David Buckingham: 12 books
Beyond Technology
Children's Learning in the Age of Digital Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
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...
Pikachu s Global Adventure
The Rise and Fall of Pokémon
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2004
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...
Media Education
Literacy, Learning and Contemporary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
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...
by David Buckingham
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
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...
Education and Social Media
Toward a Digital Future
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Leading scholars from a variety of disciplines explore the future of education, including social media usage, new norms of knowledge, privacy, copyright, and MOOCs.
How are widely popular social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram transforming how teachers teach, how kids learn,...
Comunicazionepuntodoc numero 2. Professione comunicatore
Professione comunicatore
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 12, 2013
In questo numero, dedicato ad aggiornare il profilo delle professioni comunicative, dottorandi e ricercatori si confrontano con un set di autorevoli esperti della comunicazione “professata” nei settori del marketing, della pubblica amministrazione, del settore energetico e delle telecomunicazioni,...
The Civic Web
Young People, the Internet, and Civic Participation
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
An investigation of how governments, organizations, and groups use the Internet to promote civic and political engagement among young people.
There has been widespread concern in contemporary Western societies about declining engagement in civic life; people are less inclined to vote, to join...
The Material Child
Growing up in Consumer Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
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...
Computer Games
Text, Narrative and Play
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Computer games are one of the most exciting and rapidly evolving media of our time. Revenues from console and computer games have now overtaken those from Hollywood movies; and online gaming is one of the fastest-growing areas of the internet. Games are no longer just kids' stuff: the majority of...
Representing Agency in Popular Culture
Children and Youth on Page, Screen, and In Between
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
Representing Agency in Popular Culture: Children and Youth on Page, Screen and In-Between addresses the intersection of children’s and youth’s agency and popular culture. As scholars in childhood studies and beyond seek to expand understandings of agency, power, and voice in children’s lives,...
The Making of Citizens
Young People, News and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2002
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...
by David Buckingham, Julian Sefton-Green
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2005
First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.