Children, Media & Consumption
On the Front Edge
Edited By Karin M. Ekstrom & Birgitte Tufte
December 2007
NORDICOM, Goteborg University
Distributed By Coronet Books
ISBN: 9789189471511
356 pages, Illustrated, 6 1/2" x 9 5/8"
$142.50 Paper Original
Contents Acknowledgement
Ulla Carlsson Foreword
Birgitte Tufte, Karin M. Ekström Introduction
Media Culture
David Buckingham That’s Edutainment. New Media, Marketing and Education in the Home
Pål André Aarsand Children’s Consumption of Computer Games
Ian Grant Online Privacy – An Issue for Adolescents?
Sue Cranmer, Andrew Burn A Glass Half Full? Schools and Young People’s Internet Use in the UK
Birgitte Tufte Tweens as Consumers – with Focus on Girls’ and Boys’ Internet Use
Anne Martensen Mobile Phones and Tweens’ Needs, Motivations and Values. Segmentation Based on Means-end Chains
Vebjørg Tingstad New Technologies, New Methods? Representing Children in Online and SMS Ethnography
Jeanne Prinsloo Youth Media Consumption in South Africa. A Research Overview
Brand and Advertising Culture
Nicoletta Diasio, Simona De Iulio Fun Food from Ritual to Performance. An Anthropological and Communicational Analysis of Kinder Sorpresa Commercials
Jeff Chester, Kathryn C. Montgomery Food Advertising to Children in the New Digital Marketing Ecosystem
Christine Griffin, Agnes Nairn “Busted are Cool but Barbie’s a Minger”. The Role of Advertising and Brands in the Everyday Lives of Junior School Children
Ma Teresa Francés Barceló From “Buy me Something” to “I Want This”
Lars Pynt Andersen Why Don’t They just Show the Product? Tweens’ Reception and Conception of TV-advertising
Stephanie O’Donohoe, Stephen Kline, David Marshall Television Promotion of Children’s Snacks. Food for Thought?
The Authors
Sabrina M. Neeley Children’s Nutritional Understanding. Levels of Knowledge and Sources of Influence
Brian Young Celebrity Endorsement. Theory and Experiments with Children
Family Culture
Jan Phillips Accomplishing Family through Toy Consumption
Anna Sparrman Up the Walls! Children’s Talk about Visuality in Their Own Rooms
Alice Grønhøj Green Girls and Bored Boys? Adolescents’ Environmental Consumer Socialization
Karin M. Ekström Participating in the Catwalk of Consumption
Sociology
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