The Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Children which I co-edited with Lelia Green, Donell Holloway, Kylie Stevenson and Leslie Haddon was released in ebook form in October 2020, and in print late November 2020. It’s a big one, clocking in at just over 560 pages, with 54 chapters!
Here’s the book blurb:
This companion 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 inter-disciplinary 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.
And here is the full list of chapters:
Introduction / Lelia Green, Donell Holloway, Kylie Stevenson, Tama Leaver and Leslie Haddon
PART I Creation of Knowledge
1 Child Studies Meets Digital Media: Rethinking the Paradigms / Natalie Coulter
2 Engaging in Ethical Research Partnerships with Children and Families / Madeleine Dobson
3 Platforms, Participation and Place: Understanding Young People’s Changing Digital Media Worlds / Heather Horst and luke gaspard
4 Methodological Issues in Researching Children and Digital Media / Rebekah Willett and Chris Richards
5 Young Learners in the Digital Age / Christine Stephen
6 Children Who Code / Jamie C. Macbeth, Michael J. Lee, Jung Soo Kim and Tony Boming Zhang
7 Young children’s creativity in digital possibility spaces: What might posthumanism reveal? / Kylie J. Stevenson
8 The Domestication of Touchscreen Technologies in Families with Young Children / Leslie Haddon
9 Grandparental Mediation of Children’s Digital Media Use / Nelly Elias, Dafna Lemish and Galit Nimrod
PART II Digital Media Lives
10 Young Children’s Haptic Media Habitus / Bjorn Nansen
11 Early Encounters with Narrative: Two-Year-Olds and Moving-Image Media / Cary Bazalgette
12 Siblings Accomplishing Tasks Together: Solicited and Unsolicited Assistance when Using Digital Technology / Sandy Houen, Susan Danby and Pernilla Miller
13 Children as Architects of Their Digital Worlds / Joanne O’Mara, Linda Laidlaw and Suzanna So Har Wong
14 Teens’ Online and Offline Lives: How They Are Experiencing Their Sociability / Sara Pereira, Joana Fillol and Pedro Moura
15 Teens’ Fandom Communities: Making Friends and Countering Unwanted Contacts / Julián de la Fuente and Pilar Lacasa
16 Identity Exploration in Anonymous Online Spaces / Mary Anne Lauri and Lorleen Farrugia
17 Supervised Play: Intimate Surveillance and Children’s Mobile Media Usage / William Balmford, Larissa Hjorth and Ingrid Richardson
18 Challenging Adolescents’ Autonomy: An Affordances Perspective on Parental Tools / Bieke Zaman, Marije Nouwen and Karla Van Leeuwen
PART III Complexities of Commodification
19 Children’s Enrolment in Online Consumer Culture / Ylva Ågren
20 The Emergence and Ethics of Child-Created Content as Media Industries / Benjamin Burroughs and Gavin Feller
21 Pre-school Stars on YouTube: Child Microcelebrities, Commercially Viable Biographies, and Interactions with Technology / Crystal Abidin
22 Balancing Privacy: Sharenting, Intimate Surveillance and the Right to be Forgotten / Tama Leaver
23 Parenting Pedagogies in the Marketing of Children’s Apps / Donell Holloway, Giovanna Mascheroni and Ashley Donkin
24 Digital Literacy/‘Dynamic Literacies’: Formal and Informal Learning Now and in the Emergent Future / John Potter
25 Being and Not Being: ‘Digital Tweens’ in a Hybrid Culture / Inês Vitorino Sampaio, Thinayna Máximo and Cristina Ponte
26 “Technically They’re Your Creations, but…”: Children Making, Playing, and Negotiating User-Generated Content Games / Sara M. Grimes and Vinca Merriman
27 Marketing to Children Through Digital Media: Trends and Issues / Wonsun Shin
PART IV Children’s Rights
28 Child-Centred Policy: Enfranchising Children as Digital Policy-Makers / Brian O’Neill
29 Law, Digital Media and the Discomfort of Children’s Rights / Brian Simpson
30 No Fixed Limits? The Uncomfortable Application of Inconsistent Law to the Lives of Children Dealing with Digital Media / Brian Simpson
31 Children’s Agency in the Media Socialisation Process / Claudia Riesmeyer
32 Digital Citizenship in Domestic Contexts / Lelia Green
33 Digital Socialising in Children on the Autism Spectrum / Meryl Alper and Madison Irons
34 Disability, Children, and the Invention of Digital Media / Katie Ellis, Gerard Goggin and Mike Kent
35 Children’s Moral Agency in the Digital Environment / Joke Bauwens and Lien Mostmans
36 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
37 Caring Dataveillance: Women’s Use of Apps to Monitor Pregnancy and Children / Deborah Lupton
38 Digital Media and Sleep in Children / Alicia Allan and Simon Smith
39 Sick Children and Social Media / Ana Jorge, Lidia Marôpo and Raiana De Carvalho
40 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
41 Digital Inequalities Amongst Digital Natives / Ellen J. Helsper
42 Street Children and Social Media: Identity Construction in the Digital Age / Marcela Losantos Velasco, Lien Mostmans and Guadalupe Peres-Cajías
43 Perspectives on Cyberbullying and Traditional Bullying: Same or Different? / Robin M. Kowalski and Annie McCord
44 Digital Storytelling: Opportunities for Identity Investment for Youth from Refugee Backgrounds / Lauren Johnson and Maureen Kendrick
45 Children, Death and Digital Media / Kathleen M. Cumiskey
PART VI Local Complexities in a Global Context
46 Very Young Children’s Digital Literacy: Engagement, Practices, Learning and Home-School-Community Knowledge Exchange in Lisbon, Portugal / Vítor Tomé and Maria José Brites
47 The Voices of African Children / Chika Anyanwu
48 Limiting the Digital in Brazilian Schools: Structural Difficulties and School Culture / Daniela Costa and Juliana Doretto
49 Australia and Consensual Sexting: The Creation of Child Pornography or Exploitation Materials? / Amy Shields Dobson
50 Revisiting Children’s Participation in Television: Implications for Digital Media Rights in Bangladesh / S M Shameem Reza and Ashfara Haque
51 Chinese Teen Digital Entertainment: Rethinking Censorship and Commercialisation in Short Video and Online Fiction / Xiang Ren
52 Sexual Images, Risk and Perception Among Youth – A Nordic Example / Elisabeth Staksrud
53 US-Based Toy Unboxing Production in Children’s Culture / Jarrod Walczer
54 The Role of Digital Media in the Lives of Some American Muslim Children, 2010–2019 / Nahid Kabir
Reviews:
“This book offers profound insights into how digital media has transformed and shaped children’s experiences in an increasingly interconnected world.”
– Nur Hidayat, International Journal of Primary, Elementary and Early Years Education