ABSTRACT
The roles that media play in the lives of children and adolescents, as well as their potential implications for their cognitive, emotional, social and behavioral development, have attracted growing research attention in a variety of disciplines.
The Routledge International Handbook of Children, Adolescents and Media analyses a broad range of complementary areas of study, including children as media consumers, children as active participants in media making, and representations of children in the media. The handbook presents a collection that spans a variety of disciplines including developmental psychology, media studies, public health, education, feminist studies and the sociology of childhood. Essays provide a unique intellectual mapping of current knowledge, exploring the relationship of children and media in local, national, and global contexts.
Divided into five parts, each with an introduction explaining the themes and topics covered, the handbook features 57 new contributions from 71 leading academics from 38 countries. Chapters consider vital questions by analyzing texts, audience, and institutions, including:
- the role of policy and parenting in regulating media for children
- the relationships between children’s’ on-line and off-line social networks
- children’s strategies of resistance to persuasive messages in advertising
- media and the construction of gender and ethnic identities
The Handbook’s interdisciplinary approach and comprehensive, international scope make it an authoritative, state of the art guide to the nascent field of Children’s Media Studies. It will be indispensable for media scholars and professionals, policy makers, educators, and parents.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |1 pages
PART I Childhoods and constructions
chapter |3 pages
Editor’s introduction
chapter |8 pages
The co-construction of media and childhood
chapter |8 pages
Representations of childhood in the media
chapter |8 pages
Trends in children’s consumption of media
chapter |7 pages
Examining the assumptions in research on children and media
chapter |8 pages
Ecological approaches to the study of media and children
chapter |7 pages
Constructing children as consumers
chapter |7 pages
Critical studies: practice not discipline
chapter |7 pages
Feminist theory approaches to the study of children and media
chapter |8 pages
Media culture and childhood in the age of globalization
part |1 pages
PART II Channels and convergence
chapter |3 pages
Editor’s introduction
chapter |8 pages
Children’s print culture: tradition and innovation
chapter |8 pages
Children’s film culture
chapter |8 pages
Children’s television culture
chapter |7 pages
Children’s digital gaming cultures
chapter |7 pages
Mobile communication culture among children and adolescents
chapter |7 pages
Children’s music culture: commerce, technology, and tradition
chapter |7 pages
Children and consumer culture
chapter |9 pages
Children’s technologized bodies: mapping mixed reality
part |1 pages
PART III Concerns and consequences
chapter |5 pages
Editor’s introduction
chapter |7 pages
Media, imagination and fantasy
chapter |8 pages
Social media and creativity
chapter |8 pages
Media and emotional development
chapter |7 pages
Media and sexual development
chapter |8 pages
Media, body image, and eating disorders
chapter |8 pages
Media and obesity
chapter |7 pages
Media and substance abuse: alcohol, smoking, and drugs
chapter |8 pages
Media and learning about the social world
chapter |8 pages
Processes and impacts of political socialization
chapter |8 pages
Internet media and peer sociability
part |1 pages
PART IV Contexts and communities
chapter |3 pages
Editor’s introduction
chapter |8 pages
Media and the family context
chapter |7 pages
Media and bedroom culture
chapter |7 pages
Media and minority children
chapter |8 pages
Immigrant children and media
part |1 pages
PART V Collaborations and companions