MEDIA: New Questions, New Insights, New Approaches: Contributions to the Research Forum at the World Summit on Media For Children and Youth 2010

In cooperation with the hosts of the World Summit on Media for Children and Youth in 2010, Karlstad, Sweden, The International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media organised a Research Forum with different sessions in the summit programme. The aim was to provide a space for an exchange of knowledge and a dialogue between the different groups of delegates at the summit and for researchers to reach out to interested parties in and outside the research community. Under the overriding theme of the introductory Plenary Session "New Questions, New Insights, New Approaches", The Clearinghouse Research Forum had four more sessions with panels on different themes:

• Media Ethics and Social Responsibility 
• Children, Media, Consumption and Health 
• Communication for Social Change 
• Media Literacy and Education 

The current Yearbook is based on the twenty-five presentations given by a range of the most outstanding scholars from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and North America. For this book, they reworked their contributions to provide slightly extended articles. 

Further Information:

• CRIN's theme page on children and the media 
• CRIN report on children, discrimination and the media 
• CRIN's Media Toolkit which includes guidelines for journalists reporting on children in the media and on the use of images of children in the media