Wired-up : young people and the electronic media /

Wired-Up presents a collection of articles on young people's uses and readings of popular cultural forms, ranging from television and video to computer games, music videos, news and the telephone.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Howard, Sue
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; Bristol, Pa. : UCL Press, 1998.
Series:	Media, education and culture.
Subjects:	Mass media and children > New Zealand. Mass media and children > Australia. Mass media and teenagers > New Zealand. Mass media and teenagers > Australia. Television and children > New Zealand. Television and children > Australia. Video games > Psychological aspects. Interactive videos > Psychological aspects. Médias et enfants > Nouvelle-Zélande. Médias et enfants > Australie. Médias et adolescents > Nouvelle-Zélande. Médias et adolescents > Australie. Télévision et enfants > Nouvelle-Zélande. Télévision et enfants > Australie. Jeux vidéo > Aspect psychologique. Vidéos interactives > Aspect psychologique. Mobile telephones. Video games. Mass media. Youth. Television. Children. Interactive videos > Psychological aspects Mass media and children Mass media and teenagers Television and children Video games > Psychological aspects Australia New Zealand Kind Massenmedien Aufsatzsammlung Jugend Neuseeland Televisie. Computerspelen. Video. Jongeren.
Online Access:	E-book - Full text from Ebook Central Publisher description

Table of Contents:

Where do snails watch television? Preschool television and New Zealand children / Geoff Lealand
Teaching the Nintendo generation? Children, computer culture and popular technologies / Bill Green, Jo-Anne Reid and Chris Bigum
Zapping Freddy Krueger : children's use of disapproved video texts / Mark Laidler
Unbalanced minds? Children thinking about television / Sue Howard
The middle years : children and television
cool or just plain boring? / Linda Sheldon
Video game culture : playing with masculinity, violence and pleasure / Nola Alloway and Pam Gilbert
'It's different to a mirror 'cos it talks to you' : teenage girls, video cameras and identity / Gerry Bloustein
The friendly phone / Patricia Gillard, Karen Wale and Amanda Bow
Dear Anne Summers : 'microfeminism' and media representation of women / Sue Turnbull.