David Buckingham

Right from the origins of cinema, countless films and television dramas have offered sensational and seductive representations of young people's lives. Youth is typically associated with energy, idealism and physical beauty, but it is often represented as both troubled and troubling. These representations are almost always created by adults, implicitly reflecting an adult perspective on how young people 'come of...

Beyond Technology offers a challenging new analysis of learning, young people and digital media. Disputing both utopian fantasies about the transformation of education and exaggerated fears about the corruption of childhood innocence, it provides a level-headed analysis of the impact of these new media on learning, drawing on a wide range of critical research. Buckingham argues that there is now...

Are we really living in a post-truth age? Have ideas like information, knowledge, and truth passed their sell-by date? Is 'information disorder' leading to the terminal decline of democracy? Or will fact-checkers, media regulators, and educators come to the rescue? The End of Information cuts through the exaggerated claims that have been made about these issues. Interrogating the key terms...

Beyond Technology offers a challenging new analysis of learning, young people, and digital media. Disputing both utopian fantasies about the transformation of education and exaggerated fears about the corruption of childhood innocence, it provides a level-headed analysis of the impact of these new media on learning, drawing on a wide range of critical research. Buckingham argues that there is now...