The making of the child TV viewer: A poststructuralist agenda for conducting the history of research on mass media and children
- 1 June 1991
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Howard Journal of Communications
- Vol. 3 (1-2) , 14-35
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10646179109359735
Abstract
Communications research claims to have an interdisciplinary history and perspective, yet it continues to operate within a predominantly empirical tradition. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault, this article outlines an agenda for the deconstruction of the discourse on media and youth. It is argued that any conceptualization of the child in late capitalist media and cultural environments should begin from an acritical historical perspective on the discursive and institutional processes of knowledge production.Keywords
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