Children's Culture can be defined in a great number of ways and suffers from being an incredibly broad category. In recent times the study of children's cultural artifacts, children's media and literature and the myths and discourses spun around the notion of childhood have all come under scrutiny within academia, primarily in cultural studies, media studies and literature departments. A cultural artifact is an man-made object which gives information about the culture of its creator and users. ... // Basic characteristics There is some debate as to what constitutes childrens literature. ... For the computer game, see Myth (computer game). ... Discourse is a term used in semantics as in discourse analysis, but it also refers to a social conception of discourse, often linked with the work of French philosopher Michel Foucault (1926-1984) and Jürgen Habermas The Theory of Communicative Action (1985). ... A male Caucasian toddler child A child (plural: children) is a young human. ... Plato is credited with the inception of academia: the body of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations. ... Cultural studies combines sociology, social theory, literary theory, film/video studies, cultural anthropology and art history/criticism to study cultural phenomena in industrial societies. ... Media studies is an area of scholarly inquiry approached from both humanities and social science perspectives that considers the nature and effects of mass media upon individuals and society, as well as analysing actual media content and representations. ... Literature is literally acquaintance with letters as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary (from the Latin littera meaning an individual written character (letter)). The term has generally come to identify a collection of texts, which in Western culture are mainly prose, both fiction and non-fiction...

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Children's street culture

Main article: Children's street culture Childrens street culture refers to the cumulative culture of rhymes, songs, jokes, taboos, games, folklore, and places (e. ...

Further reading

• The Children's Culture Reader (1998), edited by Henry Jenkins, collects a diverse range of approaches and insights into synchronic and diachronic formulations of childhood.

1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Henry Jenkins (born June 4, 1958 in Atlanta, Georgia) American Scholar, currently Ann Fetter Friedlaender Professor of Humanities and Director of MIT Comparative Media Studies. ... Synchronic linguistics deals with a language at a specific point in time; it is opposed to diachronic linguistics (also called historical linguistics), which deals with how languages change over time. ... Diachronic study is the study of the development of a language over a period of time. ... A male Caucasian toddler child A child (plural: children) is a young human. ...

External links

• Henry Jenkins – Children's Culture - Jenkins' MIT homepage has a section devoted to children's culture.