Kirsten Drotner is Professor of Media Studies at the Institute for the Study of Culture at the University of Southern Denmark. Her research examines media audiences′ meaning-making in historical and contemporary perspective; media and digital literacies; digital co-creation and learning; qualitative methodologies inc. media ethnography; ICT studies and e-learning; digital museum studies; and child and youth culture studies. She is author or editor of six books in English, 24 books in Danish and numerous academic articles and chapters in edited volumes. She is an elected fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. Sonia Livingstone DPhil (Oxon), OBE, FBA, FBPS, FAcSS, FRSA, is a professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Taking a comparative, critical and contextualised approach, her research examines how changing conditions of mediation reshape everyday practices and possibilities for action. She has published 20 books on media audiences, children and young people’s risks and opportunities, media literacy and rights in the digital environment, including “Parenting for a Digital Future: How hopes and fears about technology shape children’s lives” (OUP 2020). Since founding the EC-funded 33 country “EU Kids Online” research network, and Global Kids Online (with UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti), she has advised DCMS, UKCIS, Ofcom, European Commission, European Parliament, UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, OECD, ITU and UNICEF. She chaired LSE’s Truth, Trust and Technology Commission and is currently leading the Digital Futures Commission with the 5Rights Foundation. See www.sonialivingstone.net

This volume breaks new ground. Its ambitious goal is to deliver a holistic approach to children’s culture... Sonia Livingstone and Kirsten Drotner are well equipped for the job of attempting such a radically inclusive approach. Both scholars have conducted transnational empirical audience research, and are therefore not naive when it comes to the difficulties of such an enterprise. They are appropriate public intellectuals to embark on a job of creating bridges between a range of geographically dispersed scholarly and political discourses... The volume provides a stimulating read for researchers in a range of disciplines. It also deserves to be recommended to media regulators, politicians and journalism students.

• CONTINUITIES AND CHANGECulture-Nature and the Construction of Childhood - Alan Prout The Child in the Picture - Patricia Holland Managing Monsters - Dan Fleming Videogames and the `Mediatization′ of the ToyHarlequin Meets the SIMS - Jacqueline Reid-Walsh A History of Interactive Narrative Media for Children and Youth From Early Flap Books to Contemporary Multi MediaPROBLEMATICSMaking Waves - Chas Critcher Panic Discourses about the Media and Children or Young People, Past and PresentChildren and Media in the Context of the Home and Family - Stewart Hoover and Lynn Schofield Clark Reality and Fantasy in Media - Máire Messenger Davies Can Children Tell the Difference and How Do We Know?Mobile Emancipation - Rich Ling and Leslie Haddon Children, Youth and the Mobile PhoneThe Mediated Playground - Dafna Lemish Media in Early ChildhoodDividing Delights - Jane Kenway and Elizabeth Bullen Children, Adults and the Search for SalesHorror Films and Youthful Film Cultures - Anne Jerslev Learning Theory, Videogames, and Popular Culture - James Gee CULTURES AND CONTEXTSChildren and Media - David Buckingham A Cultural Studies ApproachThe African Reception of Global Media - Larry Strelitz and Priscilla BoshoffRelations Between Globalization and Localization - Jette Rygaard Young People′s Media Culture in GreenlandGames and Media - Maria Heller The Acquisition of Social Structure and Social RulesUses of Media - Stephanie Donald Participant Researchers in Asian ContextsMedia and Girls′ Issues in China - Bu Wei Media as Strategy for Gender EqualityContextualizing Media Competencies Amongst Young People in Indian Culture - Usha Nayar and Amita BhideInterface with GlobalizationYouth, Media and Culture in the Arab World - Marwan Kraidy and Joe KhalilSituated Media Appropriations in Brazil - Norbert Wildermuth Imagination, Empowerment and ExclusionHas Television Become a Connecting Culture? - Letizia Caronia and André H. Caron A Cross-Cultural StudyPERSPECTIVESTrans-National Media Mixing - Mizuko ItoCultural Production and Exchange in International Anime CulturesJapanese Young People, Media and Everyday Life - Toshie Takahashi Towards the De-Westernising of Media StudiesNew Visions of Literacy - Renee Hobbs The Great Debates ContinueFrom Parental Control to Peer Pressure - Dominique Pasquier Cultural Transmission and ConformismThe Commodification of Kids′ Culture - Janet Wasko Media and Communications Regulation and Child Protection - David Oswell An Overview of the FieldFacilitating Political Participation - Peter Dahlgren Young Citizens, Internet and Civic CulturesChildren′s Communication Rights - Cees Hamelink Beyond Intentions

