Children and Media Outside the Home Playing and Learning in After-School Care

by Vered, Karen Orr

• ISBN13: 9780230537293
• ISBN10: 0230537294
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-08-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Karen Orr Vered demonstrates how children's media play contributes to their acquisition of media literacy. Theorizing after-school care as intermediary space, a large-scale ethnographic study informs this theory-rich and practical discussion of children's media use beyond home and classroom.

Author Biography

KAREN ORR VERED is Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies and Digital Media Studies at Flinders University, Australia.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. vii
Acknowledgements	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Informal Learning and Media in After-School Care	p. 5
Mediating media: The case of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone	p. 10
Intermediary space	p. 17
Media competency or media literacy: What's the difference?	p. 18
Discovery (research methods)	p. 23
Childhood and Childcare in Australia	p. 29
Women at home and caring for children	p. 31
OSHC: Law and legacy	p. 35
The US model for after-school care	p. 39
Children and childhoods: Past and present	p. 43
Children, consumerism, and popular culture	p. 46
Media and childhood	p. 47
Public funding and childcare in Australia	p. 48
Participation in childcare: Who attends?	p. 52
OSHC in South Australia - Childcare, not schooling	p. 54
Media use in OSHC - A few introductory remarks	p. 57
Intermediary Space	p. 61
Theorizing OSHC as intermediary space	p. 61
Domestic disruptions	p. 74
Whither the private/public divide?	p. 75
Pokemon on the Playground	p. 77
Migratory media: Pokemon on the playground	p. 77
The social shape of taking turns	p. 82
Formal regulation and media classification	p. 85
The Place of Media in Children's Leisure	p. 91
Principles of play	p. 91
Measuring the benefits of play	p. 97
Local regulation or the rules in OSHC	p. 103
TV and Video in OSHC	p. 108
TV monitors and media access	p. 109
TV time and space	p. 110
TV screens and stories	p. 113
Video playback	p. 115
An active audience	p. 118
Digital Games and the Internet in OSHC	p. 124
Video game play essentials: Hardware, software, and play space	p. 124
Social gaming	p. 125
Software and gaming platforms	p. 130
Management and the active gaming culture	p. 132
Computers, software, and Internet access	p. 134
Media and play: Finding the balance	p. 143
Making Media	p. 146
'Edutainment' - A useful metaphor	p. 146
Media recreation/education	p. 147
The media mix	p. 148
Movie Magic: Making movies in OSHC	p. 149
Consumer practices in the service of media education	p. 151
Star power in kid production	p. 153
Genre and popular film culture	p. 154
Talk about movies	p. 155
Special effects and movie spectacle	p. 157
Take two: Room for improvement	p. 159
Practice and Play	p. 165
Theory and practice in children's media play	p. 165
The benefits of public recreational media access	p. 170
Ensuring equity and building competency in play	p. 172
Managing media play in OSHC	p. 173
Media access	p. 174
More than consumption: Media production as play	p. 176
Letter and Consent Form	p. 180
Kid's Interview Form	p. 183
Notes	p. 187
Bibliography	p. 190
Index	p. 196
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