[ecrea] New COST IS0906 special issue: Children’s Cultures and Media Cultures

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New special issue of the COST Action Transforming Audiences, 
Transforming Societies:

Children’s Cultures and Media Cultures
Edited by Piermarco Aroldi and Cristina Ponte
CASOPIS ZA UPRAVLJANJE KOMUNICIRANJEM
COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT QUARTERLY
Special issue 29, VIII, 2013

Free download at: http://www.fpn.bg.ac.rs/wp-content/uploads/CM29-SE-Web.pdf

This special issue is resulting from the work of the Working Group 4 on 
“Audience transformations and social integration” of the COST Action 
IS0906 “Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies”. COST is an 
intergovernmental framework for European Cooperation in Science and 
Technology, allowing the coordination of nationally-funded research at 
the European level.

The connection between children's cultures and media cultures can be 
considered a privileged area of innovation, in which many different 
actors and stakeholders (children, parents, educators, producers, 
marketing agents, regulators, policy makers and, last but not least, 
scholars) constantly negotiate the meaning of childhood in our 
globalised societies.

In the ever changing landscape of (old and new) media and their 
audiences, convergence between children’s cultures and media cultures is 
an increasingly topical field of study. To name but some of the 
challenges this reality presents, one could note how children and 
adolescents are continually exposed to the expansion of global digital 
TV channels addressed to them; how  the growing investment in marketing 
activities is often associated with new forms of publicity and 
participation in new platforms like SNS sites or mobile communication; 
how new social practices born of changing family structures and the fast 
paced rhythm of everyday life make children’s lives not only far more 
institutionalised, but also increasingly individualistic. In fact, today 
children’s lives are influenced by a culture that is dominated by 
personal and mobile media far more than it ever was in past generations.

In this special issue, some of the aforementioned topics are studied in 
greater depth and debated on different levels, starting with children’s 
experience of everyday life and arriving at the concepts put forward by 
public policies and institutions.

Contents:

Introduction: Children’s Cultures and Media Cultures
Cristina Ponte, Piermarco Aroldi

The Complex Process of Children’s Identity in New Landscapes of Media 
and Culture
Ebba Sundin

Youth Media Participation: Global Perspectives
Sirkku Kotilainen, Annikka Suoninen

TOPmodels and Top Designers: Forms of Social Interaction and Creativity 
in the TOPmodel Online Forums
Mari Mäkiranta

Dress up and What Else? Girls’ Online Gaming, Media Cultures and 
Consumer Culture
Giovanna Mascheroni, Francesca Pasquali

Media, Children and Play: New Practices in a New (and Complex) Ecosystem
Carolina Duek

Meet me at the Coconut Gate at 8.30: ‘Mikmak’ as a Site of Socialisation
David Levin, Sharon Ramer Biel

The Efficiency of Regulation and Self-regulation: Croatian Media’s 
Protection of Children’s Rights (2008 – 2012)
Lana Ciboci, Igor Kanižaj, Danijel Labaš

More Technology, Better Childhoods? The Case of the Portuguese ‘One 
Laptop per Child’ Programme
Sara Pereira

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COST Action IS0906 Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies: 
http://www.cost-transforming-audiences.eu




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