David Buckingham

David Buckingham
Loughborough University | Lough · Department of Social Sciences

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January 2011 - present
Loughborough University
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This chapter considers the early career of Hayley Mills, who in the early 1960s was the most popular child star in the Western world. It briefly outlines her film career and analyses her first two British-made feature films, Tiger Bay (1959) and Whistle Down the Wind (1961), alongside the first two films she made for the Disney Studios, Pollyanna (...
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The Oxford Handbook of Children’s Film is the most comprehensive study of international children’s cinema published to date. Overturning common prejudices that films for children are unworthy of serious attention, it presents nuanced and wide-ranging discussions of iconic and neglected productions alike, from Hollywood, Britain, France, Germany, Sw...
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Free Media Literacy Education Articles: The Heritage of Yuri Lotman, Umberto Eco and Vladimir Propp in the Context of Media Literacy Education http://ejournal53.com/journals_n/1558082137.pdf IS MEDIA LITERACY STILL ONE OF THE PRIORITIES FOR POLICY MAKERS? Interview with David BUCKINGHAM and Alexander Fedorov https://www.communicationtoday.sk/down...
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David Buckingham is internationally known for his work on children, young people and media, and media education. He is an Emeritus Professor of Cultural Studies at Loughborough University, and a Visiting Professor at Kings College, University of London, UK. This written interview was conducted by Thibaut Clément in October 2020. David Buckingham’s...
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Digital literacy is often proposed as a means of dealing with the problems apparently caused by ‘fake news’. This positioning article considers some of the difficulties with this approach. It argues that fake news is not an isolated phenomenon, but one that needs to be understood in a much broader social, economic and cultural context. It also addr...
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Le 23 juin 1971 vit le début d’un procès historique qui se tint à la cour d’assises à Londres. Richard Neville, Jim Anderson and Felix Dennis, les trois jeunes rédacteurs en chef du magazine « avant-gardiste » Oz, se trouvaient sur le banc des accusés. Les accusations portaient sur le numéro 28 du magazine, intitulé Schoolkids Oz, publié en mai de...
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On June 23rd 1971, a momentous trial began at London’s Old Bailey, the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales. In the dock were three young men, Richard Neville, Jim Anderson and Felix Dennis, the editors of Oz, an “underground” magazine. They faced charges relating to issue 28 of the magazine, published in May of the previous year as Schoolki...
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The interviews focus on the key question whether media literacy is still in the spotlight of contemporary society. The past decades has seen rapid development of professional and academic interest in the field of media literacy. The theoretical and practical issues that have dominated the field for many years have already drawn attention to the imp...
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This article examines media literacy in the UK: a policy that emerged within the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in the late 1990s, was adopted by the New Labour administration, and enshrined in the Communications Act 2003. That legislation gave the new media regulator, Ofcom, a duty to ‘promote’ media literacy, although it left the term un...
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This chapter makes the case for what and how we should teach about media in K-12 schools and universities. The author takes a measured approach, advocating the teaching of both traditional media criticism as well as Web 2.0 skills related to content creation and participation. Further, Buckingham urges educators to resist what he calls “techno-feti...
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The past ten years have brought significant growth in access to Web technology and in the educational possibilities of social media. These changes challenge previous conceptualizations of education and the classroom, and pose practical questions for learners, teachers, and administrators. Today, the unique capabilities of social media are influenci...
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A educação midiática no Reino Unido possui uma longa história, e tem sido um elemento constante no currículo escolar por cerca de 25 anos. No entanto, essa temática tem enfrentado desafios crescentes na última década. Nesse artigo, pretendemos explicar esses desenvolvimentos, não menos importantes, na esperança de que os educadores espanhóis possam...
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This article offers a rationale for the notion of «digital literacy» in education. Pointing to some of the limitations of previous proposals in this field, it outlines a framework based on four key concepts drawn from media education. It applies these concepts to the World Wide Web and to computer games, and discusses the role of digital media prod...
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This article provides a critical overview of the contribution of British Cultural Studies to research on contemporary youth cultures, and some indications of how it should develop in the future. While the early work in this tradition has sometimes been unfairly attacked by subsequent researchers, the approach is in need of some careful reappraisal...
