Doktorand
Ämne: Defining the Appropriate: Struggles over Children’s Consumption of Cultural Products in Scandinavia 1950-2000
My PhD project is an investigation of how and why adult’s attitudes towards children’s consumption of cultural products have changed in Scandinavia between 1950 and 2000. The answer to this question can be found through a study of a number of public debates in the period, debates which all to some extent revolved around the definition of which cultural products that were (in)appropriate for children: Debates about comics in the mid 1950s, children’s literature in the late 1960s and early 1970s, videos and television in the mid 1980s and computer games in the late 1990s. These debates all represent clashes between various groups in society’s views of children, childhood and cultural products. Thus the project investigates how changes in the dominating ideas concerning ‘appropriate’ cultural products for children relate to changes the hierarchy between various professional and social groups in the Scandinavian societies. Especially the power relations between the three entities – family, welfare state and market – are studied in relation to differences in opinions about children’s consumption of cultural products.
European University Institute, Department of History and Civilization
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Avhandling
Avsedd publiceringsform: Bok
Beräknat publiceringsdatum: sommaren 2012