Call for Papers
Child and Teen Consumption 2008
Third international conference on multidisciplinary perspectives on child
and teen consumption
24-25 April 2008
Norwegian Centre for Child Research
NTNU
Trondheim, Norway
This conference is the third in an ongoing series establishing a dialogue
between specialists from a variety of academic disciplines focusing on young
consumers in contemporary society. Following previous conferences at the
European Center for Children’s Products, University of Poitiers, France, and
the Copenhagen Business School, this third conference will be held at the
Norwegian Centre for Child Research, one of the leading international
centres in Childhood Studies. During the two days, research will be
presented on children’s and young people’s position in consumer society, how
children develop their consumer competences, and consumer socialization in
general. The emphasis is on creating a multi-disciplinary discussion uniting
ideas from historical, psychological, sociological, managerial and other
social science perspectives.
Keynote speakers at the conference will include Janet Wasko, Ellen Seiter
and Gary Cross.
We welcome proposals for single papers and thematic panels (featuring three
or four papers on a common theme). The conference language will be English.
Potential topics might include:
• Children’s and young people’s consumption practices
• Children’s roles in the consumer decision-making process
• The history of children’s consumer culture
• Media, consumption and youth culture
• Consumer culture and childhood identities
• Children and advertising
• Consumer socialization
• Media and consumer literacies
• Ethics and children’s consumption
• The globalization of children’s culture and youth culture
• Marketing practices, rhetorics and appeals
• Theories of consumer culture
• The role of new media in consumer socialisation
• Public policy and media regulation
• Research methods to investigate child and teen consumption
Deadlines
October 1, 2007: Submission of abstracts (around 1000 words). Abstracts
should include the following:
o the aim and focus of the paper
o the chosen research methodology
o the main results – empirical or conceptual
o a short bibliography of key references.
In the case of panel proposals, chairs should gather abstracts (3-4 per
panel) and submit these with an overall rationale.
Abstracts and panel proposals should be submitted online via the website:
http://www.svt.ntnu.no/noseb/consuming/events_conference_submissionofabstracts.htm
December, 2007: Notification to the authors regarding acceptance, based on
double blind review.
March 1, 2008: Submission of full paper.
April 27 - 28, 2008: The conference will be held at the Britannia Hotel,
Trondheim. Participants will be welcomed at a reception on the evening of
April 26th.
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