The Little Emperors’ New Toys A Critical Inquiry into Children and Television in China /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Zhao, Bin (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Θέματα: Social sciences.; Sociology.; Cultural studies.; Communication.; Social Sciences.; Sociology, general.; Cultural Studies.; Communication Studies.

Drawing on original research I conducted in the late 1980s, the book argues for a critical approach to the study of children and television. It begins with critical reappraisals of previous empiricist and interpretative studies to set the ground for a different theoretical inquiry which links biogra...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: In the Name of Modernisation
• 2. Children and Television: Public Concern and Scientific Research
• Roots of Concern
• Television and Change: Before and After
• Windows of Vulnerability
• The Home and the School
• Taking Children Seriously: the Interpretative Turn
• Towards a Critical Perspective
• 3. Positivist Approach and Interpretative Alternative: Critical Reappraisals
• Childhood: Controversies in Conceptualization
• Positivist Approach: an Instrument of Control?
• Interpretative Alternative: a New Empiricist Ethos?.- 4. Critical Approach to the Study of Children and Television
• The Individual and the Society: the Search for Links
• Critical Inquiry and the Study of Children and Television in China
• 5. Children’s Television in China: From Education to Entertainment
• Mass media as Mouthpiece
• The Changing Television Broadcasting System
• Children’s Television: 1959-1990
• 6. Intellectual and moral Education: Parental Control and Children’s Viewing Activity
• Parental Control and Children’s Media Activity: a Historical Sketch
• Parental Control and Children’s Viewing: the Chinese Case
• For a Critical Analysis of the Chinese Case
• 7. The Craze for the Transformers: Children’s Television and the Rise of Consumerism in China
• The New Ethic of Market and Consumption
• The Transformers Fad and Reactions to It
• Beyond the Fad and the Debate
• Conclusion.