David Buckingham is Professor of Education at the Institute of Education,

London University, where he directs the Centre for the Study of Children, Youth
and Media (www.childrenyouthandmediacentre.co.uk). His research focuses on
children and young people’s interactions with electronic media, and on media
education. He has recently completed research projects on young people’s
engagement with video games; informal learning and creativity in media
education; the uses of digital media by migrant/refugee children across Europe;
and young people’s responses to sexual content in the media. He is currently
working on two major research projects, about the everyday use of video
camcorders, and about the role of the internet in young people’s civic
participation.

Professor Buckingham taught and lectured in more than 25 countries around the
world, and his work has been published in over 15 languages. His key
publications include Children Talking Television (Falmer 1993), Moving Images
(Manchester UP 1996), The Making of Citizens (Routledge 2000), After the
Death of Childhood (Polity 2000) and Media Education (Polity 2003). His most
recent books include Beyond Technology: Children’s Learning in the Age of
Digital Culture (Polity, 2007); Global Children, Global Media; Migration, Media
and Childhood (with Liesbeth de Block, Palgrave, 2007); and Youth, Identity and
Digital Media (editor, MIT Press, 2008). He has also conducted consultancy for a
range of organisations including the MacArthur Foundation, the BBC, Ofcom, the
DCSF (for the Byron Review on Children and New Technologies), The Institute
for Public Policy Research, the European Commission, UNESCO and the United
Nations.