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Digital divide and digital literacy are recurrent themes in the scientific debate due to the accelerating technological progress. In this qualitative study we analyze digital natives perceptions on this issue, including their thoughts on digital divide between young people and older adults. One hundred thirty- five college students answered to seve...
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This chapter explores some of the implications of digital social media for media education. It seeks to challenge some of the euphoric celebration of the democratic and creative possibilities of these new media and to provide a more considered, critical basis for classroom practice. The chapter begins by considering some of the claims of those who...
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Previous research has pointed to the potential of entertainment media as a source of informal sex education for young people. New social media may offer additional potential in this respect. In this paper, we consider the pedagogical possibilities and limitations of online fan forums, via a case study of the forums of the controversial British teen...
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This article explores the provision in the UK of pre-vocational and vocational media courses targeted at academic underachievers. Such courses typically claim to offer routes into employment for socially disadvantaged young people. These assertions have gathered force in recent years with the advent of digital media, and associated claims about the...
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A aprendizagem intergeracional é cada vez mais relevante num mundo envelhecido aumentando, por exemplo, a qualidade de vida dos idosos e reforçando as suas competências digitais. Esta intervenção reúne a inovação tecnológica com a aprendizagem-serviço para explorar a cooperação intergeracional e o envolvimento com ferramentas digitais através da c...
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The ageing population, combined with technological innovation reinforces the digital divide among the older population, emphasizing the need to promote digital inclusion as a strategy for active ageing. In an informal context, a digital inclusion program was developed anchored in photography as pedagogical practice directed at elders living in a r...
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In the context of ageing and the need to focus on intergenerational learning to develop digital literacy, this study applies the Theory of Planned Behaviour to analyse university student’s intentions to help seniors acquire digital skills. We applied a questionnaire to 135 students and the results enphasise the need to promote educacional pro-socia...
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The narrative of the ‘sell-out’ is one of the foundational myths of youth culture. It is a story that is frequently told by academic researchers, popular commentators and youthful participants themselves. The charge of selling out is especially prevalent in the world of popular music: while particular instances — such as the appearance of John Lydo...
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For some time, those who would study youth have been enjoined to be Janus-faced: on the one hand, to remember that ‘youth’, like ‘childhood’, is a social construction; but on the other, never to forget that children and youth are ‘social actors’ (James, Jenks and Prout, 1999; Jeffrey, 2010). As a social construction, ‘youth’ is to be interrogated,...
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Most of the chapters in this book were originally presented during a two-year seminar series funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council. Under the title ‘Rethinking youth cultures in the age of global media’, our discussions ranged across a set of key themes, including the history of research on youth culture, the impact of globalization...
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In May 2013, the Office of the Children’s Commissioner for England published a report entitled ‘Basically … porn is everywhere’: A Rapid Evidence Assessment on the Effect that Access and Exposure to Pornography has on Children and Young People (Horvath et al. 2013). Produced by a team of psychologists from three English universities, the report was...
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Commercial marketing to children is by no means a new phenomenon. Indeed, historical studies show that children have been a key target for marketers since as far back as the mid-nineteenth century (e.g., Cross 1997; Cook 2004; Jacobson 2004; Denisoff 2008). Nevertheless, in recent years children have become increasingly important both as a market i...
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This article explores the emergence of the concept of 'media literacy' within UK communications policy, focusing particularly on the period leading up to the 2003 Communications Act. While broadly deregulatory in intention, the Act gave the new media regulator, Ofcom, a duty to 'promote media literacy'. This article explores the origins of this the...
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There has been widespread concern in contemporary Western societies about declining engagement in civic life; people are less inclined to vote, to join political parties, to campaign for social causes, or to trust political processes. Young people in particular are frequently described as alienated or apathetic. Some have looked optimistically to n...
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Parents are contradictorily positioned within the “sexualisation of childhood” debate. They (“we”) are assumed to be concerned about sexualisation, and are urged to challenge it through campaigning, “saying no,” discussing “media messages” with children, and so on. Yet “irresponsible” consumption practices, particularly by mothers, are also held re...
