After the Death of Childhood
"David Buckingham's book is a useful theoretical underpinning for media in an online age. It raises and forefronts debate surrounding the medias role in the death of childhood and how restricting children's access to media involves excluding children from citizenship, commerce and morality. The boundaries around this debate are blurred providing you with scope to discuss your thoughts on the topic area. On the one hand there is the belief that children need protecting from adult domains but also there are adults who ask young people for answers as their expertise in new media forms gives them access to new forms of culture and communications. "(book review from amazon)
Does online media and access to endless information shorten childhood? Or is it a good thing that children are subjected to, once seemingly, adult content as it makes them more aware of the world around them?
"David Buckingham's book is a useful theoretical underpinning for media in an online age. It raises and forefronts debate surrounding the medias role in the death of childhood and how restricting children's access to media involves excluding children from citizenship, commerce and morality. The boundaries around this debate are blurred providing you with scope to discuss your thoughts on the topic area. On the one hand there is the belief that children need protecting from adult domains but also there are adults who ask young people for answers as their expertise in new media forms gives them access to new forms of culture and communications. "(book review from amazon)
Does online media and access to endless information shorten childhood? Or is it a good thing that children are subjected to, once seemingly, adult content as it makes them more aware of the world around them?
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