Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The roles that media play in the lives of children and adolescents, as well as their potential implications for their cognitive, emotional, social and behavioral development, have attracted growing research attention in a variety of disciplines.

The Routledge International Handbook of Children, Adolescents and Media analyses a broad range of complementary areas of study, including children as media consumers, children as active participants in media making, and representations of children in the media. The handbook presents a collection that spans a variety of disciplines including developmental psychology, media studies, public health, education, feminist studies and the sociology of childhood. Essays　provide a unique intellectual mapping of current knowledge, exploring the relationship of children and media in local, national, and global contexts.

Divided into five parts, each with an introduction　explaining the themes and topics covered, the handbook features 57 new contributions from 71 leading academics from 38 countries. Chapters consider vital questions by analyzing texts, audience, and institutions, including:

The Handbook's interdisciplinary approach and comprehensive, international scope make it an authoritative, state of the art guide to the nascent field of Children's Media Studies. It will be indispensable for media scholars and professionals, policy makers, educators, and parents.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Acknowledgements (p. xiii)
• List of contributors (p. xiv)
• Foreword (p. xxiv)
• Introduction: children, adolescents, and media: creating a shared scholarly arena (p. 1)
• Part I Childhoods and constructions (p. 11)
• Editor's introduction (p. 12)
• 1 The co-construction of media and childhood (p. 15)
• 2 Representations of childhood in the media (p. 23)
• 3 Trends in children's consumption of media (p. 31)
• 4 Examining the assumptions in research on children and media (p. 39)
• 5 Ecological approaches to the study of media and children (p. 46)
• 6 Constructing children as consumers (p. 54)
• 7 Critical studies: practice not discipline (p. 61)
• 8 Feminist theory approaches to the study of children and media (p. 68)
• 9 Media culture and childhood in the age of globalization (p. 75)
• Part II Channels and convergence (p. 83)
• Editor's introduction (p. 84)
• 10 Children's print culture: tradition and innovation (p. 87)
• 11 Children's film culture (p. 95)
• 12 Children's television culture (p. 103)
• 13 Children's internet culture: power, change and vulnerability in twenty-first century childhood (p. 111)
• 14 Children's digital gaming cultures (p. 120)
• 15 Mobile communication culture among children and adolescents (p. 127)
• 16 Children's music culture: commerce, technology, and tradition (p. 134)
• 17 Children and consumer culture (p. 141)
• 18 Children and convergence culture: new perspectives on youth participation with media (p. 148)
• 19 Children's techuologized bodies: mapping mixed reality (p. 156)
• Part III Concerns and consequences (p. 165)
• Editor's introduction (p. 166)
• 20 Screen media, early cognitive development, and language: babies' learning from screens (p. 171)
• 21 Children's media use and its relation to attention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity (p. 179)
• 22 Media, imagination and fantasy (p. 186)
• 23 Social media and creativity (p. 193)
• 24 Media and emotional development (p. 201)
• 25 The behavioral, affective, and cognitive implications of media violence: complex relationships between young people and texts (p. 209)
• 26 Media and sexual development (p. 217)
• 27 Media, body image, and eating disorders (p. 224)
• 28 Media and obesity (p. 232)
• 29 Media and substance abuse: alcohol, smoking, and drugs (p. 240)
• 30 Media and learning about the social world (p. 247)
• 31 Children and the news: rethinking citizenship in the twenty-first century (p. 255)
• 32 Processes and impacts of political socialization (p. 263)
• 33 Media, advertising, and consumerism: children and adolescents in a commercialized media environment (p. 271)
• 34 Media and gender identities: learning and performing femininity and masculinity (p. 279)
• 35 Internet media and peer sociability (p. 287)
• Part IV Contexts and communities (p. 295)
• Editor's introduction (p. 296)
• 36 Media and the family context (p. 299)
• 37 Media and spaces: the mobile phone in the geographies of young people (p. 307)
• 38 Media and bedroom culture (p. 315)
• 39 Media and peer culture: young people sharing norms and collective identities with and through media (p. 322)
• 40 Media and minority children (p. 329)
• 41 Immigrant children and media (p. 336)
• 42 Young people producing media: spontaneous and project-sponsored media creation around the world (p. 344)
• 43 Media and civic engagement: the role of Web 2.0 technologies in fostering youth participation (p. 351)
• 44 Media, participation, and social change: working within a "youth as knowledge producers" framework (p. 359)
• Part V Collaborations and companions (p. 367)
• Editor's introduction (p. 368)
• 45 Media policies for children: issues and histories in the US (p. 371)
• 46 Media regulation: the protection and promotion of home-grown children's television (p. 378)
• 47 Children and advertising policies in the US and beyond (p. 386)
• 48 Internet policies: online child protection and empowerment in a global context (p. 395)
• 49 Learning from educational television (p. 403)
• 50 New media and learning (p. 410)
• 51 Media literacy (p. 417)
• 52 Challenges and suggestions for determining quality in children's media (p. 425)
• 53 UNICEF and communication for development: an integrated approach to developing capacity to produce communication for and with children (p. 433)
• 54 International initiatives concerning children and media: networks, associations, organisations, institutions, forums ... (p. 442)
• 55 The medical community in the U.S.: treating media as an influence on health and development (p. 451)
• 56 Bridging scholarship and the media industry: how public broadcasting works with academia (p. 459)
• Subject index (p. 465)
• Name index (p. 478)