M M Davies
Biographic Data
| ID | 4719 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M M Davies |
| GIVEN NAMES | M M |
| FAMILY NAME | Davies |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIES M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ulster |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5808-9966 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
‘Is it any good? Why does it matter?’ Issues of Quality and Value in Children's Television
This article draws on material from the BFI's list of 100 game-changing TV shows, drawn up to mark the BBC's centenary in 2022. Twelve of the BFI's list are children's shows, encompassing a wide range of genres from drama ( Grange Hill) to preschool ( Teletubbies) to news and documentary ( Newsround). Campaigns on behalf of children's media, such as the Children's Media Foundation's collection of essays, Our Children's Future: Does Public Service…
Bitesizes, battlegrounds and bedtimes
This Provocations article reviews some key moments in the history of Children's BBC, now, since 2019, combined with Education. It refers to important and occasionally controversial programmes, such as Grange Hill, Newsround and Horrible Histories and draws on recent interviews with former head of Children's, Anna Home, current head of Children's In-house Production, Helen Bullough, and former head of Children's Digital, and Director of the campai…
Star Trek and American Television
At the heart of one of the most successful transmedia franchises of all time, Star Trek , lies an initially unsuccessful 1960s television production, Star Trek: The Original Series . In Star Trek and American Television , Pearson and Messenger Davies, take their cue from the words of the program’s first captain, William Shatner, in an interview with the authors: "It’s a television show." In focusing on Star Trek as a television show, the authors …
Teaching CAM
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMáire Messenger DaviesMàire Messenger Davies, Ph.D., is Professor of Media Studies and Director of the Centre for Media Research at the University of Ulster. A former journalist with degrees in English Literature (B.A., Trinity College Dublin) and Psychology (Ph.D., University of East London), she has taught in universities on both sides of the Atlantic. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and …
Heirlooms in the Living Room
Journalism and the Question of Citizenship
Classical political theory accorded representation to the citizen through the state. The modem, economic, addendum was that the state promised a minimal standard of living. The postmodem, cultural, guarantee is access to the technologies of communication. In essence, then, the last two hundred years have produced three zones of citizenship, with partially overlapping but nevertheless distinct historicities. These zones of citizenship are the poli…
Fair and Balanced Reporting
A summary of issues that need to be considered when reporting issues of conflict and political controversy to children and young people, with special reference to Northern Ireland. First presented in an earlier form at the 5th World Summit on Children and Media, Johannesburg, South Africa, April 2005
Production Studies
Crazyspace
Journal Article ‘Crazyspace’: the politics of children's screen drama Get access Máire Messenger Davies Máire Messenger Davies Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 46, Issue 3, Autumn 2005, Pages 389–399, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/46.3.389 Published: 01 October 2005
Mickey and Mr. Gumpy
This article reviews aspects of children's global culture from a number of perspectives: political/economic, including children's cultural 'rights' as asserted in the International Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989); psychological, including evolutionary psychology and theories of mind studies; and empirical media studies, incorporating data based on 6-to 13-year-old children's own discussions. It suggests that psychologically functiona…
Opinion, Dialogue, Review
While sociologists of children and media have helped show that children are indeed active and shrewd users of television there is still a need to challenge the notion held particularly in much discourse about children and television that fantasy and make-believe are self-evidently appropriate genres for them. This is generally explained away by the fact that children are different from adults as they are more imaginative. We show the nature and c…
Les cultes médiatiques
X Files, Friends, Jimmy Hendrix ou Les Tontons flingueurs... le culte a envahi tous les domaines, du cinéma à la musique, du livre à la télévision. Mais le culte n'est pas simplement une expression passe-partout : il nous invite aussi à analyser de nouveaux modes de rapport aux œuvres. Quelle signification accorder à ce terme issu du champ religieux et appliqué aux publics des grands médias contemporains ? Quelle représentation des publics appara…
It Helps People Make their Decisions
Drawing on qualitative data from a study carried out with over 1300 children aged between 5 and 13, in England and Wales, the article analyses children's discourse about television programmes. The article addresses the persistent tendency of this discourse to express socially responsible and public service values in evaluating programmes. This finding is explained both in terms of children's ability to adapt to the requirements of the public cons…
A Note in Defence of Käthe Von Sellenthin
Mickey and Mr. Gumpy
This article reviews aspects of children's global culture from a number of perspectives: political/economic, including children's cultural 'rights' as asserted in the International Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989); psychological, including evolutionary psychology and theories of mind studies; and empirical media studies, incorporating data based on 6-to 13-year-old children's own discussions. It suggests that psychologically functiona…
