The 2024 edition of the Child and Teen Consumption Conference took place in Toronto (Canada) and was hosted by York University and Toronto Metropolitan University from October 16-18, 2024.
The theme of the 11th Child and Teen Consumption Conference was Playing with Borders. The borders and boundaries of young people’s cultural worlds are messy and in flux, especially in the spaces of consumer culture, digital culture and media culture. From the borders between the analog and the digital, the authentic and the branded, the global and the local, play and labour to, food and fun, young people contest, resist, negotiate, push and play with the boundaries in the between. Research presented at this conference interrogated the concepts and definitions of children’s and teen’s “play”, and how young people themselves “play” in mediated and digitized spaces.
About the Child and Teen Consumption Community
The Child and Teen (CTC) community is comprised of academics and practitioners from across the world motivated by the development of interdisciplinary and innovative research about children and young people, in order to understand their role in society with regard to consumption.
Scholars of the CTC community are from many and varied disciplines who share the main objective of advancing research and increasing our knowledge about child and teen consumption issues.
You can learn more about the CTC Community here.
