Children and Media.

Author: Buckingham, David
Published: London, 2002
Source: http://www.chicam.net [date 11.8.2003].
Publisher: UNESCO

Abstract

This text is the second part of a report written in April 2002. It sums up the results of the CHICAM (http://www.chicam.net) research project “Global Kids, Global Media: a review of research relating to children, media and migration in Europe”. While the first part of the report is concerned with children and migration, the second concentrates on children and media. Authors from different European countries such as Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and the UK, discuss children and media in their own national context and show the complex interaction between global and local levels. They sketch the specific media landscape of their country, investigate topics such as children as media consumers and media producers, dealing also with the theoretical background. “The different media systems, as well as different definitions of childhood, mean that children do still live in distinctive ‘media cultures’ that combine the global and the local in quite particular ways” (David Buckingham).

Buckingham, David

David Buckingham, born in 1954, is Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, where he directs the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media (http://www.ccsonline.org.uk/mediacentre). He has directed several major research projects on young people's relationships with the media and on media education, funded by organisations such as the Economic and Social Research Council, the Arts and Humanities Research Board, the European Commission, the Arts Council of England, the Broadcasting Standards Commission, and the Spencer, Gulbenkian and Nuffield Foundations. He is the author or editor of fifteen books, including Children Talking Television (1993), Moving Images (1996), The Making of Citizens (2000). After the Death of Childhood (2000) and Media Education (2003). He has published more than 120 book chapters and articles in academic and professional journals. His latest publication is Media Education: Learning, Literacy and Contemporary Culture (2003).