Table of Contents

CONTINUITIES AND CHANGE
Culture-Nature and the Construction of Childhood - Alan Prout
The Child in the Picture - Patricia Holland
Managing Monsters - Dan Fleming
Videogames and the ‘Mediatization' of the Toy
Harlequin Meets the SIMS - Jacqueline Reid-Walsh
A History of Interactive Narrative Media for Children and Youth From Early Flap Books to Contemporary Multi Media
PROBLEMATICS
Making Waves - Chas Critcher
Panic Discourses about the Media and Children or Young People, Past and Present
Children and Media in the Context of the Home and Family - Stewart Hoover and Lynn Schofield Clark
Reality and Fantasy in Media - Máire Messenger Davies
Can Children Tell the Difference and How Do We Know?
Mobile Emancipation - Rich Ling and Leslie Haddon
Children, Youth and the Mobile Phone
The Mediated Playground - Dafna Lemish
Media in Early Childhood
Dividing Delights - Jane Kenway and Elizabeth Bullen
Children, Adults and the Search for Sales
Horror Films and Youthful Film Cultures - Anne Jerslev
Learning Theory, Videogames, and Popular Culture - James Gee
CULTURES AND CONTEXTS
Children and Media - David Buckingham
A Cultural Studies Approach
The African Reception of Global Media - Larry Strelitz and Priscilla Boshoff
Relations Between Globalization and Localization - Jette Rygaard
Young People's Media Culture in Greenland
Games and Media - Maria Heller
The Acquisition of Social Structure and Social Rules
Uses of Media - Stephanie Donald
Participant Researchers in Asian Contexts
Media and Girls' Issues in China - Bu Wei
Media as Strategy for Gender Equality
Contextualizing Media Competencies Amongst Young People in Indian Culture - Usha Nayar and Amita Bhide
Interface with Globalization
Youth, Media and Culture in the Arab World - Marwan Kraidy and Joe Khalil
Situated Media Appropriations in Brazil - Norbert Wildermuth
Imagination, Empowerment and Exclusion
Has Television Become a Connecting Culture? - Letizia Caronia and André H. Caron
A Cross-Cultural Study
PERSPECTIVES
Trans-National Media Mixing - Mizuko Ito
Cultural Production and Exchange in International Anime Cultures
Japanese Young People, Media and Everyday Life - Toshie Takahashi
Towards the De-Westernising of Media Studies
New Visions of Literacy - Renee Hobbs
The Great Debates Continue
From Parental Control to Peer Pressure - Dominique Pasquier
Cultural Transmission and Conformism
The Commodification of Kids' Culture - Janet Wasko
Media and Communications Regulation and Child Protection - David Oswell
An Overview of the Field
Facilitating Political Participation - Peter Dahlgren
Young Citizens, Internet and Civic Cultures
Children's Communication Rights - Cees Hamelink
Beyond Intentions