David Buckingham

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David Buckingham is an academic who specialises in examining the relationship between media and children. Buckingham has been the professor of education at the Institute of Education at the University of London since April 1984. Within this he is also the 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. He is an advisor to two food/advertising/toy industry lobby groups.

Buckingham is a highly regarded author who has been the author, co-author or editor of 26 books and over 200 articles and book chapters. He has also taught and addressed conferences in more than 30 countries around the world. [1]

Biographical Information

History

Buckingham pioneered the development of research in media education in the UK, and has played a major role in the application of cultural studies approaches to analysing children's and young people's interactions with television and electronic media. He has directed more than 20 externally-funded research projects on these issues, funded by bodies such as the Economic and Social Research Council, the Arts and Humanities Research Board, the Broadcasting Standards Commission, the Arts Council of England, the European Commission and the Gulbenkian, Spencer and Nuffield Foundations. He has been a consultant for UNESCO, the United Nations, Ofcom and the Institute for Public Policy Research. He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Annenberg School for Communications, University of Pennsylvania, a Visiting Professor at New York University, and a Visiting Professor at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research.[2]

Work funded by the Economic and Social Research Centre

  • The Development of Television Literacy in Middle Childhood and Adolescence:

Start date: 01 October 1989 End date: 30 September 1991 [3]

  • Children's Media Culture : Education Entertainment and the Public Sphere:

Start date: 01 July 1996 End date: 30 June 1998 [4]

  • Changing Sites of Education: Educational Media and the Domestic Market:

Start date: 01 December 1999 End date: 30 November 2001 [5]

  • Learning Online: E-learning and the Domestic Market:

Start date: 01 March 2002 End date: 31 January 2003 [6]

  • Rethinking Youth cultures in the age of Global media:

Start date: 01 January 2009 End date: 30 April 2011 [7]

  • Developing Media Literacy: Towards a Model of Learning Progression:

Start date: 01 January 2009 End date: 31 January 2012 [8]

  • Developing Media Literacy: From Research to Practice

Start date: 01 February 2012 End date: 31 January 2013 [9]


Work funded by the broadcasting commission

  • Young People, Media and Personal Relationships: published in November 2003, research carried out between June 2001 and July 2003. [10]

Work funded by UNESCO

  • Media Education: A Global Strategy for Development:

A Policy Paper, Prepared for UNESCO Sector of Communication and Information, March 2001

Work Funded by Ofcom

  • Ofcom: In October 2004 they commissioned David Buckingham and Professor Sonia Livingstone to report on recent relevant academic and other publicly-available research into children’s and adults’ media literacy respectively. The outcome was a report on:

The Media Literacy of Children and Young People. [11]


Current activities

Buckingham was Chair of the panel assessing the impact of the commercial world on children as part of The Children's Plan of the Department of Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) report due in March 2009. Also on the panel are Sonia Livingstone and Brian Young.[12]

In January 2009 the Advertising Association's report entitled "Children's wellbeing in a commercial world" was published. This report was produced for the panel of academics appointed by the Department of Children, Schools and Families (DCFS) – chaired by Buckingham – to examine the impacts of the commercial world on children's wellbeing. The report concluded:

there was no evidence of a decline on children's overall wellbeing, nor that the net impact of the commercial world has been negative over the past fifteen years. Indeed it finds plenty of evidence that aspects of the commercial world enhance the wellbeing of children.[13]

Visiting Professor at the Centre for Innovation and Research on Childhood and Youth, Sussex University from 2014 to Present day. [14]

Affiliations

  • Member of Media Smart expert group: : In 2007, Media Smart released a major piece of independent research, which was conducted by a team that was lead by Buckingham. The research involved data collection via 350 teacher surveys online, 24 in-depth interviews with teachers via telephone, and three in-school observations over several weeks. [15]
  • Member of the Advertising Education Forum, Academic Network[16] In reply to a FOI inquiry in January 2009 regarding his membership of the AEF, the University of London replied:
"Is David Buckingham a member of the AEF academic network as is claimed on the AEF site? - Yes
What are the dates of his membership? Approximately 5 years
Is he paid in cash or kind? - Neither. He did a presentation in an expert debate organised by the AEF in 2004."[17]

