Chapter published in:
From Superman to Social Realism: Children's media and Scandinavian childhood
Helle Strandgaard Jensen
[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition 6] 2017
► pp. 21–42

Chapter 1
The welfare state’s children and their media consumption

Article outline
  • Studying children’s reading habits
  • Concerns and ideas: An international context
  • The national committees and the comics problem
  • The welfare state’s leading professionals
  • The comics debate: Perspectives on children and society
  • Undemocratic superheroes and the ruin of educational efforts
  • The undesirable culture of capitalism