Please send inspection copy.
I teach media literacy to undergraduates students at a private liberal
arts college in Washington state, USA. I also teach a speciality
class in children and electronic media every other year.
Thank you.
Joanne M. Lisosky, Ph.D.
Pacific Lutheran University
Department of Communication and Theatre
12180 Park Ave S
Tacoma Washington USA 98447



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>I thought members of the children-media-uk list might be interested to hear
>about a new book to be published next month:
>
>After the Death of Childhood
>Growing Up in the Age of Electronic Media
>
>David Buckingham, Institute of Education, University of London
>
>'This is a mightily impressive book. David Buckingham surveys a great swathe
>of claims about children and their relations with the media, and confronts
>them with the solid array of real research. He then boldly addresses a
>series of living issues: from censorship for children to children's
>citizenship. You don't have to agree with every argument he makes or
>positions he arrives at to recognise that this is a work of exceptional
>range and rich intelligence.' Martin Barker, University of Sussex
>
>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 widen the gaps between the generations still further?
>
>In this book, David Buckingham provides a lucid and accessible overview of
>recent changes both in childhood and in the media environment. He refutes
>simplistic moral panics about the negative influence of the media, and the
>exaggerated optimism about the 'electronic generation'. In the process, he
>points to the challenges that are posed by the proliferation of new
>technologies, the privatization of the media and of public space, and the
>polarization between media-rich and media-poor. He argues that children can
>no longer be excluded or protected from the adult world of violence,
>commercialism and politics; and that new strategies and policies are needed
>in order to protect their rights as citizens and as consumers.
>
>Based on extensive research, After the Death of Childhood takes a fresh look
>at well-established concerns about the effects of the media on children. It
>offers a challenging and refreshing approach to the perennial concerns of
>researchers, parents, educators, media producers and policy-makers.
>
>229 x 152 mm  245 pages  April 2000
>0-7456-1933-9  pb  £14.99
>
>If you would like an inspection copy of this book and teach an appropriate
>course with more than 10 students, please email me on
>[log in to unmask] with your address and course details. If
>you would like more information on this book and how to order copies, please
>email me at the same address.
>
>Please feel free to forward this message to any relevant person or list.
>I apologise for any cross-posting that might have occurred.
>
>I look forward to hearing from you
>
>Yours sincerely,
>
>Paul Millicheap
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>Polity
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>United Kingdom
>Tel: 01865 382 245
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Dr. Joanne M. Lisosky                   
Assistant Professor                     
Department of Communication and Theatre 
Pacific Lutheran University             
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