Bøker av David Buckingham

* An original examination of the effects of consumer culture on children. * Draws on a major study the author was commissioned to lead for the UK Government on this topic. * Written by one of the world's top scholars on childhood and media/culture.

Explores the everyday, popular use of video production technology, looking particularly at how families use and engage with the technology and how it fits into the routines of everyday life. The authors draw on interviews, observations, and the participants' videos themselves, seeking to paint a comprehensive picture of the role of video making in their everyday lives.

Beyond Technology offers a challenging new analysis of learning, young people and digital media. A leading professor of media and education offers a level headed analysis of the impact of new media on learning, drawing on a wide range of critical research.

Children today are growing up in a world of global media. Many have also become global citizens, through their experience of migration and transnational networks. This book reviews research and debate in the media, globalization, migration and childhood, with empirical research in which children's voices are featured prominently and directly.

This book provides a systematic, comprehensive introduction to the analysis of computer and video games. It introduces key concepts and approaches drawn from literary, film and media theory in an accessible and concrete manner; and it tests their use and relevance by applying them to a representative selection of games.

This book examines recent changes in media education and in young people's lives, and provides an accessible set of principles on which the media curriculum should be based, with a clear rationale for pedagogic practice.

Drawing on an extensive research project, which investigated children's interpretations of sexual content in films, TV and print media, this book considers how young people (aged 9-17) use such material to understand their experiences and build their identities, and how they and their parents respond to public concerns about these issues.

The Making of Citizens explores the impact of contemporary new programming on the young, asking why it is failing to capture the interest and attention of young viewers.

Provides an analysis of students' uses and readings of a range of popular cultural media. The book seeks to identify possibilities and strategies for educational interventions. It asks questions about the educational and political processes involved in teaching and learning about popular culture.

An investigation into children's own perspectives on what they find frightening, moving and upsetting on television. The author examines their responses, looks at how they learn to cope with their feelings about such material, and shows how their parents help or hinder them in doing so.