| Professor David Buckingham |
David Buckingham is Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, London University, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media. His research focuses on children's and young people's interactions with electronic media, and on media education. He has recently completed research projects on everyday uses of video production technology; the uses of digital media by migrant/refugee children across Europe; and young people’s responses to sexual content in the media. He is currently working on two major projects, one on the role of the internet in promoting young people’s civic participation, and the other on learning and progression in media education.Professor Buckingham has acted as a consultant for UNESCO, the United Nations, the BBC and Ofcom (the UK media regulator). He has directed more than 20 externally-funded research projects, funded by bodies such as the Economic and Social Research Council, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Broadcasting Standards Commission, the Arts Council of England, the European Commission and the Gulbenkian, Spencer and Nuffield Foundations. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and New York University, and is currently a Visiting Professor at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, where he is co-directing a major funded project on children and consumer culture. He contributed to the UK Government’s Byron Review on children and new technologies, and is currently leading an independent assessment of the impact of the commercial world on children’s wellbeing for the DCSF and DCMS. Professor Buckingham is the author, co-author or editor of 22 books, and over 180 articles and book chapters. His key publications include Children Talking Television (Falmer, 1993), Moving Images (Manchester University Press 1996), The Making of Citizens (Routledge, 2000), After the Death of Childhood (Polity, 2000), Media Education (Polity, 2003) and Young People, Sex and the Media (with Sara Bragg, Palgrave, 2004). His work has been translated into fifteen languages, and he has taught and addressed conferences in more than 25 countries around the world. His most recent books include Beyond Technology: Children’s Learning in the Age of Digital Media (Polity), Global Children, Global Media: Childhood, Media and Migration (co-authored with Liesbeth de Block, Palgrave), and Young People, Identity and Digital Media (editor, MIT Press). His work has been disseminated in a wide range of print and broadcast media, nationally and internationally. |