Profile

Professor Buckingham is Director of the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media, which is based at the London Knowledge Lab, part of the Institute of Education, University of London. Full details of the Centre’s activities can be found at: www.ccsonline,org.uk/mediacentre.

Professor Buckingham’s specific area of expertise is in the field of media literacy projects and children and media. He has directed a number of research projects on these issues, and is the author, co-author or editor of 18 books and more than 150 published articles. He has acted as a consultant for, amongst others, Ofcom, The United Nations, UNESCO, BBC Education and Channel Four Television. He is a member of Ofcom’s Media Literacy Research Forum and the Consultative Council of the British Board of Film Classification. He has lectured in more than 25 countries worldwide.

d.buckingham@ioe.ac.uk

Relevant Publications

Young People, Sex and the Media (with Sara Bragg) Palgrave MacMillan, 2004

Media Education: Literacy, Learning and Contemporary Culture (Polity, 2003)

Education, Entertainment and Learning in the Home (with Margaret Scanlon) Open University Press, 2003

After the Death of Childhood: Growing Up in the Age of Electronic Media
(Polity, 2000)

Moving Images: Understanding Children’s Emotional Responses to Television (Manchester University Press, 1996)

Children Talking Television: The Making of Television Literacy (Falmer, 1993)

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