“Missed Opportunity”: The Oversight of Canadian Children’s Media
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Date
2016
Authors
Coulter, Natalie
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Canadian Journal of Communication
Abstract
Canadian communication studies have largely ignored Canadian children’s media as a field of study. The children’s cultural industries in Canada are rich and diverse. This article argues that these cultural industries need to be constitutively integrated into scholarship on the Canadian mediascape, as does the presence of young people as active participants in Canadian media culture. Focusing primarily on English-language television to illustrate this point, the article first outlines the long history of children’s media production in Canada, then discusses reasons why such scholarship is missing from the field, and concludes by outlining the impacts of this oversight.
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Broadcasting, Television, Children, Youth, Mass media