Media, Education and Culture

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1. Researching Children's Popular Culture

   The Cultural Spaces of Childhood

   By Claudia Mitchell, Jacqueline Reid-Walsh

   Series: Media, Education and Culture

   The place of childhood in popular culture is one that invites new readings both on childhood itself, but also on approaches to studying childhood. Discussing different methods of researching children's popular culture, they argue that the interplay of the age of the players, the status of their...

   Published July 31st 2002 by Routledge
2. Fans, Feminisms and 'Quality' Media

   By Lyn Thomas

   Series: Media, Education and Culture

   Fans, Feminisms and 'Quality' Media considers how long-running and popular radio and TV programmes such as Inspector Morse and The Archers participate in contemporary debates about ethnicity and national identity, gender and feminisms, and tradition and modernity. Examining the connections between...

   Published July 24th 2002 by Routledge
3. The Making of Citizens

   Young People, News and Politics

   By David Buckingham

   Series: Media, Education and Culture

   Based on research conducted in Britain and the US, The Making of Citizens traces the dynamic complexities of young people's interpretations of news, and their judgements about the ways in which key social and political issues are represented. Rather than bemoaning young people's ignorance, he...

   Published February 2nd 2000 by Routledge
4. Teen Spirits

   Music And Identity In Media Education

   By Dr Chris Richards, Chris Richards

   Series: Media, Education and Culture

   Relating to both the practice of teaching media studies and also to theoretical questions within media and cultural studies, this study examines pop music, media studies and the micro-cultural politics of adolescence. It argues that media education has neglected pop music, and that, as something of...

   Published April 29th 1998 by Routledge
5. Wired Up

   Young People And The Electronic Media

   Edited by Sue Howard

   Series: 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...

   Published March 22nd 1998 by Routledge
6. Teaching Popular Culture

   Beyond Radical Pedagogy

   Edited by David Buckingham

   Series: Media, Education and Culture

   Teaching about the media and popular culture has been a major concern for radical educators. Yet in recent years, the hyperbolic rhetoric of "critical pedagogy" has come under attack, not only from theoretical perspectives such as feminism, anti-racism and postmodernism, but also in The Light Of...

   Published February 9th 1998 by Routledge