In the age of social media, fake news and data-driven capitalism, the need for critical understanding is more urgent than ever. Half-baked ideas about ‘media literacy’ will lead us nowhere: we need a comprehensive and coherent educational approach. We all need to think critically about how media work, how they represent the world, and how they are produced and used.In this manifesto, leading scholar David Buckingham makes a passionate case for media education. He outlines its key a...

Are we really living in a post-truth age? Have ideas like information, knowledge and truth passed their sell-by date? Is 'information disorder' leading to the terminal decline of democracy? Or will fact-checkers, media regulators and educators come to the rescue?The End of Information cuts through the exaggerated claims that have been made about these issues. Interrogating the key terms in the debate, including trust, democracy, news, and information itself, the book offer...

Al centro della riflessione di David Buckingham sulla media education e del rapporto tra media e culture giovanili c'è sempre l'individuo. Se pensiamo ai bambini e agli adolescenti, le capacità che devono possedere in relazione ai media digitali non riguardano solo l'uso della tecnologia, ma lo sviluppo di risorse cognitive che permettano loro di valutare le informazioni in modo critico. È necessario orientare gli studi educativi sull'analisi critica dei messaggi. Ciò comporta l'acquisizio...

Considerado um dos maiores especialistas contemporâneos nos estudos que investigam a interface entre crianças, jovens e mídia, David Buckingham apresenta reflexões sobre a educação midiática e seus desdobramentos nas práticas pedagógicas e como ferramenta para o entendimento crítico das mídias em diferentes suportes. Na visão do autor, esse é um direito básico de todos nós, "como o ar que respiramos": trata-se de política pública. O livro traz exemplos extraídos da prática de educadores de...

Niñas y niños crecen en un mundo cada vez más mercantilizado, pero, ¿debemos considerarlos como víctimas de un marketing manipulador o como participantes competentes en la cultura del consumo? La infancia materialista se cuestiona gran parte del saber popular sobre los efectos de la publicidad y el marketing; refuta la idea de las niñas y niños como consumidores incompetentes y vulnerables, aunque de igual manera rechaza la imagen del consumo como expresión del poder y la autonomía de la i...

What will be the fate of childhood in the twenty-first century? Will children increasingly be living 'media childhoods', dominated by the electronic screen? Will their growing access to adult media help to abolish the distinctions between childhood and adulthood? Or will the advent of new media technologies widen the gaps between the generations still further?In this book, David Buckingham provides a lucid and accessible overview of recent changes both in childhood and in the media...

This book examines recent changes in media education and in young people’s lives, and provides an accessible set of principles on which the media curriculum should be based, with a clear rationale for pedagogic practice.David Buckingham is one of the leading international experts in the field - he has more than twenty years' experience in media education as a teacher and researcher.This book takes account of recent changes both in the media and in y...

Right from the origins of cinema, countless films and television dramas have offered sensational and seductive representations of young people's lives. Youth is typically associated with energy, idealism and physical beauty, but it is often represented as both troubled and troubling. These representations are almost always created by adults, implicitly reflecting an adult perspective on how young people 'come of age'.Youth on Screen provides a historical account of represe...

Children today are growing up in an increasingly commercialised world. But should we see them as victims of manipulative marketing, or as competent participants in consumer culture?The Material Child provides a comprehensive critical overview of debates about children’s changing engagement with the commercial market. It moves from broad overviews of the theory and history of children’s consumption to insightful case studies of key areas such as obesity, sexualisation, chil...

Beyond Technology offers a challenging new analysis of learning, young people and digital media. Disputing both utopian fantasies about the transformation of education and exaggerated fears about the corruption of childhood innocence, it offers a level-headed analysis of the impact of these new media on learning, drawing on a wide range of critical research.Buckingham argues that there is now a growing divide between the media-rich world of childrens lives outside school a...

Based on research conducted in Britain and the US, The Making of Citizens traces the dynamic complexities of young people's interpretations of news, and their judgements about the ways in which key social and political issues are represented. Rather than bemoaning young people's ignorance, he argues that we need to rethink what counts as political understanding in contemporary societies, suggesting that we need forms of factual reporting that will engage more effectively with youn...

Initially developed in Japan by Nintendo as a computer game, Pokémon swept the globe in the late 1990s. Based on a narrative in which a group of children capture, train, and do battle with over a hundred imaginary creatures, Pokémon quickly diversified into an array of popular products including comic books, a TV show, movies, trading cards, stickers, toys, and clothing. Pokémon eventually became the top grossing children's product of all time. Yet the phenomenon fizzled as quickly as it h...