Directory Profile

Ellen Seiter holds the Nenno Endowed Chair in Television Studies at the USC School of Cinematic Arts where she teaches courses on television and new media history, theory and criticism in the Critical Studies Division. She is the author of The Internet Playground: Children’s Access, Entertainment and Mis-Education (Peter Lang, 2005), Television and New Media Audiences (Oxford, 1999), Sold Separately: Children and Parents in Consumer Culture (Rutgers, 1993) and Remote Control; Television, Audiences and Cultural Power (Routledge, 1989). Her latest book, The Creative Artist’s Legal Guide:Copyright, Trademark and Contracts in Film and Digital Media Production was published in 2012 by Yale University Press.

• “Child Reporting Online: The Cultural Politics of the Computer Lab” - Television & New Media

Remote Control: Television, Audiences and Cultural Power (co-editor, Routledge, 1989)

Sold Separately: Children and Parents in Consumer Culture (Rutgers University Press, 1993)

Television and New Media Audiences (Oxford University Press, 1999)

The Internet Playground: Children’s Entertainment, Access and Mis-Education (Peter Lang, 2005)

The Creative Artist’s Legal Guide: Copyright, Trademark and Contracts in Film and Digital Media Production (co-author, Yale University Press, 2012)