David Buckingham
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Background
David Buckingham is an academic who specialises in examing the relationship between media and children. He is an advisor to two food/advertising/toy industry front groups.
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.[1]
Current activities
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Affiliations
- Member of Mediasmart expert group
- Member of the Advertising Education Forum, Academic Network[2]
In reply to a FOI request 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." [3]
Publications, Contact, Resources and Notes
Publications
- 2004 - Young People, Sex and the Media; The Facts of Life?,D. Buckingham and Sara Bragg, Palgrave Macmillan
- 2003 - Media Education: Literacy, Learning and Contemporary Culture,D. Buckingham 2003, Polity
- 2002 - Education, Entertainment and Learning in the Home,D. Buckingham and Margaret Scanlon 2002, Open University
- 2002 - Small Screens: Television for Children, D. Buckingham 2002, (editor)Leicester University
- 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
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
- ↑ University of London David Buckingham,accessed January 9 2009.
- ↑ Advertising Education Forum AEF Academic Network (AAN), accessed 1 August 2007.
- ↑ Email correspendnece between Matthew Grigson, Assistant Secretary, Institute of Education, University of London and Mary Craig, January 5-February 5 2009.
