Includes bibliographical references and index.
Where do snails watch television? Preschool television and New Zealand children / Geoff Lealand -- Teaching the Nintendo generation? Children, computer culture and popular technologies / Bill Green, Jo-Anne Reid and Chris Bigum -- Zapping Freddy Krueger: children's use of disapproved video texts / Mark Laidler -- Unbalanced minds? Children thinking about television / Sue Howard -- The middle years: children and television - cool or just plain boring? / Linda Sheldon -- Video game culture: playing with masculinity, violence and pleasure / Nola Alloway and Pam Gilbert -- 'It's different to a mirror 'cos it talks to you': teenage girls, video cameras and identity / Gerry Bloustein -- The friendly phone / Patricia Gillard, Karen Wale and Amanda Bow -- Dear Anne Summers : 'microfeminism' and media representation of women / Sue Turnbull. |