Publications, Contact, Resources and Notes

Publications

  • 1994 - Cultural Studies goes to school: reading and teaching popular media, Taylor & Francis, 1994
  • 2000 After the Death of Childhood; Growing Up in the Age of Electronic Media, D. Buckingham 2000, Polity
  • 2000 - The Making of Citizens: Young People, News and Politics, D. Buckingham, Routledge
  • 2002 - Education, Entertainment and Learning in the Home,D. Buckingham and Margaret Scanlon 2002, Open University
  • 2003 - [co-author with Margaret Scanlon] Education, Entertainment and Learning in the Home Open University Press, 2003.
  • 2002 - Small Screens: Television for Children, D. Buckingham 2002, (editor)Leicester University
  • 2003 - Media Education: Literacy, Learning and Contemporary Culture,D. Buckingham 2003, Polity
  • 2004 - Young People, Sex and the Media; The Facts of Life?,D. Buckingham and Sara Bragg, Palgrave Macmillan
  • 2005 – The Media Literacy of children and young people: A review of the Research Literature, Ofcom, 2005
  • 2006 - Is there a digital generation, Digital Generations: Children, young people, and new media, 1-13, 2006.
  • 2007 - Beyond Technology: Children’s Learning in the Age of Digital Media Cambridge: Polity, 2007. Translated into Spanish.
  • 2007 - [co-author with Liesbeth de Block] Global Children, Global Media: Migration, Media and Childhood Palgrave, 2007, new edition 2010.
  • 2008 - Youth, Identity and Digital Media Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008.
  • 2009 - [co-editor/lead author] Video Cultures: Media Technology and Everyday Creativity Palgrave, 2009.
  • 2011 - The Material Child: Growing Up in Consumer Culture Cambridge: Polity, 2011. Translated into Spanish.
  • 2014 - Youth Cultures in the Age of Global Media, Palgrave, 2014.

Education

  • The Institute of Education - University of London : (Ph.D.) in Media education from 1983-1992
  • Central London Polytechnic: MA in Film Studies from 1978-1981
  • University of Cambridge: MA in English from 1972-1975 [18]


Contact

Address: London Knowledge Lab,Institute of Education, University of London, 23-29 Emerald Street, London, WC1N 3QS
Phone:+44 (0)20 7763 2180
Email: d.buckingham@ioe.ac.uk
Website:

Resources

Notes

  1. ↑ Profile Loughborough University, accessed 20 January 2015
  2. ↑ University of London David Buckingham,accessed January 9 2009.
  3. ↑ The Development of Television Literacy in Middle Childhood and Adolescence Economic and Social Research Council, accessed 20 January 2015
  4. ↑ Children’s Media Culture: Education Entertainment and the Public Sphere Economic and Social Research Council, accessed 20 January 2015
  5. ↑ Changing Sites of Education: Educational Media and the Domestic Market Economic and Social Research Council, accessed 20 January 2015
  6. ↑ Learning Online: E-learning and the Domestic Market Economic and Social Research Council, accessed 20 January 2015
  7. ↑ Rethinking Youth cultures in the age of Global Media Economic and Social Research Council, accessed 20 January 2015
  8. ↑ Developing Media Literacy: Towards a Model of Learning Progression Economic and Social Research Council, accessed 20 January 2015
  9. ↑ Developing Media Literacy: From Research to Practice Economic and Social Research Council, accessed 20 January 2015
  10. ↑ Young People, Media and Personal Relationships ASA, accessed 20 January 2015
  11. ↑ The Media Literacy of Children and Young People stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk, accessed 20 January 2015
  12. ↑ Reply to FOI request from DCSF to Kerri Park, received 26 February 2009
  13. ↑ Advertising Association report explodes the myth of toxic childhood, News Release, Advertising Association, 26 Jan 2009, accessed March 12 2009
  14. ↑ David Buckingham Linkedin Profile, accessed 20 January 2015
  15. ↑ Our Research Media Smart, accessed 20 January 2014
  16. ↑ Advertising Education Forum AEF Academic Network (AAN), accessed 1 August 2007.
  17. ↑ Email correspondence between Matthew Grigson, Assistant Secretary, Institute of Education, University of London and Mary Craig, January 5–February 5 2009.
  18. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named ”About”
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