International Handbook of Children Media and Culture

CONTINUITIES AND CHANGE/Culture-Nature and the Construction of Childhood/The Child in the Picture/Managing Monsters/Videogames and the `Mediatization' of the Toy/Harlequin Meets the SIMS/A History of Interactive Narrative Media for Children and Youth From Early Flap Books to Contemporary Multi Media/PROBLEMATICS/Making Waves/Panic Discourses about the Media and Children or Young People Past and Present/Children and Media in the Context of the Home and Family/Reality and Fantasy in Media/Can Children Tell the Difference and How Do We Know?/Mobile Emancipation/Children Youth and the Mobile Phone/The Mediated Playground/Media in Early Childhood/Dividing Delights/Children Adults and the Search for Sales/Horror Films and Youthful Film Cultures/Learning Theory Videogames and Popular Culture/CULTURES AND CONTEXTS/Children and Media/A Cultural Studies Approach/The African Reception of Global Media/Relations Between Globalization and Localization/Young People's Media Culture in Greenland/Games and Media/The Acquisition of Social Structure and Social Rules/Uses of Media/Participant Researchers in Asian Contexts/Media and Girls' Issues in China/Media as Strategy for Gender Equality/Contextualizing Media Competencies Amongst Young People in Indian Culture/Interface with Globalization/Youth Media and Culture in the Arab World/Situated Media Appropriations in Brazil/Imagination Empowerment and Exclusion/Has Television Become a Connecting Culture? /A Cross-Cultural Study/PERSPECTIVES/Trans-National Media Mixing/Cultural Production and Exchange in International Anime Cultures/Japanese Young People Media and Everyday Life/Towards the De-Westernising of Media Studies/New Visions of Literacy/The Great Debates Continue/From Parental Control to Peer Pressure/Cultural Transmission and Conformism/The Commodification of Kids' Culture/Media and Communications Regulation and Child Protection/An Overview of the Field/Facilitating Political Participation/Young Citizens Internet and Civic Cultures/Children's Communication Rights/Beyond Intentions