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Journal of Children and Media
Volume 3(3), 2009

 
CONTENTS
 
Lauricella, Alexis R., Barr, Rachel F., Calvert, Sandra L. Emerging computer skills: Influences of young children's executive functioning abilities and parental scaffolding techniques in the US. 217-233
 
  The purpose of this study was to examine how 4-year-old children learn to use computers, with specific interest in what cognitive factors and parental scaffolding practices are associated with control of the computer via the computer mouse interface 
 
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children
computer
technologies
family
narrative
cognition
competence
 
 
Riggs, Damien W., King, Daniel, Delfabbro, Paul H., and Augoustinos, Martha 'Children Out of Place': Representations of foster care in the Australian news media. 234-248
 
  The provision of foster care in Australia has a long and contested history 
 
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news
Pacific Rim
memory
children
family
 
 
Skaar, Havard Branded selves: How children in Norway relate to marketing on a social network site. 249-267
 
  Theories of branding and self presentation inform an ethnographic study of how a group of classmates aged 11-12 construct identities by use of the brands and branded resources made available to them on the social network site and elsewhere on the internet 
 
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interpersonal
social structure
computer
technologies
 
 
Caronia, Letizia Coviewing in an Italian classroom: Language, interaction, and making sense of television. 267-285
 
  The article presents data of a quasiexperimental research on media education practices in Italian primary and preprimary schools 
 
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education
cognition
Europe
children
competence
television
 
 
Bocking, Saskia, and Bocking, Tabea Parental mediation of television: Test of a German-speaking scale and findings on the impact of parental attitudes, sociodemographic and family factors in German-speaking Switzerland. 286-302
 
  In the present study a German-speaking scale for measuring parental mediation of television is tested and various factors influencing television mediation are investigated 
 
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family
television
Europe
children