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The 1960s in Scandinavia : a time of change and its impact on concepts of children’s media
No full textThis article, based on extensive source material from Denmark, Sweden and Norway, is about the changing norms for children’s media, childhood and art in Scandinavia in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The analysis demonstrates how changes within welfare state institutions converged with the youth rebellion’s wider criticism of children’s low status in traditional power hierarchies, and contributed to new definitions of the role of media in children’s lives. After establishing a wider historical contextualisation, the article moves on to show how the criticism of existing norms in the realm of children’s literature in the mid-1960s grew into a critique of the prevailing ideologies and existing narratives in all children’s media (including film, theatre and television) at the end of the decade. A key figure in the redefinition of norms for children’s media was the Swede, Gunilla Ambjörnsson. Her 1968 book, Trash Culture for Children, led to discussions about the role of media in children’s lives all over Scandinavia. Her core belief in the innate social and political interests of children had a great impact on the ways in which the possibilities for an explicit political agenda in children’s media were conceptualised in Scandinavia at large
Tv til børn. En analyse af Danmarks Radios Børne- og Ungdomsafdelings programpolitik og produktioner 1968-1972
No full textThe subject of this thesis is Danish children’s television between 1968 and 1972. The main objective is to examine how the Children and Youth department (B&U) of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation understood the function(s) of children’s television in children’s lives. The analysis is carried out on two levels, namely in terms of the program policy and the programs. The analysis is guided by a number of thematic aims, which have been formulated on the basis of previous research in related fields. Is it important to stress, that in opposition to some of the previous research in related fields this thesis perceives children’s television as a complex arena. Thus children’s television in the chosen period is seen as a complex result of the many different views upon the function of pedagogy, children’s (television) culture and public service television’s role in society at the time.The subject of this thesis is Danish children’s television between 1968 and 1972. The main objective is to examine how the Children and Youth department (B&U) of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation understood the function(s) of children’s television in children’s lives. The analysis is carried out on two levels, namely in terms of the program policy and the programs. The analysis is guided by a number of thematic aims, which have been formulated on the basis of previous research in related fields. Is it important to stress, that in opposition to some of the previous research in related fields this thesis perceives children’s television as a complex arena. Thus children’s television in the chosen period is seen as a complex result of the many different views upon the function of pedagogy, children’s (television) culture and public service television’s role in society at the time
Doing Media History in a Digital Age:Change and Continuity in Historiographical Practices
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Making Children’s ‘Classics’, Making Past Childhoods:Children’s ‘classics’ as sites for memory politics and nostalgia
No full textParent-Pressure: A History of Parents as Co-consumers of Children’s Media
No full textIn this article, I examine change and continuity in conceptions of parental agency in public debates about children’s media consumption in Scandinavia, 1945-1975. During this period, public debates about the various kinds of media products children consumed were dominated by different groups of professionals: first, by teachers and librarians in the mid-fifties and, then, by intellectuals and performing artists in the late sixties. With a radically changed professional hegemony and a shifting media landscape, the role of media in children’s lives was described very differently during the period. However, a strong continuity in the debates was the negative influence parents were seen as having on children’s media consumption due to their lack of insight and interest in the topic. Drawing upon recent works on children’s media, consumption and enculturation, I analyse why the negative description of parents as co-consumers prevailed despite radical changes in views on children’s media consumption. In particular, I examine the shared inter-Scandinavian socio-cultural contexts that structured the changing professional and political groups’ pressure on parents to perform according to their norms and values
Defining the (in)appropriate : Scandinavian debates about the role of media in children's lives, 1950-1985
No full textDefence date: 12 April 2013Examining Board: Professor Giulia Calvi, European University Institute (Supervisor) Professor Maria Sundkvist, Linköping University (External Supervisor) Professor David Buckingham, Loughborough University Professor Laura Lee Downs, European University Institute.PDF of thesis uploaded from the Library digital archive of EUI PhD thesesThis thesis investigates public debates about the role of media in children’s lives in Scandinavia from the mid-nineteen fifties to the early eighties. The thesis breaks with the theoretical approaches 'moral panic’ and 'media panic’ which have previously dominated analyses of debates about children and media in the past, in the fields of Media and Childhood Studies. It shows how the epistemological basis of these approaches have alienated the historical agents and their arguments leading to teleological and reductionist narratives. The consequence has been the loss of history as a complex and multifaceted backdrop in today’s discussions about children’s relationship with media. This historiographical point is followed up by constructing an alternative theoretical and methodological framework for an analysis of the debates about children and media in the past, drawing upon inspiration from new theories about media in transition, new cultural history and consumption studies. The analyses carried out in the thesis’ Parts I-III compare different opinions about children’s media consumption on a synchronic as well as a diachronic level. The three periods: the mid-fifties, late sixties/early seventies and early eighties work as core-periods for this comparison. A total of 3361 articles systematically collated from these periods’ newspapers and periodicals make up the main source base. On the synchronic level, the thesis demonstrates how different views of children, childhood and media have existed side by side, and that large parts of debates about children’s media consumption have involved arguments about not only one, but numerous media at the time. Via the diachronic comparison it is shown how continuity and break in definitions of (in)appropriate media for children have depended on, in particular, the professional background of the debaters, socio-cultural processes in Scandinavia and influences from international trends. Finally, the thesis shows how the past debates about media and children must be understood as concrete and important arenas for the discussion of the future society, especially because the experiences which the different media are believed to convey, have been perceived as important in children’s character formation
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