Includes bibliographical references and index.

Culture - nature and the construction of childhood / Alan Prout -- The child in the picture / Patricia Holland -- Managing monsters: videogames and the mediatization of the toy / Dan Fleming -- Harlequin meets the SIMS: a history of interactive narrative media for children and youth from early flap books to contemporary multimedia / Jacqueline Reid-Walsh -- Making waves: historical aspects of public debates about children and mass media / Chas Critcher -- Children and media in the context of the home and family / Stewart M. Hoover / Lynn Schofield Clark -- Reality and fantasy in media: can children tell the difference and how do we know? / Maire Messenger Davies -- Children, youth and the mobile phone / Rich Ling / Leslie Haddon -- The mediated playground : media in early childhood / Dafna Lemish -- Dividing delights: children, adults and the search for sales / Jane Kenway / Elizabeth Bullen -- Youth films: transforming genre, performing audiences / Anne Jerslev -- Learning theory, video games, and popular culture / James Paul Gee -- Children and media: a cultural studies approach / David Buckingham -- The African reception of global media / Larry Strelitz / Priscilla Boshoff -- Let the world in! globalization in Greenland / Jette Rygaard -- Games in the media : the acquisition of social structure and social rules / Maria Heller -- Children, media and regional modernity in the Asia Pacific / Stephanie Hemelryk Donald -- Girls issues, gender and the media: Feminist activism in China / Bu Wei -- Contextualizing media competencies among young people in Indian culture : interface with globalization / Usha S. Nayar / Amita Bhide -- Youth, media and culture in the Arab world / Marwan M. Kraidy / Joe F. Khalil -- Constrained appropriations : practices of media consumption and imagination amongst Brazilian teens / Norbert Wildermuth -- Television culture and media socialization across countries : theoretical issues and methodological approaches / Letizia Caronia / Andre H. Caron -- Mobilizing the imagination in everyday play : the case of Japanese media mixes / Mizuko Ito -- Japanese young people, media and everyday life: towards the internationalizing of media studies / Toshie Takahashi -- Debates and challenges facing new literacies in the 21st century / Renee Hobbs -- From parental control to peer pressure: cultural transmission and conformism / Dominique Pasquier -- The commodification of youth culture / Janet Wasko -- Media and communications regulations and child protection: an overview of the field / David Oswell -- Facilitating political participation: young citizens, internet and civic cultures / Peter Dahlgren / Tobias Olsson -- Childrens communication rights: beyond intentions / Cees J. Hamelink