Children and Media. Image Education Participation

The edition of 1999 brings together researchers, teachers, media professionals and representatives of voluntary organizations in different parts of the world, all of whom have devoted their creativity and energies to the development of media education and children's media participation – ultimately vital contributions to the maintenance and enhancement of democratic society. The Yearbook comes with the bibliography: Children and Media Violence Research. 

Content

Foreword
Ulla Carlsson

Preface
Henrikas Yushkiavitshus

Media Education, Children’s Participation and Democracy
Cecilia von Feilitzen

Children’s Rights and Media: Conciliating Protection and Participation
Paulo David

Children’s Access to Media and Media Use

Children’s Changing Media Environment. Overview of a European Comparative Study
Sonia Livingstone, Katharine J. Holden, Moira Bovill

Media Access and Media Use Among 12-year-olds in the World
Jo Groebel

Children’s Amount of TV Viewing. Statistics from Ten Countries

The Image of the Child in the Media

The Image of Children in Prime Time Television. Casting and Fate
George Gerbner

The News Media’s Picture of Children in the United States
Dale Kunkel, Stacy L. Smith

Children and Media in Pakistan
Masroor Mohsin Gilani

Advocates of a New Consumer Society. Children in Television Advertising
Leela Rao

Some Thoughts on Developing Child-friendly Media
Mike Jempson

‘Kids These Days...’. A Seminar Researched and Presented by Young Journalists from Children’s Express

Media Education

Media Education in Canada – the Second Spring
Neil Andersen, Barry Duncan, John J. Pungente

South African Media Education in the Late Twentieth Century. Rising Phoenix or Dying Swan?
Jeanne Prinsloo

Australian Children and the Media. Education, Participation and Enjoyment
Barrie McMahon, Robyn Quin

Media Education in Europe. With Special Focus on the Nordic Countries
Birgitte Tufte

The Place of Production. Media Education and Youth Media Production in the UK.
David Buckingham

Against Violence: Sensorial Experiences Involving Light and Sight. Media Education and Educational Technology from a Latin American Point of View
Ismar de Oliveira Soares

The Changing Media Scenario in India. Implications for Media Education
Keval J. Kumar

Children’s Participation in the Media

The Media and Our Children: The Promise of Participation
Feny de los Angeles-Bautista

The Convention Goes Live. UNICEF’s International Children’s Day of Broadcasting and Voices of Youth
Francis Mead

Children’s Participation in Brazilian Television
Beth Carmona

These Are Our Stories. The Teen Video Story Adventure
Connie John

Children and Television in China
Jia Peijun

The Austrian Children’s Charter on Television
Ingrid Geretschlaeger

Animation at School. A Model for Media Teaching at Comprehensive School Level
Erling Ericsson

Summer Talks. Children and Producers Talk to Each Other
Olga Linné

Children and Professionals. Creating Video Films Together
Jerzy Moszkowicz

Video and Intercultural Communication
Horst Niesyto

Video Production by Japanese Students. Introducing their Everyday Life to a Foreign Audience
Yasuo Takakuwa

TV By Teens, For Teens. Developing and Evaluating a Production Model
Lin Ai-Leen

Young Broadcasters in Ghana
Sarah Akrofi-Quarcoo

I’m a Child, but I Have My Rights, Too!
Mimi Brazeau

Children’s Participation in Radio, Burkina Faso
François Zongo

Moving Towards Participation on the Internet. New Radio Initiatives for Children and Young People
Sarah McNeill

The Online Kids. Children’s Participation on the Internet
Ebba Sundin

Bhima Patrike. An Indian Wall Magazine for Working Children
Kavita Ratna, N. Lakshmi

Mambo Leo, Sauti ya Watoto. A Children’s Magazine in Tanzania
Esther Obdam

Australian Students Making Media
Roger Holdsworth

Communication Media: For or Against Education?
Carlos A. Arnaldo

International and Regional Declarations and Resolutions – Children and Media

European Convention on Transfrontier Television of the Council of Europe

The European Union Directive “Television without Frontiers”

The European Broadcasting Union’s Guidelines for Programmes when Dealing with the Portrayal of Violence

Bratislava Resolution

The Children’s Television Charter

The SADC Children’s Broadcasting Charter

Asian Declaration on Child Rights and the Media

Africa Charter on Children’s Broadcasting

The UNESCO Action Plan on Cultural Policies for Development

Child Rights and the Media: Guidelines for Journalists

The European Union Recommendation on the Protection of Minors and Human Dignity in Audiovisual and Information Services

The European Union Action Plan on Promoting Safer Use of the Internet

Declaration and Action Plan on Sexual Abuse of Children, Child Pornography and Paedophilia on the Internet

Information and Child Rights: The Challenge of Media Engagement. Survey of National and International Standards for Journalists Reporting Children’s Issues (Extract)
Mike Jempson, Bill Norris (IFJ)

Organizations and Networks – Children and Media

Organizations Concerned with Children and Media Compiled by Pia Hepsever

Internet Addresses by and for Children Compiled by Ebba Sundin

Authors