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In recent years, literacy educators have increasingly recognised the importance of addressing a broader range of texts in the classroom. This article raises some critical concerns about a particular approach to this issue that has been widely promoted in recent years – the concept of ‘multimodality’. Multimodality theory offers a broadly semiotic a...
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This work presents a research study designed to analyse the development of power relations in a virtual world, known as Habbo Hotel, aimed at the child and teenage market. What motivated this work was the desire to under stand how this company wielded its power through the different agents responsible for taking decisions on the behaviour of the us...
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Young people today are often characterised as a ‘digital generation’ - a group whose identities are being formed in new ways as a result of the impact of new media technologies. For some, this is cause for a gloomy pessimism about the superficiality and lack of authenticity of modern life; while for others, it prompts a celebration of the apparentl...
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This article explores some of the dilemmas and difficulties encountered by academic researchers (and specifically those who work on media audiences) in presenting their work in the public domain. It considers some examples of media coverage of debates about media audiences, raising questions about academic authority, research evidence and public kn...
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In the UK — as in many countries around the world — the media education curriculum has typically been defined in terms of a set of concepts. While this approach evolved gradually during the 1960s and 1970s (see Bolas, 2009), it was probably first formalised in a short article published 30 years ago in Screen, the academic journal of the Society for...
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The article describes briey the history of Media Education in the United Kingdom, relating it to the global evolution of the concept and its application, in order to undertake a detailed analysis of this phenomenon in relation to Media 2.0 – reecting on its impacts on Media Education all over the world.
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This paper presents a critical review of the use of “moral panics” theory as a means of understanding public debates about children and media, and specifically of the notion of “media panics.” Following a brief presentation of the origins and key aspects of media panics theory, it focuses on six key issues that are at stake. It argues that there ar...
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Responding to academic and policy anxieties about apparent youth disengagement from politics and civil society, this chapter asks what role the internet has come to play in young people's civic participation. It provides an overview of key findings from the 7-country EU funded CivicWeb project, which involved three main forms of investigation. Firs...
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Introduction Over the past two decades, there has been widespread concern across Europe and in many other industrialised countries about an apparent decline in civic and political participation. Commentators point to long-term reductions in voting rates, declining levels of trust in politicians and waning interest in civic affairs; and these phenom...
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O relacionamento das crianças com a mídia e com a cultura do consumidor vem se tornando, nesta última década, um foco de atenção e de debate. As crianças ganharam mais e mais importância não apenas como um mercado em si, mas também como um meio de atingir os mercados dos adultos; e em paralelo, um número crescente de comentadores critica a aparente...
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O relacionamento das crianças com a mídia e com a cultura do consumidor vem se tornando, nesta última década, um foco de atenção e de debate. As crianças ganharam mais e mais importância não apenas como um mercado em si, mas também como um meio de atingir os mercados dos adultos; e em paralelo, um número crescente de comentadores critica a aparente...
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This article presents a critical analysis of how the issue of childhood ‘sexualization’ – and the role of consumer culture within it – has been defined and framed, both within the public debate and in the academic research literature. It counterposes this with some evidence taken from a study conducted in Scotland in 2009/10 about the availability...
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Over the past decade, the video camera has become a commonplace household technology. With falling prices on compact and easy-to-use cameras, as well as mobile phones and digital still cameras with video recording capabilities, access to moving image production technology is becoming virtually universal. Home Truths? represents one of the few acade...
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This article addresses practices of textual appropriation in computer games made by young people. By focusing on how young people's production work makes reference to popular media texts, it examines the basis on which such work claims to be legible as a game text: how it claims to be literate in the context of an after-school game-making club. The...
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Amid growing concern about young people's apparent lack of interest and involvement in politics and civil society, many have looked to the Internet for the solution to the problem of civic disconnection. But does the Internet really help to overcome young people's feelings of exclusion, apathy, and lack of motivation, thus improving prospects for d...
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The debate about digital technology and education has moved beyond the question of basic access. Attention is now focusing on the issue of what young people need to know about technology – that is, the forms of competence and understanding they need if they are going to use technology effectively and critically. The debate now is about ‘digital lit...
