Your first thoughts

Children and the Media

Representations of children/childhood.

A good area but you need to focus a bit – not just do “the media” generally. Advertising would be fine – you wouldn’t just have to do advertising aimed at children. You could range more broadly.

Good things to read are “After the Death of Childhood” by David Buckingham (several good chapters in it -ask me for it) and also look here:

http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/sections/advert02.html

What will you do for primary research? You could ask children to consider the representations, or you could interview another audience group, as long as you have a reason for it.