children, television storytelling, and the public sphere /
Máire Messenger Davies.
New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
1 online resource (viii, 280 pages) :
illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-274) and index.
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Reconstructing childhood; The public sphere; Constructing and disappearing childhood; Reflexivity in research; The study procedure and sample; The sample of children; Part I Broadcasting institutions and childhood; 1 Children and broadcasting in the 1990s; 2 The importance of television storytelling; 3 Changing childhood; 4 'Dear BBC': children's relationship with broadcasters -- the consumer child; Part II The social functions of broadcasting; 5 The Reithian agenda: setting good examples; 6 Censorship.
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Drawing on the diverse views of over 1,300 children in the UK between the ages of 6 and 12, 'Dear BBC' discusses key controversies in the public sphere about children's relationship with the media, especially television drama. This engaging and accessible book will appeal to a broad audience.
eBook Library
EBL201416
"Dear BBC".
Children's television programs-- Great Britain.
Television and children-- Great Britain.
Children's television programs.
Kinderen.
Kinderfernsehen
Kinderfunk
PERFORMING ARTS-- Television-- History & Criticism.