Introduction published in:
From Superman to Social Realism: Children's media and Scandinavian childhoodHelle Strandgaard Jensen
[Children’s Literature, Culture, and Cognition 6] 2017
► pp. 1–20
IntroductionDebating children’s media, defining Scandinavian childhood
Article outline
- Understanding historical debates about children’s media: Message, not medium
- Debates about children and media as ‘consumption politics’
- Writing Scandinavian childhood history
- Children’s media history: A Scandinavian perspective
- Public debates as socio-cultural struggles
- Consumption politics in action: Defining the arena and its agents
- Overview