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Cosmopolitan urban centers such as London with their rich mix of peoples, cultures, and languages are the site of multiple crossroads: not an intersection between a singular local and global road but a meeting point of different places, peoples, and affiliations. The issue is no longer the relationship between a “host” community and the newcomer, b...
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This report surveys the core concept of creativity. It sets out an original way to disentangle the range and variety of theories and understandings of the concept. Most of us use the word ‘creativity’ or ‘creative’ casually with a range of different meanings. However, the key insight of this report is that it is helpful to understand the term in it...
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This project was commissioned in response to concerns raised in the Scottish Parliament's Equal Opportunities Committee about the prevalence of sexualised goods and products marketed to children. In the past few years, this issue has become a key area of public concern, although it is one that often invokes much broader emotions and anxieties, and...
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This article is based on newly completed research looking at the role of the internet as a means of promoting civic engagement and participation among young people aged 15–25. It focuses on one specific aspect of this phenomenon, namely the use of websites to promote ‘ethical consumption’ among young people. This paper begins by briefly examining s...
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Media literacy education is currently at a point of transition. It is a point of opportunity, certainly; but it is also one of risk and danger. It is a point at which we need to be very clear about our aims and priorities – because if we are not clear about where we are going, we are very likely to lose our way.
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This article is based on newly completed research looking at the role of the internet as a means of promoting civic engagement and participation among young people aged 15-25. It focuses on one specific aspect of this phenomenon, namely the use of websites to promote 'ethical consumption' among young people. This paper begins by briefly examining s...
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This article provides a critical discussion of the recent trend towards using visual 'creative' methodologies, both in social research generally and specifically in media research. It evaluates a range of empirical studies that have used such methods, and addresses some of the methodological and epistemological claims that are made by advocates of...
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It is hard to overestimate the economic, social and cultural importance of the media in the modern world. The media are major industries, generating profit and employment; they provide us with most of our information about the political process; and they offer us ideas, images and representations (both factual and fictional) that inevitably play a...
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In 2007, the British media regulator Office of Communications (Ofcom) began to implement new restrictions on the television advertising of food and drink products to children, as part of the government’s broader attempts to combat child obesity. This is the second of two linked articles that explore the issues at stake in these developments, and th...
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Despite the growing popularity of amateur video-making, documented in Chapter 1, it has been generally neglected by academic researchers. While the widespread availability of video cameras is a relatively recent development, popular photography and amateur film-making have a much longer history; yet these too have largely fallen below the academic...
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Anyone who uses — or even considers purchasing — a video camera is bound to encounter a large amount of advice of different kinds. Family members, friends and salespeople are likely to offer more or less helpful suggestions; but beyond personal contact, there is a whole world of advice literature in the form of manufacturers’ publicity materials, h...
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Visual representation has always been an important dimension of youth culture. Academic studies frequently make great play of the style of groups such as punks and goths, arguing that clothing and bodily adornment function as symbolic statements of their rejection of mainstream values (e.g. Hebdige, 1979). Even so, the early ‘classic’ studies of yo...
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‘Citizen journalism’ has become one of the feel-good slogans of the digital age. New technologies are believed to be giving ordinary people significant new opportunities to participate in media culture, and to represent their own perspectives and concerns; and in the process, they are seen to be revitalising democracy, and creating a more diverse a...
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The research reported in this book was conducted between 2005 and 2008 — a period that might in retrospect come to be seen as a point of transition in the evolution of contemporary media. When we first planned the research, YouTube did not exist. As we write, in late 2008, the number of videos on the site is rapidly approaching 100 million.
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This report is deliverable no.17 of CIVICWEB Young People, the Internet and Civic Participation, a Project co-funded by the European Commission within the Sixth Framework Programme (2002-2006) Project no. 028357. The report contains the final analysis of the results and policy outcomes of the project.
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[About the book] This book uncovers the significant impact that striptease culture is having on our media, relationships, educational and working lives. It is a welcome and much needed book. Western culture is exhibiting its fascination with sex in new, often surprising ways. Pole dancing is a form of keep fit, porn stars find work as agony aunts,...
