Third international
conference on multidisciplinary perspectives on child and teen
consumption.
24-25 April 2008
Norwegian Centre for Child
Research
NTNU
Trondheim, Norway
This conference is the third
in an ongoing series establishing a dialogue between specialists
from a variety of academic disciplines focusing on young consumers
in contemporary society. Following previous conferences at the
European Center for Children’s Products, University of Poitiers,
France, and the Copenhagen Business School, this third conference
will be held at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research, one of the
leading international centers in Childhood Studies. During the two
days,research will be presented on children’s and young people’s
position in consumer society, how children develop their consumer
competences, and consumer socialization in general. The emphasis is
on creating a multi-disciplinary discussion uniting ideas from
historical, psychological, sociological, managerial and other social
science perspectives.
Keynote speakers at the
conference will include Professor Janet Wasko from University of
Oregon, Professor Gary Cross from The Pennsylvania State University,
Professor Ellen Seiter from University of California and researcher
I Ragnhild Brusdal from the National Institute for Consumer Research
of Norway.
We welcome proposals for
single papers and thematic panels (featuring three or four papers on
a common theme). The conference language will be English. Potential
topics might include:
• Children’s and young
people’s consumption practices
• Children’s roles in the
consumer decision-making process
• The history of children’s
consumer culture
• Media, consumption and youth
culture
• Consumer culture and
childhood identities
• Children and advertising
• Consumer socialization
• Media and consumer
literacies
• Ethics and children’s
consumption
• The globalization of
children’s culture and youth culture
• Marketing practices,
rhetorics and appeals
• Theories of consumer culture
• The role of new media in
consumer socialization
• Public policy and media
regulation
• Research methods to
investigate child and teen consumption
January 10, 2008:
Notification to the authors regarding acceptance, based on double
blind review.
April 1, 2008:
Submission of full paper.
April 24 - 25, 2008:
The conference will be held at the Britannia Hotel, Trondheim.
Participants will be welcomed
at a reception on the evening of April 23rd.
