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Children, media and culture / Máire Messenger Davies.

Title
Children, media and culture / Máire Messenger Davies.
Author
Davies, Máire Messenger.
Publication
Maidenhead : Open University Press, 2010.

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Description
xviii, 236 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
Summary
Children's culture is regularly in the forefront of debates about how society is changing. Some of the most visible changes are in new media technology. Television, the most popular medium with children for the last 30 years, is becoming less so. This book is intended to broaden the public debate about the role of media in children's lives.
Series Statement
Issues in cultural and media studies
Subject
  • 2000-2099
  • Technology and children
  • Mass media and children
  • Television and children
  • Computers and children
  • Children > Social conditions > 21st century
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Part 1: The Study Of Childhood -- Defining Children, Media and Culture -- Childhood, History and Media -- The Science of Childhood -- The Politics of Children and Media -- Children and Childhood in Media Studies -- Part 2: Children in Media, Children's Media -- 'Golden Ages': The Visual Representation of Childhood -- Children's Unofficial Culture: Games, Traditions and Tales Children's Literature: On Page and Screen -- Children's Television -- Digital -- 'New' Media -- Some Conclusions.
ISBN
  • 9780335229208 (pbk.)
  • 0335229204 (pbk.)
  • 0335229190 (hbk.)
  • 9780335229192 (hbk.)
OCLC
  • 432995010
  • SCSB-12534860
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library