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Throughout the modern era the figure of the child has consistently reflected adult concerns about industrialisation, urbanisation, technology, consumerism and capitalism. Children represent a symbolic retreat from modern life, culturally aligned with fairy tales, medievalism, animals and nature. Yet children also embody the future and are often identified with the most contemporary forms of popular culture. This book explores how products for children navigate such contradictions by investigating the history and textuality of three major forms of modern media: cinema, television and digital games. Case studies - including Wallace and Gromit, Teletubbies, Horrible Histories, Little Big Planet and Disney Infinity - are used to illustrate the complex intersections between children's culture and modernity. Cinema - so closely associated with the emergence of modernity and mass popular culture - has had to negotiate its relationship with child audiences and depictions of childhood, often concealing its connection with modernity in the process. In contrast, television's incorporation into family home-centred, post-war modernity resulted in children being clearly positioned as the audience for this domestic entertainment. The latter decades of the twentieth century saw the promotion of home computers as educational tools for training future generations, capitalising on positive alignments between children and technologies, while digital games' narrative references, aesthetics and merchandise established the new medium as a form of children's culture

Mass media and children --- Motion pictures and children --- Children's television programs

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Bringing together the leading researchers on children, adolescents, and the media, this books offers their cutting-edge, 'big picture' ideas for the future of research and scholarship in the field. Individual chapters focus on topics such as the role of big data in media research, digital literacy, parenting in the era of mobile media, media diversity in the digital age, the impact of media on child development, children's digital rights, the implications of 'intelligent' characters and parasocial relationships, and the effectiveness of transmedia for informal education. Several chapters also explore the theoretical and methodological challenges facing children's media researchers. Offering new directions for research, the contributors consider the implications of the changing media landscape for parents, educators, advocates, and producers. Leading scholars from North America, Europe and Asia, grounded in different theoretical and methodological traditions, join forces to discuss the impact of growing up in a media- saturated world, and to stimulate thinking about the field of children and media in unexpected ways. This book was originally published as two special issues of the Journal of Children and Media.

Mass media and children --- Mass media and youth --- Mass media --- Research --- Social aspects

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Une réflexion sur l'impact des images violentes propagées par les groupes terroristes ou par les médias sur l'imaginaire des enfants et des adolescents ainsi que sur les façons de lutter contre leur emprise. ©Electre 2017 Dans un contexte de multiplication des attentats terroristes, il importe d'interroger la contamination de l'imaginaire de nos enfants et de nos adolescents par les images de terreur, afin de repenser, au-delà de l'intervention, la prévention des dommages que celles-ci peuvent causer. A l'échelle individuelle, nous sommes nombreux à nous sentir démunis face à la puissance d'une organisation terroriste dont les adeptes sont prêts à mourir pour répandre le sang et la terreur. Que les champs de bataille nous paraissent lointains ou que l'épicentre du drame se déclare dans notre ville, les coups de feu retentissent dans nos foyers à chaque fois que l'horreur se répand à travers ces images qui se déversent sur nos écrans. Dans le registre de l'imaginaire, nous voilà tous victimes du terrorisme. Dans ce monde parsemé de vidéos choquantes diffusées par les terroristes ou par leurs victimes, que pouvons-nous faire pour résister ? Comment protéger nos enfants ? Cet essai propose une réflexion sur la guerre que nous perdons à chaque fois que nous abandonnons notre imaginaire à l'ennemi.

Terrorism and mass media --- Mass media and children --- Violence in mass media --- Terrorisme et médias --- Médias et enfants --- Violence dans les médias --- Influence