Kirsten Drotner is Professor of Media Studies at the Institute for the Study of Culture at the University of Southern Denmark. Her research examines media audiences′ meaning-making in historical and contemporary perspective; media and digital literacies; digital co-creation and learning; qualitative methodologies inc. media ethnography; ICT studies and e-learning; digital museum studies; and child and youth culture studies. She is author or editor of six books in English, 24 books in Danish and numerous academic articles and chapters in edited volumes. She is an elected fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. Sonia Livingstone DPhil (Oxon), OBE, FBA, FBPS, FAcSS, FRSA, is a professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Taking a comparative, critical and contextualised approach, her research examines how changing conditions of mediation reshape everyday practices and possibilities for action. She has published 20 books on media audiences, children and young people’s risks and opportunities, media literacy and rights in the digital environment, including “Parenting for a Digital Future: How hopes and fears about technology shape children’s lives” (OUP 2020). Since founding the EC-funded 33 country “EU Kids Online” research network, and Global Kids Online (with UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti), she has advised DCMS, UKCIS, Ofcom, European Commission, European Parliament, UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, OECD, ITU and UNICEF. She chaired LSE’s Truth, Trust and Technology Commission and is currently leading the Digital Futures Commission with the 5Rights Foundation. See www.sonialivingstone.net

This volume breaks new ground. Its ambitious goal is to deliver a holistic approach to children’s culture... Sonia Livingstone and Kirsten Drotner are well equipped for the job of attempting such a radically inclusive approach. Both scholars have conducted transnational empirical audience research, and are therefore not naive when it comes to the difficulties of such an enterprise. They are appropriate public intellectuals to embark on a job of creating bridges between a range of geographically dispersed scholarly and political discourses... The volume provides a stimulating read for researchers in a range of disciplines. It also deserves to be recommended to media regulators, politicians and journalism students.

• CONTINUITIES AND CHANGECulture-Nature and the Construction of Childhood - Alan Prout The Child in the Picture - Patricia Holland Managing Monsters - Dan Fleming Videogames and the `Mediatization′ of the ToyHarlequin Meets the SIMS - Jacqueline Reid-Walsh A History of Interactive Narrative Media for Children and Youth From Early Flap Books to Contemporary Multi MediaPROBLEMATICSMaking Waves - Chas Critcher Panic Discourses about the Media and Children or Young People, Past and PresentChildren and Media in the Context of the Home and Family - Stewart Hoover and Lynn Schofield Clark Reality and Fantasy in Media - Máire Messenger Davies Can Children Tell the Difference and How Do We Know?Mobile Emancipation - Rich Ling and Leslie Haddon Children, Youth and the Mobile PhoneThe Mediated Playground - Dafna Lemish Media in Early ChildhoodDividing Delights - Jane Kenway and Elizabeth Bullen Children, Adults and the Search for SalesHorror Films and Youthful Film Cultures - Anne Jerslev Learning Theory, Videogames, and Popular Culture - James Gee CULTURES AND CONTEXTSChildren and Media - David Buckingham A Cultural Studies ApproachThe African Reception of Global Media - Larry Strelitz and Priscilla BoshoffRelations Between Globalization and Localization - Jette Rygaard Young People′s Media Culture in GreenlandGames and Media - Maria Heller The Acquisition of Social Structure and Social RulesUses of Media - Stephanie Donald Participant Researchers in Asian ContextsMedia and Girls′ Issues in China - Bu Wei Media as Strategy for Gender EqualityContextualizing Media Competencies Amongst Young People in Indian Culture - Usha Nayar and Amita BhideInterface with GlobalizationYouth, Media and Culture in the Arab World - Marwan Kraidy and Joe KhalilSituated Media Appropriations in Brazil - Norbert Wildermuth Imagination, Empowerment and ExclusionHas Television Become a Connecting Culture? - Letizia Caronia and André H. Caron A Cross-Cultural StudyPERSPECTIVESTrans-National Media Mixing - Mizuko ItoCultural Production and Exchange in International Anime CulturesJapanese Young People, Media and Everyday Life - Toshie Takahashi Towards the De-Westernising of Media StudiesNew Visions of Literacy - Renee Hobbs The Great Debates ContinueFrom Parental Control to Peer Pressure - Dominique Pasquier Cultural Transmission and ConformismThe Commodification of Kids′ Culture - Janet Wasko Media and Communications Regulation and Child Protection - David Oswell An Overview of the FieldFacilitating Political Participation - Peter Dahlgren Young Citizens, Internet and Civic CulturesChildren′s Communication Rights - Cees Hamelink Beyond Intentions

