Consuming Children: Commercialisation and the Changing Construction of Childhood

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1 Consuming Children: Commercialisation and the Changing Construction of Childhood Workshop programme March 2007 The Britannia Hotel, Trondheim, Norway th anniversary This workshop is one of several events on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of Norwegian Centre for Child Research

2 Programme MONDAY 19 MARCH Welcome Anne Trine Kjørholt, Norwegian Centre for Child Research Opening Rita Bergersen, The Research Council of Norway David Buckingham, Norwegian Centre for Child Research, and University of London, UK Presentation of the Consuming Children project Vebjørg Tingstad, Norwegian Centre for Child Research The national context for the project Tea/Coffee Session 1: History Daniel Thomas Cook, University of Illinois, USA and Rutgers University, Camden, UK Fun morality revisited: Playing with the consuming child Gary Cross, University of Pennsylvania, USA The cool, vanishing markers of maturity, and commercialized childhood in recent American history Tora Korsvold and Linda Bomann, Norwegian Centre for Child Research Lunch and city walk

3 Session 2: Contemporary marketing practices Stig Hjarvard, University of Copenhagen, Denmark From engineers to storytellers: The construction of children s play in LEGO Products and Marketing Andrew Burn, University of London, UK Potter texts: from book and screen to merchandise Ingunn Hagen and Øivind Nakken, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim Tea/Coffee Concluding discussion Dinner at Kvilhaugen Restaurant TUESDAY 20 MARCH Session 3: Tweens Barbro Johansson, Göteborg University, Sweden Gilt edge and health danger on sugar and children in two Swedish magazines Rebekah Willett, University of London, UK Structure, agency and gender in children s online consumer cultures Ingvild Kvale Sørenssen and Christian Dreier Eriksen, Norwegian Centre for Child Research Tea/Coffee

4 Session 4: Methodology Randi Wærdahl, University of Oslo, Norway To be or not to be: Commodified expressions of group affiliations and individuality Claudia Mitchell, McGill University, Canada Bratz, Barbie and brutality: breaking points in the study of childrenʹs participation in research Vebjørg Tingstad and Megan Sommer, Norwegian Centre for Child Research Lunch Session 5: Class Mari Rysst, National Institute for Consumer Research, Oslo, Norway Children and marginalization in the Nordic welfare states: how do cultural priorities and economic resources influence childrenʹs sense of belonging and integration? Ellen Seiter, University of Southern California, USA Practicing at home: Learning from Bourdieu about digital media David Buckingham Tea/Coffee Concluding discussion Dinner

5 Participants Rita Bergersen, e mail: [email protected] The Research Council of Norway Linda Bomann, e mail: [email protected] Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Sociology and Political Science, Trondheim David Buckingham, e mail: [email protected] University of London, Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media, UK and Andrew Burn, e mail: [email protected] University of London, Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media, UK Daniel Thomas Cook, e mail:[email protected] University of Illinois, USA and Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University, Camden, UK Gary Cross, e mail: [email protected] University of Pennsylvania, Department of History & Religious Studies program, USA Christian Dreier Eriksen, e mail: [email protected] Ingunn Hagen, e mail: [email protected] Norwegian University for Science and Technology, Department of Psychology, Trondheim Gry Mette Haugen, e mail: [email protected] Stig Hjarvard, e mail: [email protected] University of Copenhagen, Film and Media Studies, Denmark Barbro Johansson, e mail: [email protected] Göteborg University, Center for Consumer Science, School of Business, Economics and Law, Sweden

6 Anne Trine Kjørholt, e mail: [email protected] Tora Korsvold, e mail: [email protected] Claudia Mitchell, e mail: [email protected] McGill University, Faculty of Education, Canada Ellen Seiter, e mail: [email protected] University of Southern California, Critical Studies Division of the School of Cinematic Arts, USA Mari Rysst, e mail: [email protected] National Institute for Consumer Research, Oslo, Norway. Megan Sommer, e mail: [email protected] Ingvild Kvale Sørenssen, e mail: [email protected] Vebjørg Tingstad, e mail: [email protected] Rebekah Willett, e mail: [email protected] University of London, Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media, UK Randi Wærdahl, e mail: [email protected] University of Oslo, Department of Sociology and Human Geography, Norway Øivind Nakken, e mail: [email protected] Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Psychology The workshop is funded by the Research Council of Norway as part of the project Consuming Children: Commercialisation and the Changing Construction of Childhood ( ) and Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), the Globalisation Program. Organizers: David Buckingham, Vebjørg Tingstad, Karin Ekberg, Norwegian Centre for Child Research, NO 7491 Trondheim, Norway, tel.: , [email protected]

7 Distributed texts Andrew Burn: POTTERLITERACY: from book to game and back again; literature, film, game and cross media literacy. Daniel Thomas Cook: Commodified enchantment: Children and consumer capitalism and Children of the Brand Gary Cross: The Cute and the Cool: Wondrous Innocence and Modern American Children s Culture. Chapter 5. Barbro Johansson: Fashion and style in a commercial and cultural borderland. Stig Hjarvard: From Bricks to Bytes: The Mediatization of a Global Toy Industry. In Bondebjerg and Golding (eds) European Culture and the Media. US: Intellect Books. Claudia Mitchell: Tween culture and digital technology in the age of AIDS Claudia Mitchell and Jacqueline Reid Walsh, In Sandra Weber and Shanly Dixon (eds) (in press). Girls on line, New York: St. Martin s Press. Mari Rysst: Barna kommer først : preferanser og utsatthet i nordiske barnefamilier. Ellen Seiter: Practicing at Home: Computers, Pianos and Cultural Capital. Rebekah Willett: Consumer Citizens Online: Structure, agency and gender in online participation. Randi Wærdahl: To Be or Not To Be: Commodified expressions of group affiliations and individuality.

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