This conference will be of interest to folks doing work on young people and digital culture. Please circulate. Is childhood intensifying, or eroding? This will be the guiding question of the 2026 edition of the Child & Teen Consumer Culture conference, which will be held from 22 to 24 April 2026 at King’s College London. We invite all disciplines to contribute historical and contemporary reflections on the following themes: * agency in the digital economy; * sustainability and the climate crisis * changing institutions of childhood. The deadline for submissions has been extended to 7 September 2025. More information is available on the conference website: https://ctcc-2026.kcl.ac.uk/ Submissions may examine a variety of topics, including but not limited to: * Advertising, branding, and marketing to and by young people * Children and issues of sustainability (SDG) * Children and teens facing climate change * Children’s rights in the marketplace * Children and teens’ consumption imaginaries and consumer desires * Children and teens involved in global migration * Children and teens’ food cultures * Digital literacies and consumption * Digital technologies and platforms * Economic enculturation / socialisation * Families and consumer culture * Gender, race, and disability in youth consumer culture * Historical approaches to consumption and play * LGBTQIA2+ youth * Methodological advances in children and consumption research * New forms of play and fun * Poverty, scarcity, and exclusion from consumption realms * Policy on marketing and advertising in an AI-driven context * Social media practices and cultures * Youth material cultures Natalie Natalie Coulter, PhD (she/her) (on research leave until June 2026) • Associate Professor • Communication and Media Studies • YORK UNIVERSITY https://profiles.laps.yorku.ca/profiles/ncoulter/ Principal Investigator: Bearing Witness Project<https://www.yorku.ca/laps/research/bearing-witness/> Principal Investigator: Questioning KidTech<https://www.yorku.ca/laps/research/questioning-kidtech/about/> Latest Book: Media and Communication in Canada<https://learninglink.oup.com/access/gasher10e> This electronic mail (e-mail), including any attachments, is intended only for the recipient(s) to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and/or exempt from disclosure. No waiver of privilege, confidentiality or any other protection is intended by virtue of its communication by the internet. Any unauthorized use, dissemination or copying is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, or are not named as a recipient, please immediately notify the sender and destroy all copies of it --