Young People and New Media: Childhood and the Changing Media Environment / Edition 1

by Sonia Livingstone

Overview

We can no longer imagine leisure, or the home, without media and communication technologies, and for the most part, we would not want to. Yet as worldwide the television screen in the family home is set to become the site of a multimedia culture integrating telecommunications, broadcasting, computing and video, many questions arise concerning their place in our daily lives.

Young People and New Media offers an invaluable up-to-date account of children and young people's changing media environment at the end of the twentieth century. By locating the insights drawn from a major empirical research reported in Young People, New Media within a survey of the burgeoning but fragmented research literature on ne

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761964667
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	07/09/2002
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	278
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Sonia Livingstone DPhil (Oxon), OBE, FBA, FBPS, FAc SS, FRSA, is a professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Taking a comparative, critical and contextualised approach, her research examines how changing conditions of mediation reshape everyday practices and possibilities for action. She has published 20 books on media audiences, children and young people’s risks and opportunities, media literacy and rights in the digital environment, including “Parenting for a Digital Future: How hopes and fears about technology shape children’s lives” (OUP 2020). Since founding the EC-funded 33 country “EU Kids Online” research network, and Global Kids Online (with UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti), she has advised DCMS, UKCIS, Ofcom, European Commission, European Parliament, UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, OECD, ITU and UNICEF. She chaired LSE’s Truth, Trust and Technology Commission and is currently leading the Digital Futures Commission with the 5Rights Foundation. See www.sonialivingstone.net

Table of Contents

Childhood, Youth and the Changing Media Environment
Children and Young People's Media Access and Use
Media, Leisure and Lifestyle
Media at Home
The Family Context of Media Use
From Print to Screen

Editorial Reviews

Livingstone reports on a study designed to update that reported in Himmelweit et al.'s (1958), which examined the place of the new medium in children's lives then. Both studies were conducted at the London School of Economics, but significant changes in conditions and concepts prevented exact duplication of the earlier one. Among the perspectives are the changing media environment, the diffusion and appropriation of new media, leisure and lifestyle, the media-rich home, families living together separately, and changing literacies. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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