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Table of Contents:

• Culture - nature and the construction of childhood / Alan Prout
• The child in the picture / Patricia Holland
• Managing monsters: videogames and the mediatization of the toy / Dan Fleming
• Harlequin meets the SIMS: a history of interactive narrative media for children and youth from early flap books to contemporary multimedia / Jacqueline Reid-Walsh
• Making waves: historical aspects of public debates about children and mass media / Chas Critcher
• Children and media in the context of the home and family / Stewart M. Hoover / Lynn Schofield Clark
• Reality and fantasy in media: can children tell the difference and how do we know? / Maire Messenger Davies
• Children, youth and the mobile phone / Rich Ling / Leslie Haddon
• The mediated playground : media in early childhood / Dafna Lemish
• Dividing delights: children, adults and the search for sales / Jane Kenway / Elizabeth Bullen
• Youth films: transforming genre, performing audiences / Anne Jerslev
• Learning theory, video games, and popular culture / James Paul Gee
• Children and media: a cultural studies approach / David Buckingham
• The African reception of global media / Larry Strelitz / Priscilla Boshoff
• Let the world in! globalization in Greenland / Jette Rygaard
• Games in the media : the acquisition of social structure and social rules / Maria Heller
• Children, media and regional modernity in the Asia Pacific / Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
• Girls issues, gender and the media: Feminist activism in China / Bu Wei
• Contextualizing media competencies among young people in Indian culture : interface with globalization / Usha S. Nayar / Amita Bhide
• Youth, media and culture in the Arab world / Marwan M. Kraidy / Joe F. Khalil

• Constrained appropriations : practices of media consumption and imagination amongst Brazilian teens / Norbert Wildermuth
• Television culture and media socialization across countries : theoretical issues and methodological approaches / Letizia Caronia / Andre H. Caron
• Mobilizing the imagination in everyday play : the case of Japanese media mixes / Mizuko Ito
• Japanese young people, media and everyday life: towards the internationalizing of media studies / Toshie Takahashi
• Debates and challenges facing new literacies in the 21st century / Renee Hobbs
• From parental control to peer pressure: cultural transmission and conformism / Dominique Pasquier
• The commodification of youth culture / Janet Wasko
• Media and communications regulations and child protection: an overview of the field / David Oswell
• Facilitating political participation: young citizens, internet and civic cultures / Peter Dahlgren / Tobias Olsson
• Childrens communication rights: beyond intentions / Cees J. Hamelink

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Contributors:

Drotner, Kirsten

Livingstone, Sonia M.

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Mass media and children

Mass media and youth

Mass media — Social aspects

Mass media

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xxi, 537 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Call Numbers:

HQ784.M3 I58 2008

ISBNs:

9781412928328 (hbk.)
141292832X (hbk.)

OCLC Numbers:

230853970
71285206 [Invalid]