20 Questions About Youth and the Media - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820463345 ISBN 13: 9780820463346

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2007

Synopsis

'20 Questions' is a comprehensive guide to today's most pressing issues in the study of children, tweens, and teens and the media. Sharon R. Mazzarella brings together leading experts to address a range of topics from government regulation and the effects of violent entertainment to the commercialization of youth culture and self-identity. This book is designed with the classroom in mind, with accessible writing and end-of-chapter questions.

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Review:

« This readable, comprehensive compendium could be titled 'Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Youth and Media.' Its broad scope covers politics, research, social aspects, and history, providing background, insights, and up-to-date information on numerous topics, from longtime debates over violence and television, to the recent controversy over indecency in broadcasting, to contemporary research on how young people are using the Internet and digital media. It is an essential resource for students, parents, policy makers, and the press.

-This readable, comprehensive compendium could be titled 'Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Youth and Media.' Its broad scope covers politics, research, social aspects, and history, providing background, insights, and up-to-date information on numerous topics, from longtime debates over violence and television, to the recent controversy over indecency in broadcasting, to contemporary research on how young people are using the Internet and digital media. It is an essential resource for students, parents, policy makers, and the press.- (Kathryn C. Montgomery, Professor, School of Communication, American University; Author, 'Generation Digital: Politics, Commerce, and Childhood in the Age of the Internet')"

This readable, comprehensive compendium could be titled 'Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Youth and Media.' Its broad scope covers politics, research, social aspects, and history, providing background, insights, and up-to-date information on numerous topics, from longtime debates over violence and television, to the recent controversy over indecency in broadcasting, to contemporary research on how young people are using the Internet and digital media. It is an essential resource for students, parents, policy makers, and the press. (Kathryn C. Montgomery, Professor, School of Communication, American University; Author, 'Generation Digital: Politics, Commerce, and Childhood in the Age of the Internet')

''This readable, comprehensive compendium could be titled 'Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Youth and Media.' Its broad scope covers politics, research, social aspects, and history, providing background, insights, and up-to-date information on numerous topics, from longtime debates over violence and television, to the recent controversy over indecency in broadcasting, to contemporary research on how young people are using the Internet and digital media. It is an essential resource for students, parents, policy makers, and the press.'' Kathryn C. Montgomery, Professor, School of Communication, American University; Author, Generation Digital: Politics, Commerce, and Childhood in the Age of the Internet

About the Author:

The Editor: Sharon R. Mazzarella is Associate Professor in the Communication Studies Department at Clemson University. She is editor of Girl Wide Web: Girls, the Internet and the Negotiation of Identity (Peter Lang, 2005) and co-editor of Growing Up Girls: Popular Culture and the Construction of Identity (Peter Lang, 1999).

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0820463345
• ISBN 13: 9780820463346
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 316
• Editor: Mazzarella Sharon R.