Popular Culture, New Media and Digital Literacy in Early Childhood

Name: Popular Culture, New Media and Digital Literacy in Early Childhood
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Popular Culture, New Media and Digital Literacy in Early ChildhoodAuthor(s): Jackie Marsh\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415335737, 978-0415335737\nSynopsis\nThis book offers a range of perspectives on children's multimodal experiences, providing a ground-breaking account of the ways in which children engage with popular culture, media and digital literacy practices from their earliest years. Many young children have extensive experience of film, television, printed media, computer games, mobile phones and the Internet from birth, yet their reaction to media texts is rarely acknowledged in the national curricula of any country.\n\nThis seminal text focuses on children from birth to eight years, addressing issues such as:\n\n* media and identity construction\n* media literacy practices in the home\n* the changing nature of literacy in technologically advanced societies\n* The place of popular and media texts in.