Young People and New Media: Childhood and the Changing Media Environment Review

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(More customer reviews)This is an excellent resource for anyone interested in how young people are utilizing the Internet. A wide array of scholars tackle some of the many issues facing the changing media landscape. They provide much needed insights while also raising questions for further research.

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We can no longer imagine leisure, or the home, without media and communication technologies, and for the most part, we would not want to. Yet as worldwide the television screen in the family home is set to become the site of a multimedia culture integrating telecommunications, broadcasting, computing and video, many questions arise concerning their place in our daily lives.

Young People and New Media offers an invaluable up-to-date account of children and young people's changing media environment at the end of the twentieth century. By locating the insights drawn from a major empirical research reported in Young People, New Media within a survey of the burgeoning but fragmented research literature on ne