Video critical : children, the environment and media power / David Gauntlett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gauntlett, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media and children--Research.

Mass media and children.

Television and children.

Children's films.

Children's television programs.

Children and the environment.

Physical Description:

viii, 176 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Luton, Bedfordshire, U.K. : University of Luton Press (John Libbey Media), [1996]

Summary:

In this follow-up to his highly-acclaimed Moving Experiences (1995), David Gauntlett travels beyond the relatively straightforward questions about the possible direct effects of television on behaviour, to explore the contribution which television can make to viewers understandings of the world.

Arguing fiercely against the attempts of psychologists to explain complex social issues in individualistic terms, Video Critical racks the focus back yet further, undertaking a more sophisticated journey towards an understanding of the place of media in the lives of children at the end of the twentieth century.

Kicking off with a characteristically readable and exciting chapter on critical theory, the book battles with models of the child audience, and the failure of cultural studies to fully explain the way in which meanings are made, and argues that giving children themselves the opportunity to make their own media is the way into understanding the meanings which it holds for them.

Video Critical presents for the first time the findings of a new research method developed especially for this study, in which groups of Leeds schoolchildren were given video facilities in order that they could make their own video productions. Taking the environment as their focus, the videos suggest that the children's views of both environmental issues and the mass media are complex and contradictory. The children's work is also considered in relation to the aims of the producers of broadcast television programmes which involve environmental material, who were also interviewed for the study.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-168) and index.

ISBN:

1860205135

1860205125

OCLC:

37311997