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An illuminating study of the complex relationship between children and media in the digital age Now, as never before, young people are surrounded by media—thanks to the sophistication and portability of the technology that puts it literally in the palms of their hands. Drawing on data and empirical research that cross many fields and continents, authors Valkenburg and Piotrowski examine the role of media in the lives of children from birth through adolescence, addressing the complex issues of how media affect the young and what adults can do to encourage responsible use in an age of selfies, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. This important study looks at both the sunny and the dark side of media use by today's youth, including why and how their preferences change throughout childhood, whether digital gaming is harmful or helpful, the effects of placing tablets and smartphones in the hands of toddlers, the susceptibility of young people to online advertising, the legitimacy of parental concerns about media multitasking, and more

Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Media and Genre -- 1 Genre and Aesthetics -- 2 Genre and Culture -- Genre and Structure -- Genre and Discourse -- Genre and Mediality -- 3 Genres in Media and Cultural Theory -- 4 Transmedial and Transnational Perspectives -- 5 Re-examining Genres in Film Studies -- References -- Part I: Genres in Media and Cultural Theory -- Genre in Action: The Impossibility and Value of Genre Analysis -- 1 Critical Legacies: Genre and Authorship -- 2 Action as Genre, Genres and Mode: Managing Genre's Impossibility -- 3 Genre: Histories and Chronologies -- 4 Action and Models of Television Genre -- 5 Games, Gameplay and Spaces of Action/Adventure -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Trespass: Genre, Author, and Play in the Discourse of Media Aesthetics -- 1 State of Theory: Genre Studies and Auteurism -- 2 Trespass and the Last Adventure -- 3 Blackness (Re)Assigned -- 4 Genre Politics as Media Aesthetics of Formalization -- 5 Conclusion: The Genius of the Genre System -- References -- Staging Revolutions: Hamilton. An American Musical, Genre Affordances, and the Political Dynamics of Cultural Circulation -- 1 The Genre Politics of Hamilton -- 2 The Event of Hamilton, Historiographic Metatheatre and the Question of Social Efficacy -- 3 Epilogue -- References -- Part II: Transmedial and Transnational Perspectives -- A New Genre Arena? Questions of Genre in the Digital Age of Promotional Media -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Genre and Promotional Media -- 3 Working Genre in the Digital Age: Three Cases -- The Making of a World -- Tweeting about Family -- Teasing the Familiar -- 4 Conclusion -- References -- Political Genres of Online Animation: Genre Theory, Animation Studies, and Digital Media -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Animation and Genre -- 3 Animation and Digital Media.

This article aims to theorize the complex relationship between the sublimity of Lithuanian national identity and its everyday happenings by playing with national significations and resignifications extracted from a wide array of texts written in the nineteenth century and in the 90s of the twentieth century. Mass media, pop culture and the everyday are understood as spaces of a new nationness in practice demonstrating how the national imaginary is constructed and deconstructed through the circulation of televisual and print media images. Drawing on the ideas of Benedict Anderson about imagined communities created by the press, the article touches upon the various kinds of media producing, in Anderson's words, a "league of anonymous equals." How does media help the Lithuanian people think the nation? How do the people negotiate their desire for belongings and solidarities through their everyday acts and experiences of national imaginary?

This landmark work centers on media management and economics within a diverse, international, historical and constantly changing environment. The chapters herein reflect the current state of research and present directions for future study. Developed at the 2012 Research Symposium in conjunction with the annual convention of the Broadcast Education Association, it represents the most current theory and research in the area