Children's TV and Digital Media in the Arab World : Childhood, Screen Culture and Education (eds)
- Submitting institution
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King's College London
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 103845621
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- IB Tauris, London/New York
- ISBN
- 9781784535056
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This jointly edited volume by Naomi Sakr (University of Westminster) and Jeanette Steemers (KCL) constitutes work that resulted from research originally undertaken as part of a three-year AHRC project, “Orientations in the Development of Pan-Arab Television for Children” (AH/J004545/1), where Steemers was co-investigator. Steemers’ contribution to the book is as a specialist on media industries/policy for children. Sakr and Steemers shared editing responsibilities, including the curation of chapters, several of which can be traced back to presentations at a symposium on Arab television for children organised by both at the University of Westminster in May 2013. Steemers’ demonstrable contribution includes lead authorship of the introduction (Ch. 1), which sets out the parameters of the volume, including regulatory, political, demographic, historical and economic contexts, as well as policy responses, production trends and issues of representation around children’s screen media in the Arab world. Steemers contributed to two further chapters. She co-authored and researched Chapter 2 on “Arab and Western Perspectives on Childhood and Children’s Media Provision” with Feryal Awan. Her contribution, drawing on original findings from the AHRC project, includes analysis of different constructions of childhood in Arab and Western countries, and how these are reflected in debates about media provision and regulation, encompassing negative regulation against harmless effects and positive regulation in favour of positive outcomes. This chapter is essential because it sets out why conceptions of childhood matter, thereby helping us to understand why media are regulated and media texts crafted in certain ways. Steemers also co-authored and co-researched Chapter 5 ‘Rebranding Al-Jazeera Children’s Channel: The Qatarisation Factor’ exploring the political and commercial considerations behind the rebranding of children’s channel JCC. The research draws on Sakr and Steemers’ six in-depth off-the-record interviews with London-based consultants/companies who took part in the rebranding exercises.
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- Non-English
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