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1. Digital Generations

   Children, Young People, and the New Media

   Edited by David Buckingham, Rebekah Willett

   Computer games, the Internet, and other new communications media are often seen to pose threats and dangers to young people, but they also provide new opportunities for creativity and self-determination. As we start to look beyond the immediate hopes and fears that new technologies often provoke,...

   Published June 20th 2006 by Routledge
2. Toys, Games, and Media

   Edited by Jeffrey Goldstein, David Buckingham, Gilles Brougere

   This book is a state-of-the-art look at where toys have come from and where they are likely to go in the years ahead. The focus is on the interplay between traditional toys and play, and toys and play that are mediated by or combined with digital technology. As well as covering the technical...

   Published July 14th 2005 by Routledge
3. The Making of Citizens

   Young People, News and Politics

   By David Buckingham

   Series: Media, Education and Culture

   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...

   Published February 2nd 2000 by Routledge
4. Teaching Popular Culture

   Beyond Radical Pedagogy

   Edited by David Buckingham

   Series: Media, Education and Culture

   Teaching about the media and popular culture has been a major concern for radical educators. Yet in recent years, the hyperbolic rhetoric of "critical pedagogy" has come under attack, not only from theoretical perspectives such as feminism, anti-racism and postmodernism, but also in The Light Of...

   Published February 9th 1998 by Routledge
5. Cultural Studies Goes To School

   By David Buckingham, Julian Sefton-Green

   Published December 8th 1994 by Taylor & Francis
6. Children Talking Television

   The Making Of Television Literacy

   Edited by David Buckingham University of London Institute of Education.

   Is television harmful to children? Does it destroy imagination, provode delinquency and violence, undermine family life and have other detrimental effects on children?; The author, himself a parent, teacher and researcher investigates the complex ways in which children actively make meaning and...

   Published March 29th 1993 by Routledge