This essential volume brings together the work of internationally-renowned researchers, each experts in their field, in order to capture the diversity of children and young people's media cultures around the world.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• International Advisory Board
• List of Editors
• List of Contributors
• Editors' Introduction - Sonia Livingstone and Kirsten Drotner
• Part 1 Continuities and Change
• Chapter 1 Culture-Nature and the Construction of Childhood - Alan Prout
• Chapter 2 The Child in the Picture - Patricia Holland
• Chapter 3 Managing Monsters: Videogames and the ‘Mediatization’ of the Toy - Dan Fleming
• Chapter 4 Harlequin Meets the SIMS: A History of Interactive Narrative Media for Children and Youth from Early Flap Books to Contemporary Multimedia - Jacqueline Reid-Walsh
• Part 2 Problematics
• Chapter 5 Making Waves: Historical Aspects of Public Debates about Children and Mass Media - Chas Critcher
• Chapter 6 Children and Media in the Context of the Home and Family - Stewart M. Hoover and Lynn Schofield Clark
• Chapter 7 Reality and Fantasy in Media: Can Children Tell the Difference and How Do We Know? - Máire Messenger Davies
• Chapter 8 Children, Youth and the Mobile Phone - Rich Ling and Leslie Haddon
• Chapter 9 The Mediated Playground: Media in Early Childhood - Dafna Lemish
• Chapter 10 Dividing Delights: Children, Adults and the Search for Sales - Jane Kenway and Elizabeth Bullen
• Chapter 11 Youth Films: Transforming Genre, Performing Audiences - Anne Jerslev
• Chapter 12 Learning Theory, Video Games, and Popular Culture - James Paul Gee
• Part 3 Cultures and Contexts
• Chapter 13 Children and Media: A Cultural Studies Approach - David Buckingham
• Chapter 14 The African Reception of Global Media - Larry Strelitz and Priscilla Boshoff
• Chapter 15 Let the World in! Globalization in Greenland - Jette Rygaard
• Chapter 16 Games and Media: The Acquisition of Social Structure and Social Rules - Maria Heller
• Chapter 17 Children, Media and Regional Modernity in the Asia Pacific - Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
• Chapter 18 Girls' Issues, Gender and the Media: Feminist Activisms in China - Bu Wei
• Chapter 19 Contextualizing Media Competencies among Young People in Indian Culture: Interface with Globalization - Usha S. Nayar and Amita Bhide
• Chapter 20 Youth, Media and Culture in the Arab World - Marwan M. Kraidy and Joe F. Khalil
• Chapter 21 Constrained Appropriations: Practices of Media Consumption and Imagination Amongst Brazilian Teens - Norbert Wildermuth
• Chapter 22 Television Culture and Media Socialization across Countries: Theoretical Issues and Methodological Approaches - Letizia Caronia and Andre H. Caron
• Part 4 Perspectives
• Chapter 23 Mobilizing the Imagination in Everyday Play: The Case of Japanese Media Mixes - Mizuko Ito
• Chapter 24 Japanese Young People, Media and Everyday Life: Towards the Internationalizing of Media Studies - Toshie Takahashi
• Chapter 25 Debates and Challenges Facing New Literacies in the 21st Century - Renee Hobbs
• Chapter 26 From Parental Control to Peer Pressure: Cultural Transmission and Conformism - Dominique Pasquier
• Chapter 27 The Commodification of Youth Culture - Janet Wasko
• Chapter 28 Media and Communications Regulation and Child Protection: An Overview of the Field - David Oswell
• Chapter 29 Facilitating Political Participation: Young Citizens, Internet and Civic Cultures - Peter Dahlgren and Tobias Olsson
• Chapter 30 Children's Communication Rights: Beyond Intentions - Cees J. Hamelink