For many years now, studies rejecting the idea of a direct causal link between the media and children's behaviour and beliefs, have been generating insights into children's interactions with all kinds of media forms. This book is designed as an accessible introduction to these important research findings, for students of cultural and communication studies, psychology, and education; for professionals working with children and young people, and in the media industry; and for parents. 'Wired Up' comprises separate studies of a wide range of electronic media forms including television, video, computer games and the telephone, and includes coverage of a broad age-range, from pre-school children to adolescents and young adults. It provides insights into such diverse issues as the gendered nature of media consumption, the role of parental regulation and peer groups, and the significance of narrative, realism and morality.
Author(s): Sue Howard
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 200
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Series Editors' Preface......Page 7
Preface......Page 10
Where do snails watch television? Preschool television and New Zealand children......Page 13
Teaching the Nintendo generation? Children, computer culture and popular technologies......Page 30
Zapping Freddy Krueger: Children's use of disapproved video texts......Page 53
Unbalanced minds? Children thinking about television......Page 67
The middle years: Children and television--cool or just plain boring?......Page 87
Video game culture: Playing with masculinity, violence and pleasure......Page 105
'It's different to a mirror 'cos it talks to you': Teenage girls, video cameras and identity......Page 126
The friendly phone......Page 146
Dear Anne Summers: 'Microfeminism' and media representations of women......Page 164
Index......Page 184
