The theme of the 11th Child and Teen Consumption Conference at York University and Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto, (October 16-18 2024) is Playing with Borders. The borders and boundaries of young peoples 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. We invite research and approaches that interrogate the concepts and definition of childrens and teens “play”, and how young people themselves “play” in mediated and digitized spaces.
Thank you to everyone who applied. The application period has now closed. Successful applicants have been notified.