Kirsten Drotner is Professor of Media Studies at the Institute for the Study of Culture at the University of Southern Denmark. Her research examines media audiences′ meaning-making in historical and contemporary perspective; media and digital literacies; digital co-creation and learning; qualitative methodologies inc. media ethnography; ICT studies and e-learning; digital museum studies; and child and youth culture studies. She is author or editor of six books in English, 24 books in Danish and numerous academic articles and chapters in edited volumes. She is an elected fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. Sonia Livingstone DPhil (Oxon), OBE, FBA, FBPS, FAcSS, FRSA, is a professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Taking a comparative, critical and contextualised approach, her research examines how changing conditions of mediation reshape everyday practices and possibilities for action. She has published 20 books on media audiences, children and young people’s risks and opportunities, media literacy and rights in the digital environment, including “Parenting for a Digital Future: How hopes and fears about technology shape children’s lives” (OUP 2020). Since founding the EC-funded 33 country “EU Kids Online” research network, and Global Kids Online (with UNICEF Office of Research-Innocenti), she has advised DCMS, UKCIS, Ofcom, European Commission, European Parliament, UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, OECD, ITU and UNICEF. She chaired LSE’s Truth, Trust and Technology Commission and is currently leading the Digital Futures Commission with the 5Rights Foundation. See www.sonialivingstone.net

This volume breaks new ground. Its ambitious goal is to deliver a holistic approach to children’s culture... Sonia Livingstone and Kirsten Drotner are well equipped for the job of attempting such a radically inclusive approach. Both scholars have conducted transnational empirical audience research, and are therefore not naive when it comes to the difficulties of such an enterprise. They are appropriate public intellectuals to embark on a job of creating bridges between a range of geographically dispersed scholarly and political discourses... The volume provides a stimulating read for researchers in a range of disciplines. It also deserves to be recommended to media regulators, politicians and journalism students.

• CONTINUITIES AND CHANGECulture-Nature and the Construction of Childhood - Alan Prout The Child in the Picture - Patricia Holland Managing Monsters - Dan Fleming Videogames and the `Mediatization′ of the ToyHarlequin Meets the SIMS - Jacqueline Reid-Walsh A History of Interactive Narrative Media for Children and Youth From Early Flap Books to Contemporary Multi MediaPROBLEMATICSMaking Waves - Chas Critcher Panic Discourses about the Media and Children or Young People, Past and PresentChildren and Media in the Context of the Home and Family - Stewart Hoover and Lynn Schofield Clark Reality and Fantasy in Media - Máire Messenger Davies Can Children Tell the Difference and How Do We Know?Mobile Emancipation - Rich Ling and Leslie Haddon Children, Youth and the Mobile PhoneThe Mediated Playground - Dafna Lemish Media in Early ChildhoodDividing Delights - Jane Kenway and Elizabeth Bullen Children, Adults and the Search for SalesHorror Films and Youthful Film Cultures - Anne Jerslev Learning Theory, Videogames, and Popular Culture - James Gee CULTURES AND CONTEXTSChildren and Media - David Buckingham A Cultural Studies ApproachThe African Reception of Global Media - Larry Strelitz and Priscilla BoshoffRelations Between Globalization and Localization - Jette Rygaard Young People′s Media Culture in GreenlandGames and Media - Maria Heller The Acquisition of Social Structure and Social RulesUses of Media - Stephanie Donald Participant Researchers in Asian ContextsMedia and Girls′ Issues in China - Bu Wei Media as Strategy for Gender EqualityContextualizing Media Competencies Amongst Young People in Indian Culture - Usha Nayar and Amita BhideInterface with GlobalizationYouth, Media and Culture in the Arab World - Marwan Kraidy and Joe KhalilSituated Media Appropriations in Brazil - Norbert Wildermuth Imagination, Empowerment and ExclusionHas Television Become a Connecting Culture? - Letizia Caronia and André H. Caron A Cross-Cultural StudyPERSPECTIVESTrans-National Media Mixing - Mizuko ItoCultural Production and Exchange in International Anime CulturesJapanese Young People, Media and Everyday Life - Toshie Takahashi Towards the De-Westernising of Media StudiesNew Visions of Literacy - Renee Hobbs The Great Debates ContinueFrom Parental Control to Peer Pressure - Dominique Pasquier Cultural Transmission and ConformismThe Commodification of Kids′ Culture - Janet Wasko Media and Communications Regulation and Child Protection - David Oswell An Overview of the FieldFacilitating Political Participation - Peter Dahlgren Young Citizens, Internet and Civic CulturesChildren′s Communication Rights - Cees Hamelink Beyond Intentions