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Children's Health, Violence, and the Law: Popular Culture

Children and Popular Culture: Books and Journals

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International Handbook of Children, Media and Culture
Offers rich contextualization of children's engagement with their particular media and communication environment, while also pursuing cross-cutting themes in terms of comparative and global trends.
Journal of Children and Media
Journal highlighting all forms and contents of media in regards to all aspects of children’s lives, and especially in three complementary realms: Children as consumers of media, representations of children in the media, and media organizations and productions for children as well as by them.

Boys in Children's Literature and Popular Culture : Masculinity, Abjection, and the Fictional Child by Annette Wannamaker
Call Number: 813.09 W188b (Location : Social Sciences, Health, and Education Library)
ISBN: 0415974690
Publication Date: 2007-07-23
Kid Culture : Children and Adults and Popular Culture by Kathleen McDonnell; D. Shugarman
Call Number: HQ784.T4 M37 2000 (Location: Communications Library)
ISBN: 1864031123
Publication Date: 2000-01-01
Kid Stuff : Marketing Sex and Violence to America's Children by Diane Ravitch (Editor); Joseph P. Viteritti (Editor)
Call Number: HN90.V5 K5 2003 (Location: Communications Library)
ISBN: 0801873274
Publication Date: 2003-04-16
Researching Children's Popular Culture : The Cultural Spaces of Childhood by Claudia Mitchell; Jacqueline Reid-Walsh
Call Number: 305.23 M692r (Location: Main Stacks)
ISBN: 0415239680
Publication Date: 2002-09-27
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture by Thomas Riggs
Call Number: Online Resource
It's Not the Media by Karen Sternheimer
Call Number: 302.230835 St459i (Location: Main Stacks)
ISBN: 0813341388
Publication Date: 2003-09-18

Other Sources

Pew Research Center: Internet & American Life
Common Sense Media: Program for the Study of Children and Media
Kids and the Media (American Psychological Association)
Media and Children (American Academy of Pediatrics)
HealthyChildren.Org
A website maintained by the American Academy of Pediatrics to contribute to its organizational mission of attaining the optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents, and young adults.

Hot Topics in Pop Culture

"French moving to ban child beauty pageants: Should we?"
CNN - 2013
Origins of ‘Slender Man'
BBC - 2014
Children who are cruel to animals: when to worry
Psychology Today - 2011
Number of people killed by animals each year in the U.S. remains unchanged
ScienceDaily - 2018
Children's Right to Play
The Guardian - 2018

Statistics

Mobile App Usage Amongst Children
62% of US Children Own Cell Phones.
More information can be found on Statista.com

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