chapter provides a clear orientation for new readers to the main debates and core issues addressed, combined with a depth of analysis and argumentation to stimulate the thinking of advanced students and established scholars. Since children and young people are a focus of study across different disciplines, the volume is thoroughly multi-disciplinary. Yet since children and young people are all too easily neglected by these same disciplines, this volume hopes to accord their interests and concerns they surely merit.

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CONTINUITIES AND CHANGE

Culture-Nature and the Construction of Childhood – Alan Prout

The Child in the Picture – Patricia Holland

Managing Monsters – Dan Fleming

Videogames and the `Mediatization′ of the Toy

Harlequin Meets the SIMS – Jacqueline Reid-Walsh

A History of Interactive Narrative Media for Children and Youth From Early Flap Books to Contemporary Multi Media

PROBLEMATICS

Making Waves – Chas Critcher

Panic Discourses about the Media and Children or Young People, Past and Present

Children and Media in the Context of the Home and Family – Stewart Hoover and Lynn Schofield Clark

Reality and Fantasy in Media – Máire Messenger Davies

Can Children Tell the Difference and How Do We Know?

Mobile Emancipation – Rich Ling and Leslie Haddon

Children, Youth and the Mobile Phone

The Mediated Playground – Dafna Lemish

Media in Early Childhood

Dividing Delights – Jane Kenway and Elizabeth Bullen

Children, Adults and the Search for Sales

Horror Films and Youthful Film Cultures – Anne Jerslev

Learning Theory, Videogames, and Popular Culture – James Gee

CULTURES AND CONTEXTS

Children and Media – David Buckingham

A Cultural Studies Approach

The African Reception of Global Media – Larry Strelitz and Priscilla Boshoff

Relations Between Globalization and Localization – Jette Rygaard

Young People′s Media Culture in Greenland

Games and Media – Maria Heller

The Acquisition of Social Structure and Social Rules

Uses of Media – Stephanie Donald

Participant Researchers in Asian Contexts

Media and Girls′ Issues in China – Bu Wei

Media as Strategy for Gender Equality

Contextualizing Media Competencies Amongst Young People in Indian Culture – Usha Nayar and Amita Bhide

Interface with Globalization

Youth, Media and Culture in the Arab World – Marwan Kraidy and Joe Khalil

Situated Media Appropriations in Brazil – Norbert Wildermuth

Imagination, Empowerment and Exclusion

Has Television Become a Connecting Culture? – Letizia Caronia and André H. Caron

A Cross-Cultural Study

PERSPECTIVES

Trans-National Media Mixing – Mizuko Ito

Cultural Production and Exchange in International Anime Cultures

Japanese Young People, Media and Everyday Life – Toshie Takahashi

Towards the De-Westernising of Media Studies

New Visions of Literacy – Renee Hobbs

The Great Debates Continue

From Parental Control to Peer Pressure – Dominique Pasquier

Cultural Transmission and Conformism

The Commodification of Kids′ Culture – Janet Wasko

Media and Communications Regulation and Child Protection – David Oswell

An Overview of the Field

Facilitating Political Participation – Peter Dahlgren

Young Citizens, Internet and Civic Cultures

Children′s Communication Rights – Cees Hamelink

Beyond Intentions

Tentang Penulis

Sonia Livingstone DPhil (Oxon), OBE, FBA, FBPS, FAc SS, FRSA, is a professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Taking a comparative, critical and contextualised approach, her research examines how changing conditions of mediation reshape everyday practices and possibilities for action. She has published 20 books on media audiences, children and young people’s risks and opportunities, media literacy and rights in the digital environment, including “Parenting for a Digital Future: How hopes and fears about technology shape children’s lives” (OUP 2020). Since founding the EC-funded 33 country “EU Kids Online” research network, and Global Kids Online (with UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti), she has advised DCMS, UKCIS, Ofcom, European Commission, European Parliament, UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, OECD, ITU and UNICEF. She chaired LSE’s Truth, Trust and Technology Commission and is currently leading the Digital Futures Commission with the 5Rights Foundation. See www.sonialivingstone.net