The Child Audience: Impressionability, Pedagogy, and Popular Culture
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ThesisThesis type
Doctor of PhilosophyAuthor/s
Shafigh, ZahraAbstract
In this thesis, I will explore the cultural constructs of childhood and adolescence and how they have
been translated in scholarly and cultural understandings of the child and young audience. Beginning
with cultural conceptions and assumptions about the child’s mind and learning, ...
See moreIn this thesis, I will explore the cultural constructs of childhood and adolescence and how they have been translated in scholarly and cultural understandings of the child and young audience. Beginning with cultural conceptions and assumptions about the child’s mind and learning, I will use historical, discursive and textual analysis to examine how recent discourses on the child and teenage or young adult audience have drawn on older ideas about impressionability and education, and how these same ideas have permeated the cultural production of children and young people’s popular culture and fed into newer media forms and responses to the creative practices of young online participants.
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See moreIn this thesis, I will explore the cultural constructs of childhood and adolescence and how they have been translated in scholarly and cultural understandings of the child and young audience. Beginning with cultural conceptions and assumptions about the child’s mind and learning, I will use historical, discursive and textual analysis to examine how recent discourses on the child and teenage or young adult audience have drawn on older ideas about impressionability and education, and how these same ideas have permeated the cultural production of children and young people’s popular culture and fed into newer media forms and responses to the creative practices of young online participants.
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Date
2024Rights statement
The author retains copyright of this thesis. It may only be used for the purposes of research and study. It must not be used for any other purposes and may not be transmitted or shared with others without prior permission.Faculty/School
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, School of HumanitiesDepartment, Discipline or Centre
Department of Gender and Cultural StudiesAwarding institution
The University of SydneyShare