Wired Up: Young People And The Electronic Media (Media, Education, and Culture)

For many years now, studies rejecting the idea of a direct causal link between the media and children's behaviour and beliefs, have been generating insights into children's interactions with all kinds of media forms. This book is designed as an accessible introduction to these important research findings, for students of cultural and communication studies, psychology, and education; for professionals working with children and young people, and in the media industry; and for parents. 'Wired Up' comprises separate studies of a wide range of electronic media forms including television, video, computer games and the telephone, and includes coverage of a broad age-range, from pre-school children to adolescents and young adults. It provides insights into such diverse issues as the gendered nature of media consumption, the role of parental regulation and peer groups, and the significance of narrative, realism and morality. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 6 Series Editors' Preface......Page 7 Preface......Page 10 Where do snails watch television? Preschool television and New Zealand children......Page 13 Teaching the Nintendo generation? Children, computer culture and popular technologies......Page 30 Zapping Freddy Krueger: Children's use of disapproved video texts......Page 53 Unbalanced minds? Children thinking about television......Page 67 The middle years: Children and television--cool or just plain boring?......Page 87 Video game culture: Playing with masculinity, violence and pleasure......Page 105 'It's different to a mirror 'cos it talks to you': Teenage girls, video cameras and identity......Page 126 The friendly phone......Page 146 Dear Anne Summers: 'Microfeminism' and media representations of women......Page 164 Index......Page 184 A collection of articles on young people's uses and readings of popular cultural forms, from television to the telephone. It offers insights into various issues such as gender, parental regulation, narrative, realism and morality. A collection of articles on young people's uses and readings of popular cultural forms, fron television to the telephone. It offers insights into various issues such as gender, parental regulation, narrative, realism and morality Wired-Up presents a collection of articles on young people's uses and readings of popular cultural forms, ranging from television and video to computer games, music videos, news and the telephone A little New Zealand girl called Monique (4 years old) and her mother are watching Sesame Street. Edited By Sue Howard. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.