Opinion, Dialogue, Review
While sociologists of children and media have helped show that children are indeed active and shrewd users of television there is still a need to challenge the notion held particularly in much discourse about children and television that fantasy and make-believe are self-evidently appropriate genres for them. This is generally explained away by the fact that children are different from adults as they are more imaginative. We show the nature and c…
Production Studies
A Note in Defence of Käthe Von Sellenthin
It Helps People Make their Decisions
Drawing on qualitative data from a study carried out with over 1300 children aged between 5 and 13, in England and Wales, the article analyses children's discourse about television programmes. The article addresses the persistent tendency of this discourse to express socially responsible and public service values in evaluating programmes. This finding is explained both in terms of children's ability to adapt to the requirements of the public cons…
Les cultes médiatiques
X Files, Friends, Jimmy Hendrix ou Les Tontons flingueurs... le culte a envahi tous les domaines, du cinéma à la musique, du livre à la télévision. Mais le culte n'est pas simplement une expression passe-partout : il nous invite aussi à analyser de nouveaux modes de rapport aux œuvres. Quelle signification accorder à ce terme issu du champ religieux et appliqué aux publics des grands médias contemporains ? Quelle représentation des publics appara…
Opinion, Dialogue, Review
While sociologists of children and media have helped show that children are indeed active and shrewd users of television there is still a need to challenge the notion held particularly in much discourse about children and television that fantasy and make-believe are self-evidently appropriate genres for them. This is generally explained away by the fact that children are different from adults as they are more imaginative. We show the nature and c…
Mickey and Mr. Gumpy
This article reviews aspects of children's global culture from a number of perspectives: political/economic, including children's cultural 'rights' as asserted in the International Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989); psychological, including evolutionary psychology and theories of mind studies; and empirical media studies, incorporating data based on 6-to 13-year-old children's own discussions. It suggests that psychologically functiona…
Crazyspace
Journal Article ‘Crazyspace’: the politics of children's screen drama Get access Máire Messenger Davies Máire Messenger Davies Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 46, Issue 3, Autumn 2005, Pages 389–399, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/46.3.389 Published: 01 October 2005
Production Studies
Fair and Balanced Reporting
A summary of issues that need to be considered when reporting issues of conflict and political controversy to children and young people, with special reference to Northern Ireland. First presented in an earlier form at the 5th World Summit on Children and Media, Johannesburg, South Africa, April 2005
Journalism and the Question of Citizenship
Classical political theory accorded representation to the citizen through the state. The modem, economic, addendum was that the state promised a minimal standard of living. The postmodem, cultural, guarantee is access to the technologies of communication. In essence, then, the last two hundred years have produced three zones of citizenship, with partially overlapping but nevertheless distinct historicities. These zones of citizenship are the poli…
Heirlooms in the Living Room
Star Trek and American Television
At the heart of one of the most successful transmedia franchises of all time, Star Trek , lies an initially unsuccessful 1960s television production, Star Trek: The Original Series . In Star Trek and American Television , Pearson and Messenger Davies, take their cue from the words of the program’s first captain, William Shatner, in an interview with the authors: "It’s a television show." In focusing on Star Trek as a television show, the authors …
Teaching CAM
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMáire Messenger DaviesMàire Messenger Davies, Ph.D., is Professor of Media Studies and Director of the Centre for Media Research at the University of Ulster. A former journalist with degrees in English Literature (B.A., Trinity College Dublin) and Psychology (Ph.D., University of East London), she has taught in universities on both sides of the Atlantic. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and …
Bitesizes, battlegrounds and bedtimes
This Provocations article reviews some key moments in the history of Children's BBC, now, since 2019, combined with Education. It refers to important and occasionally controversial programmes, such as Grange Hill, Newsround and Horrible Histories and draws on recent interviews with former head of Children's, Anna Home, current head of Children's In-house Production, Helen Bullough, and former head of Children's Digital, and Director of the campai…
‘Is it any good? Why does it matter?’ Issues of Quality and Value in Children's Television
This article draws on material from the BFI's list of 100 game-changing TV shows, drawn up to mark the BBC's centenary in 2022. Twelve of the BFI's list are children's shows, encompassing a wide range of genres from drama ( Grange Hill) to preschool ( Teletubbies) to news and documentary ( Newsround). Campaigns on behalf of children's media, such as the Children's Media Foundation's collection of essays, Our Children's Future: Does Public Service…
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