David Buckingham Profile Page
Profile
| Name: | Professor David Buckingham |
| About: | David Buckingham is Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, where he directs the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth and Media. He currently teaches on the MA programme in Media and Communications, and supervises fourteen doctoral students. He has successfully supervised ten doctoral theses in the past eight years. Professor Buckingham pioneered the development of classroom-based research in media education in the UK, and played a major role in the application of cultural studies approaches to analysing children's and young people's interactions with electronic media. He has directed numerous 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 is the author, co-author or editor of eighteen books, including Children Talking Television (1993), Moving Images (1996), The Making of Citizens (2000) and After the Death of Childhood (2000) and Media Education (2003). His work has been translated into fifteen languages. Professor Buckingham 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. He has taught and addressed conferences in more than 25 countries around the world. |
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LKL News
LKL Events
| List of events at the London Knowledge Lab with David Buckingham: | |
| Date | Title |
| Tuesday, 10 November 2009 | Rethinking Youth Cultures in the Age of Global Media |
| Wednesday, 30 January 2008 | Skate perception: self-representation, identity and visual style in a youth subculture |
| Friday, 09 November 2007 | Computer Game Analysis, Film Theory and the Future of Screen Studies |
| Friday, 05 October 2007 | What Good is E-Learning? |
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LKL Research
| David Buckingham is participating in the following LKL research projects: | |
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| Civicweb | |
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