K. Vered

Children and Media Outside the Home

Playing and Learning in After-School Care

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Produktbeschreibung

Karen Orr Vered demonstrates how children's media play contributes to their acquisition of media literacy. Theorizing after-school care as intermediary space, a large-scale ethnographic study informs this theory-rich and practical discussion of children's media use beyond home and classroom.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-35901-1
• 1st ed. 2008
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 274g
• ISBN-13: 9781349359011
• ISBN-10: 1349359017
• Artikelnr.: 45083047

Autorenporträt

KAREN ORR VERED is Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies at Flinders University, South Australia. Her work on children and media, television and digital media has appeared in Velvet Lighttrap, Continuum, Convergence and Simile. She has acted as research consultant for Nielsen/NetRatings and serves on the Media Studies Subject Advisory Committee for Secondary Schools in South Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Informal Learning and Media in Out of School Hours Care Childhood and Childcare in Australia Intermediary Space Pokemon on the Playground The Place of Media in Children's Leisure Television and Video in Out of School Hours Care Digital Games and the Internet in Out of School Hours Care Making Media Practice and Play Appendices Notes Bibliography Index