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This article offers a critical overview of the cultural and educational benefits and dangers of digital media for young people. It argues that public debates on this issue have veered from utopian hype to moral panic. In contrast, the author argues for a more measured account of how young people appropriate such technologies in the context of their...
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Children today are growing up in a world of global media. Many have also become global citizens, through their experience of migration and transnational networks. This book reviews research and debate in the media, globalization, migration and childhood, with empirical research in which children's voices are featured prominently and directly. © Lie...
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This article focuses on the discursive construction of amateur film- and video-making within popular books, manuals and magazines, dating from 1921 to the present day. The theoretical approach derives primarily from Pierre Bourdieu's analysis of ‘cultural fields’, as developed particularly in his work on photography. We begin by exploring the broad...
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This editorial introduction provides an overview of the challenges and opportunities presented to media educators by the advent of digital technologies. It argues that media education can provide an important critical dimension to the use of technology in education, that moves beyond a merely instrumental approach; and that it can help to bridge th...
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This paper provides a critical overview of debates about the role of media in globalisation, with specific reference to the position of children. The paper begins with a broad-ranging discussion of relevant literature in the field. It argues that, while the economic ‘logic’ of globalisation may lead to a homogenisation of cultural products, it has...
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This article considers how media educators can respond to the new challenges and opportunities of the Internet, and of digital media more broadly. It begins by exploring the value and limitations of the notion of ‘literacy’ in this context. It argues that ‘competence-based’ definitions of literacy tend to neglect the social diversity of literacy pr...
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It is now more than a quarter of a century since the first microcomputers began arriving in British schools. I can personally recall the appearance of one such large black metal box — a Research Machines 380Z — in the North London comprehensive school where I was working in the late 1970s; and I can also remember the computer programme that was dem...
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In 2007, the British media regulator Ofcom began to implement new restrictions on the television advertising of food and drink products to children, as part of the government"s broader attempts to combat child obesity. This is the first of two linked articles that explore the issues at stake in these developments, and their broader implications for...
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In this chapter and the next, we return more directly to our CHICAM research, to consider the ways in which the children took up our invitation to create and exchange their own media productions. As we have explained, CHICAM was based around a network of media-making ‘clubs’ in six European countries. In each club, a researcher and a media educator...
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An Armenian girl in the Netherlands watches a Brazilian telenovela on a Russian satellite TV channel. A Kurdish boy living in Athens records a video of himself singing a lyric by a Turkish poet, translated into Greek. In London, two girls, one Sri Lankan and one Kenyan, debate the merits of popular Hindi films. A Romanian family in Italy watches a...
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Our primary focus thus far has been on children as ‘consumers’ of media. In this chapter and the two that follow, we move on to look at their use of media for creative production and communication. Chapters 8 and 9 present further material from our CHICAM project, looking at the videos produced by the children, and how these formed the basis for in...
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In this chapter and the next, we move from broad overviews of previous studies to more detailed analyses of data drawn from our own empirical research. Our focus here is on the diverse ways in which migrant children use media in the context of their everyday lives and relationships. This chapter presents some findings from our CHICAM project, looki...
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Music can provide a powerful means of representing identity, and of asserting cultural difference. Yet it also increasingly crosses boundaries, offering the potential for transnational communication and new forms of global culture. This applies particularly to children and young people — both to their consumption of music and to what they produce....
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As we have seen, academic discussions of globalisation and its consequences have been quite strongly contested. For some authors, globalisation is merely a further logical stage in the development of modern capitalism; while for others, it represents a distinctive break with the past, as embodied in the form of the traditional nation state. For som...
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In this chapter, we review some of the research on migration as it relates specifically to young people, and briefly present some evidence from our own and others’ work. Like Castles and Miller (2003: 25), we see migrations as ‘collective phenomena, which should be examined as subsystems of an increasingly global economic and political system’. Eve...
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In this book, we have explored some of the many connections and relationships between four key areas of concern: childhood, media, migration and globalisation. Self-evidently, we have provided only a partial view. Our arguments emerge from empirical research projects that have been conducted in quite particular circumstances, and from debates that...

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