1st Edition
Children and Media Research and Practice during the Crises of 2020
This unique “yearbook” captures the extraordinary events and effects of 2020 on children and media scholars and practitioners. Contributors reflect on how the compounding crises of 2020—the COVID-19 pandemic, international protests for racial justice, and the climate crisis—have prompted them to re-evaluate some aspects of their research, teaching, or production related to children, adolescents, and media.
Crises can be opportunities for clarity, revealing creative ways to address collective challenges. This volume, which began as a special issue of Journal of Children and Media, reveals such insights. Contributors discuss how the crises of 2020:
- Prompted them to reconsider theories and concepts central to research on children, adolescents, and media
- Fostered new priorities for how and what they teach
- Spurred creative ways to produce high-quality, accessible educational media for children globally
- Affected their media engagement with their own children, while they researched children’s media use during social distancing
- Weighed more heavily on scholars and practitioners of color, and how professional communities can best respond to those challenges
These 36 international contributions reveal how children and media scholars and professionals worked through the crises of 2020, putting newfound clarity to creative use in the service of children all over the world.
1. Introduction: Children, media, and the clarity of crises in 2020
Vikki S. Katz and Bradley J. Bond
New Viewpoints on Co-Viewing
2. Digitally connected but personally disconnected? Crisis, digital media and the Australian family
Catherine Page Jeffery
3. U.S. co-viewing during COVID
Amy Franzini
4. Fortnite: a context for child development in the U.S. during COVID-19 (and beyond)
Jessica Navarro
5. Lessons from our living rooms: illuminating lockdowns with technology domestication insights
Sun Sun Lim and Yang Wang
6. Our ‘stay home’ music video: the collision of academic research and family life during COVID-19 lockdown in Melbourne, Australia
Shelley Brunt
Media & Meeting Children’s Diverse Needs at Home
7. Inaccessible media during the COVID-19 crisis intersects with the language deprivation crisis for young deaf children in the U.S.
Kaitlin Stack Whitney and Kristoffer Whitney
8. Media use for children with disabilities in the United States during COVID-19
Jennifer A. Manganello
9. The role of digital media in family life during the U.K. lockdown 2020
E. M. Bent
10. Sleep deprived but socially connected: balancing the risks and benefits of adolescent screen time during COVID-19
Cassidy Fry
Child-Centered Policy in Times of Crisis
11. The privilege of childcare: an intersectional analysis of the COVID-19 U.S. childcare crisis and its implications for CAM research
J. D. Moorman
12. Free, appropriate, public, and educational? Screen-schooling U.S. children with disabilities during the 2020 pandemic
Kristen Harrison
13. Behind the policy frontline in the Netherlands during the Corona crisis
Moniek Buijzen, Doeschka Anschütz, Rebecca N. H. de Leeuw, Daniëlle N. M. Bleize, Anne J. C. Sadza, Simone M. de Droog and Esther Rozendaal & Dutch Young Consumers Network
14. Narratives of online education in India: issues of equity, inclusion, and diversity
Ruchi Jaggi
Producing Crisis-Responsive Content for Children
15. Sesame Workshop’s international response to COVID-19
Tara Wright, Kama Einhorn, Daniel Labin, Sal Perez, Jessica DiSalvo and Rosemarie Truglio
16. Voices and images of hope: the rebirth of educational television in Ecuador in times of COVID-19
Marcela Samudio Granados, Mónica Maruri Castillo and Roberto Ponce-Cordero
17. There is a difference between being aware and being afraid: journalistic media literacy during the era of COVID-19
Shane Tilton
18. Made for this moment: how PBS KIDS navigated the crises of 2020 in the U.S.
Lesli Rotenberg
Children’s Formal and Informal Learning in Remote Environments
19. Digital citizenship under lockdown: promoting the healthy use of technology for adolescents growing-up in Perú during COVID-19
Lucía Magis-Weinberg
20. Where do the children play. . .in a pandemic? Personal observations of U.S. children’s social learning of preventative health through embodied experiences while sheltering-in-place
Steven Holiday
21. Reimagining early childhood education with an urban preschool network: a U.S. partnership to drive greater equity
Michael Levine, Chavaughn Brown, Jack McCarthy and Julia Levy
22. "Bringing you into the Zoom": the power of authentic engagement in a time of crisis in the U.S.A.
Angela Y. Lee, Gloria Moskowitz-Sweet, Erica Pelavin, Omar Rivera and Jeffrey T. Hancock
23. Blurring the boundaries between home and school: how videoconference-based schooling places American education’s cultural values at risk during COVID-19
Kristin Fontichiaro and Wendy Steadman Stephens
24. "Amazing opportunity": reflecting on online communication in Israeli schools during the pandemic
Hadas Nezer Dagan and Rivka Ribak
Children, Media, & Civic Engagement
25. The crises of 2020: the effects of intersectionality and virality on marginalized youth in the U.S.
Amana Kaskazi
26. On research and hope, in an America aflame: sketching youth civic futures as a mother and a researcher
Ioana Literat
27. Beyond home and school: community-based media and youth voice on pandemic life in the United States
Rafi Santo, David Phelps, Colin Angevine, Alexandra Lotero and Lucy Herz
28. Media literacy lessons for American children in the Kids’ Antiracist Bookclub
Kristin L. Drogos
The Scholar-Teacher & 2020’s Compounding Crises
29. Connecting research, children’s media, and identity during the U.S. Black Lives Matter movement
AnneMarie McClain
30. Researching long-distance communication during social distancing: implications for a study of left-behind children in China
Xiaoying Han
31. Overcoming pandemic social distancing challenges in research in Portugal and England
Teresa Sofia Castro
32. The collective challenges of color, COVID-19, and their convergence
David Stamps
33. Connected to devices, disconnected from children: struggles of urban, dual-earning parents in India during COVID-19
Sowparnika Pavan Kumar Attavar
34. My pandemic pedagogy playbook: a glimpse into higher education in the Dutch Zoom-room
Jessica Taylor Piotrowski
Where to From Here?
35. Worriers and warriors
Amy B. Jordan
36. Like post-cataract surgery: what came into focus about children and media research during the pandemic
Dafna Lemish
Biography
Vikki S. Katz is Professor in the School of Communication and Information at Chapman University, USA, and Editor of the Journal of Children and Media.
Bradley J. Bond is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of San Diego (USD), USA, and Review and Commentary Editor of the Journal of Children and Media.
