TY - JOUR
T1 - Engaging, critical, entertaining: Transforming public service television for children in Denmark
AU - Christensen, Christa Lykke
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This article offers a critical periodization of the children’s programming offered by Denmark’s primary public broadcaster, Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR). Through a careful analysis of content produced by DR and its youth section since 1951, the article argues that four distinct periods of children’s television can be identified, leading up to today’s competitive period. The article shows how Danish public service children’s TV has played an important role in the modernization of the view of children, serving as an experimental platform for putting the perspective of active and independent children on the agenda. The argument is that this agenda has been contested by the increased demands for entertaining content due to increased competition among TV channels and due to obeying demands for ever more content to complete programming schedules.
AB - This article offers a critical periodization of the children’s programming offered by Denmark’s primary public broadcaster, Danish Broadcasting Corporation (DR). Through a careful analysis of content produced by DR and its youth section since 1951, the article argues that four distinct periods of children’s television can be identified, leading up to today’s competitive period. The article shows how Danish public service children’s TV has played an important role in the modernization of the view of children, serving as an experimental platform for putting the perspective of active and independent children on the agenda. The argument is that this agenda has been contested by the increased demands for entertaining content due to increased competition among TV channels and due to obeying demands for ever more content to complete programming schedules.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Children's television
KW - Public service broadcasting
KW - Representation of children and childhood
U2 - 10.1386/iscc.4.3.271_1
DO - 10.1386/iscc.4.3.271_1
M3 - Journal article
VL - 4
SP - 271
EP - 287
JO - Interactions (Bristol)
JF - Interactions (Bristol)
SN - 1757-2681
IS - 3
M1 - 6
ER -