Routledge, 2021. — 631 p.
The Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Children is a handbook that presents the newest research in this important area, showcasing the huge diversity in children’s relationships with digital media around the globe, and exploring the benefits, challenges, history, and emerging developments in the field. Children are finding novel ways to express their passions and priorities through innovative uses of digital communication tools. This collection investigates and critiques the dynamism of children's lives online with contributions fielding both global and hyper-local issues, and bridging the wide spectrum of connected media created for and by children. From education to children's rights to cyberbullying and youth in challenging circumstances, the interdisciplinary approach ensures a careful, nuanced, multi-dimensional exploration of children’s relationships with digital media. Featuring a highly international range of case studies, perspectives, and socio-cultural contexts, The Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Children is the perfect reference tool for students and researchers of media and communication, family and technology studies, psychology, education, anthropology, and sociology, as well as interested teachers, policy makers, and parents.
Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Introduction: Children and Digital Media
Lelia Green, Donell Holloway, Kylie Stevenson, Tama Leaver, and Leslie Haddon
Acknowledgements
PART I Creation of Knowledge
Child Studies Meets Digital Media: Rethinking the Paradigms
Natalie Coulter
Engaging in Ethical Research Partnerships with Children and Families
Madeleine Dobson
Platforms, Participation, and Place: Understanding Young People’s Changing Digital Media Worlds
Heather A. Horst and Luke Gaspard
Methodological Issues in Researching Children and Digital Media
Rebekah Willett and Chris Richards
Young Learners in the Digital Age
Christine Stephen
Children Who Code
Jamie C. Macbeth, Michael J. Lee, Jung Soo Kim, and Tony Boming Zhang
Young Children’s Creativity in Digital Possibility Spaces: What Might Posthumanism Reveal?
Kylie J. Stevenson
The Domestication of Touchscreen Technologies in Families with Young Children
Leslie Haddon
Grandparental Mediation of Children’s Digital Media Use
Nelly Elias, Dafna Lemish, and Galit Nimrod
PART II Digital Media Lives
Young Children’s Haptic Media Habitus
Bjørn Nansen
Early Encounters with Narrative: Two-Year-Olds and Moving-Image Media
Cary Bazalgette
Siblings Accomplishing Tasks Together: Solicited and Unsolicited Assistance When Using Digital Technology
Sandy Houen, Susan Danby, and Pernilla Miller
Children as Architects of Their Digital Worlds
Joanne O’Mara, Linda Laidlaw, and Suzanna So Har Wong
Teens’ Online and Offline Lives: How They Are Experiencing Their Sociability
Sara Pereira, Joana Fillol, and Pedro Moura
Teens’ Fandom Communities: Making Friends and Countering Unwanted Contacts
Julián de la Fuente and Pilar Lacasa
Identity Exploration in Anonymous Online Spaces
Mary Anne Lauri and Lorleen Farrugia
Supervised Play: Intimate Surveillance and Children’s Mobile Media Usage
William Balmford, Larissa Hjorth, and Ingrid Richardson
Challenging Adolescents’ Autonomy: An Affordances Perspective on Parental Tools
Bieke Zaman, Marije Nouwen, and Karla Van Leeuwen
PART III Complexities of Commodification
Children’s Enrolment in Online Consumer Culture
Ylva Ågren
The Emergence and Ethics of Child-Created Content as Media Industries
Benjamin Burroughs and Gavin Feller
Pre-School Stars on YouTube: Child Microcelebrities, Commercially Viable Biographies, and Interactions with Technology
Crystal Abidin
Balancing Privacy: Sharenting, Intimate Surveillance, and the Right to Be Forgotten
Tama Leaver
Parenting Pedagogies in the Marketing of Children’s Apps
Donell Holloway, Giovanna Mascheroni, and Ashley Donkin
Digital Literacy/‘Dynamic Literacies’: Formal and Informal Learning Now and in the Emergent Future
John Potter
Being and Not Being: ‘Digital Tweens’ in a Hybrid Culture
Inês Vitorino Sampaio, Thinayna Máximo, and Cristina Ponte
“Technically They’re Your Creations, but...”: Children Making, Playing, and Negotiating User-Generated Content Games
Sara M. Grimes and Vinca Merriman
Marketing to Children through Digital Media: Trends and Issues
Wonsun Shin
PART IV Children’s Rights
Child-Centred Policy: Enfranchising Children as Digital Policy-Makers
Brian O’Neill
Law, Digital Media, and the Discomfort of Children’s Rights
Brian Simpson
No Fixed Limits? The Uncomfortable Application of Inconsistent Law to the Lives of Children Dealing with Digital Media
Brian Simpson
Children’s Agency in the Media Socialisation Process
Claudia Riesmeyer
Digital Citizenship in Domestic Contexts
Lelia Green
Digital Socialising in Children on the Autism Spectrum
Meryl Alper and Madison Irons
Disability, Children, and the Invention of Digital Media
Katie Ellis, Gerard Goggin, and Mike Kent
Children’s Moral Agency in the Digital Environment
Joke Bauwens and Lien Mostmans
Children’s Rights in the Digital Environment: A Challenging Terrain for Evidence-Based Policy
Sonia Livingstone, Amanda Third, and Gerison Lansdown
PART V Changing and Challenging Circumstances
Caring Dataveillance: Women’s Use of Apps to Monitor Pregnancy and Children
Deborah Lupton
Digital Media and Sleep in Children
Alicia Allan and Simon Smith
Sick Children and Social Media
Ana Jorge, Lidia Marôpo, and Raiana de Carvalho
Children’s Sexuality in the Context of Digital Media: Sexualisation, Sexting, and Experiences with Sexual Content in a Research Perspective
Liza Tsaliki and Despina Chronaki
Digital Inequalities Amongst Digital Natives
Ellen J. Helsper
Street Children and Social Media: Identity Construction in the Digital Age
Marcela Losantos Velasco, Lien Mostmans, and Guadalupe Peres-Cajías
Perspectives on Cyberbullying and Traditional Bullying: Same or Different?
Robin M. Kowalski and Annie McCord
Digital Storytelling: Opportunities for Identity Investment for Youth from Refugee Backgrounds
Lauren Johnson and Maureen Kendrick
Children, Death, and Digital Media
Kathleen M. Cumiskey
PART VI Local Complexities in a Global Context
Very Young Children’s Digital Literacy: Engagement, Practices, Learning, and Home–School–Community Knowledge Exchange in Lisbon, Portugal
Vítor Tomé and Maria José Brites
The Voices of African Children
Chika Anyanwu
Limiting the Digital in Brazilian Schools: Structural Difficulties and School Culture
Daniela Costa and Juliana Doretto
Australia and Consensual Sexting: The Creation of Child Pornography or Exploitation Materials?
Amy Shields Dobson
Revisiting Children’s Participation in Television: Implications for Digital Media Rights in Bangladesh 527
S M Shameem Reza and Ashfara Haque
Chinese Teen Digital Entertainment: Rethinking Censorship and Commercialisation in Short Video and Online Fiction
Xiang Ren
Sexual Images, Risk, and Perception among Youth: A Nordic Example
Elisabeth Staksrud
US-Based Toy Unboxing Production in Children’s Culture
Jarrod Walczer
The Role of Digital Media in the Lives of Some American Muslim Children, 2010–2019
Nahid Afrose Kabir
Index