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What a wide-ranging international approach tstudies of children and the media-there is nothing else like it in the literature This Handbook provides a rich description of both cultural variations in how children around the world use media and how cultural variations influence the worlds youth, by some of the worlds best media scholarsa remarkable achievement —Ellen Wartella, University of California a truly international collaboration of academics and traditions of thoughtChildrens media cultures emerge as a new spectrum through which tview globalization and social change and tignite a fresh range of issues in both theory and methodology —Chris Jenks, Brunel University This essential volume brings together the work of internationally-renowned researchers, each experts in their field, in order tcapture the diversity of children and young peoples media cultures around the world Why are the media such a crucial part of childrens daily lives? Are they becoming more important, more influential, and in what ways? Or does a historical perspective reveal how past media have long framed childrens cultural horizons or, perhaps, how families - however constituted - have long shaped the ways children relate tmedia?In addressing such questions, the contributors present detailed empirical cases tuncover how children weave together diverse forms and technologies tcreate a rich symbolic tapestry which, in turn, shapes their social relationships At the same time, many concerns - even public panics - arise regarding childrens engagement with media, leading the contributors alstinquire intthe risky or problematic aspects of todays highly mediated worldDeliberately selected trepresent as many parts of the globe as possible, and with a commitment trecognizing both the similarities and differences in children and young peoples lives - from China tDenmark, from Canada tIndia, from Japan tIceland, from - the authors offer a rich contextualization of childrens engagement with their particular media and communication environment, while alspursuing cross-cutting themes in terms of comparative and global trendsEach chapter provides a clear orientation for new readers tthe main debates and core issues addressed, combined with a depth of analysis and argumentation tstimulate the thinking of advanced students and established scholars Since children and young people are a focus of study across different disciplines, the volume is thoroughly multi-disciplinary Yet since children and young people are all toeasily neglected by these same disciplines, this volume hopes taccord their interests and concerns they surely merit
