Week 8 Questtion 5 and 4

ABRSTRACT 1:

This first article is by Brigitte Vittrup, 2009. And is a part of the, Journal of Children and Media, Volume 3, Issue 1.

This article discusses the mediation that the parents have on their childrens television habbits and how they perceive their interaction with this mediation. It also discusses how different the different socioeconomic backgrounds of the families change their attempts at mediating their childrens viewing of television. The article also finds out that low income or low socioeconomic status families do not mediate as much as high socioeconomic families and that low (SES) parents do not see that non-age suitable television can affect their children. Again the high (SES) see this as a problem.

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ABSTRACT 2:

Journal of Children and Media, Volume 2, Issue 3, Jo Aldridge; Simon Cross.

This article discusses the contradicting influence that government policy and the media have on children of todays "youth" society. Going into depth about how in the UK media there is a great emphasis on the "youths" and "hoodies" of todays children. Also how the government place laws to protect but also control children and goes on to discuss the affects on childrens social interaction with the law and feeling they should be treated as equals. This attempt at freedom from the law inevitable ends up becoming another page 10 article for the sun.

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ABSTRACT 3:

Underpinning the paradoxes in the artistic fields of MySpace: the problematization of values and popularity in convergence culture by Hiesun Cecilia Suhr.

This article disccuess and raises questions about social networking and its affect on musician break through, using myspace as a prime example the article discusses many points such as myspace music being a participatory media with links to the mainstream so it is also creates a convergence culture. The article questions sites like myspace music, for example, are independent artists using participatory media simply to have their work viewed, or are they seeking mainstream media exposure?

This does not directlt link to children but who are the more digitally native musicians? chuildren are.

here is the link to this article: http://nms.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/11/1-2/179?rss=1

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ABSTRACT 4:

The virtual geographies of social networks: a comparative analysis of Facebook, LinkedIn and ASmallWorld by Zizi Papacharissi

This article discusses four main points, "the private/public balance present in each social networking site, styles of self-presentation in spaces privately public and publicly private, cultivation of taste performances as a mode of sociocultural identification and organization and the formation of tight or loose social settings." The article then goes onto discuss how different sites have different restrictions which would appeal to different audiences for example, the more restricted sites such as, LinkedIn and ASmallWorld, would appeal to an older audience, whereas facebook would appeal to a younger audience because of its looser values and spontaneous activity.

Here is the link for this article: http://nms.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/11/1-2/199?rss=1

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ABSTRACT 5:

Growing Up Coporate: News, Citizenship and young people today. By Cynthia Carter

This article discusses how the coporate and consumer world that we live in has changed the way children interact with society, saying,

The culture in which children are invited
to participate is becoming increasingly individual and commercial and less social
and civic. The language spoken is of the market and its demands for profit rather
than of democracy and the political rights and responsibilities of citizens.

The article also goes onto discuss how there is no social responsibilty to deliver news to teenagers aged 13 to 17 but there is newsround on the BBC for 8 to 12 year olds.

Here is the link to this article: http://tvn.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/10/1/34?rss=1