Editor's Introduction / Sonia Livingstone and Kirsten Drotner, 1
I. CONTINUITIES AND CHANGE, 17
1 Culture-Nature and the Construction of Childhood / Alan Prout, 21
2 The Child in the Picture / Patricia Holland, 36
3 Managing Monsters: Videogames and the 'Mediatization' of the Toy / Dan Fleming, 55
4 Harlequin Meets The SIMS: A History of Interactive Narrative Media for Children and Youth from Early Flap Books to Contemporary Multimedia / Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, 71
II. PROBLEMATICS, 87
5 Making Waves: Historical Aspects of Public Debates about Children and Mass Media / Chas Critcher, 91
6 Children and Media in the Context of the Home and Family / Stewart M. Hoover and Lynn Schofield Clark, 105
7 Reality and Fantasy in Media: Can Children Tell the Difference and How Do We Know? / Maire Messenger Davies, 121
8 Children, Youth and the Mobile Phone / Rich Ling and Leslie Haddon, 137
9 The Mediated Playground: Media in Early Childhood / Dafna Lemish, 152
10 Dividing Delights: Children, Adults and the Search for Sales / Jane Kenway and Elizabeth Bullen, 168
11 Youth Films: Transforming Genre, Performing Audiences / Anne Jerslev, 183
12 Learning Theory, Video Games, and Popular Culture / James Paul Gee, 196
III. CULTURES AND CONTEXTS, 213
13 Children and Media: A Cultural Studies Approach / David Buckingham, 219
14 The African Reception of Global Media / Larry Strelitz and Priscilla Boshoff David, 237
15 Let the World In! Globalization in Greenland / Jette Rygaard, 254
16 Games and Media: The Acquisition of Social Structure and Social Rules / Maria Heller, 271
17 Children, Media and Regional Modernity in the Asia Pacific / Stephanie Hemelryk Donald Index, 299
18 Girls' Issues, Gender and the Media: Feminist Activisms in China / Bu Wei, 314
19 Contextualizing Media Competencies among Young People in Indian Culture: Interface with Globalization / Usha S. Nayar and Amita Bhide, 328
20 Youth, Media and Culture in the Arab World / Marwan M. Kraidy and Joe F. Khalil, 336
21 Constrained Appropriations: Practices of Media Consumption and Imagination amongst Brazilian Teens / Norbert Wildermuth, 351
22 Television Culture and Media Socialization across Countries: Theoretical Issues and Methodological Approaches / Letizia Caronia and Andre H. Caron, 371
IV. PERSPECTIVES, 391
23 Mobilizing the Imagination in Everyday Play: The Case of Japanese Media Mixes / Mizuko Ito, 397
24 Japanese Young People, Media and Everyday Life: Towards the Internationalizing of Media Studies / Toshie Takahashi, 413
25 Debates and Challenges Facing New Literacies in the 21st Century / Renee Hobbs, 431
26 From Parental Control to Peer Pressure: Cultural Transmission and Conformism / Dominique Pasquier, 448
27 The Commodification of Youth Culture / Janet Wasko, 460
28 Media and Communications Regulation and Child Protection: An Overview of the Field / David Oswell, 475
29 Facilitating Political Participation: Young Citizens, Internet and Civic Cultures / Peter Dahlgren and Tobias Olsson, 493
30 Children's Communication Rights: Beyond Intentions / Cees J Hamelink, 508