As video games become a ubiquitous part of today's culture internationally, as educators and parents we need to turn our attention to how video games are being understood and used in informal and formal settings. Serious games have developed as a genre of video games marketed for educating youth about a range of world issues. At face value this…

Deconstructs the "kiddie porn" media frame used by the industry and mainstream media to characterize Klein's ad campaign. Extends scholarship on the construction of youth in the media, showing how the kiddie-porn frame produces and reproduces common-sense beliefs about the nature of youth. Suggests a metadiscourse encompassing the…

Contributes to the building of journalism and news-reporting theory and scholarship on news reception. Finds a ubiquitous use of examples presented in media coverage confirming the angle from which a story has been presented. Finds that exemplars are often presented along with vague generalizations, which leave the viewer little chance of judging…