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dc.contributor.author | Grixti, Joe | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-07-20T07:51:54Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2017-07-20T07:51:54Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2000 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Grixti, J. (2000). 'Not suitable for children' : young Maltese children's perceptions of adulthood and adult-rated TV programmes. Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies, 5(1), 119-140 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.issn | 1024-5375 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/20513 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This paper joins the educational debate on the role of the media in the lives and socialisation of young people by considering how young children' s experiences of watching television form an integral part of their emerging sense of identity. The focus is on how children talk about and perceive 'adult-rated' material on television, and how this relates to their understanding of how 'adulthood' is distinguished from 'childhood. ' It contends that younger children' s understanding of the 'adult' is often pieced together from disjointed and commodified fragments, and that this fragmentation also informs children's performative attempts to distance themselves from the 'childish' in order to build their own 'adult' subjectivities. The evidence is drawn mainly from a series of thirty focus-group interviews with 164 children aged between five and ten, and coming from different socio-economic backgrounds in the Mediterranean island state of Malta. The interviews were conducted in 1998 and 1999, and formed part of a larger project which also included a comparable number of interviews with older children (aged 11 to 14) as well as with parents and teachers. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | University of Malta. Faculty of Education | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Television and children -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.subject | Mass media and children -- Malta | en_GB |
dc.title | 'Not suitable for children' : young Maltese children's perceptions of adulthood and adult-rated TV programmes | en_GB |
dc.type | article | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder. | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | peer-reviewed | en_GB |
dc.publication.title | Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies | en_GB |
Appears in Collections: | MJES, Volume 5, No. 1 (2000) MJES, Volume 5, No. 1 (2000) |
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