The Film, Television and Media Studies department at University of East Anglia is holding a Study Day on the topic of children's media culture. The event takes place Wednesday, the 6th of November, 9am-5pm. Full details below.
If you have any questions, please e-mail one of the organisers: Filipa Antunes ([log in to unmask]), Alec Plowman ([log in to unmask]) and Martin Tease ([log in to unmask]).
Kid Culture:
Thinking Differently About Children’s Media
UEA School of Film, Television and Media Study Day
Lecture Theatre 1, Wednesday 6th November 2013, 9am - 5pm
Twitter: @KidCultureUEA #KidCultureUEA
Panel 1: 9am to 10.30am
Watching Children’s Media
Melanie Williams
Children’s Media, Adult Viewers: A study of Mumsnet and Netmums responses to
CBeebies’ Mr Bloom’s Nursery
Peter Kramer
“’A film specially suitable for children’:
The Marketing and Reception of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)”
Phyll Smith
Storm Over Children’s Film Shows:
The British Serial scandal and the children’s film movement
Break: 10.30am to 11am
Panel 2: 11am to 12.30pm
Images and Representations
Sarah Godfrey and Su Holmes
Debating the ‘family’ on CBeebies
Filipa Antunes
“Children Beware - You’re In For A Scare!”
Goosebumps and the horrors of puberty
Matt Selway
Re-evaluating Discourses on Children’s Exposure to Mental Illness on Television
Lunch Break: 12.30pm to 1.30pm
Panel 3: 1.30pm to 3pm
Children Using Media
Helena Dare-Edwards
Convergence Culture, Tween Girls and Nickelodeon
Melanie Kennedy
‘Keeping it Real’:
Narratives of Celebrity in Tween Popular Culture
Adam Scales
“Going Back to Summer Camp”:
Growing Up Gay, with Horror
Break: 3pm to 3.30pm
Panel 4: 3.30pm to 5pm
Playing With Pop Culture
Ekky Imanjaya
The Cult of Si Unyil:
From Children’s TV Puppet Show to Pop Culture Icon
Alec Plowman
“They don’t have nightmares because they’re just pieces of plastic”
Adapting Aliens for a Children’s Toy Line
Patrick Bingham
Re-Gendered Toys:
Tamagotchi and the Move towards Femaleness
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