The Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Children

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 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. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 List of Tables 11 List of Figures 13 List of Contributors 14 Introduction: Children and Digital Media 28 Acknowledgements 42 PART I: Creation of Knowledge 44 1. Child Studies Meets Digital Media: Rethinking the Paradigms 46 2. Engaging in Ethical Research Partnerships with Children and Families 55 3. Platforms, Participation, and Place: Understanding Young People?s Changing Digital Media Worlds 65 4. Methodological Issues in Researching Children and Digital Media 75 5. Young Learners in the Digital Age 84 6. Children Who Code 94 7. Young Children?s Creativity in Digital Possibility Spaces: What Might Posthumanism Reveal? 102 8. The Domestication of Touchscreen Technologies in Families with Young Children 114 9. Grandparental Mediation of Children?s Digital Media Use 123 PART II: Digital Media Lives 136 10. Young Children?s Haptic Media Habitus 138 11. Early Encounters with Narrative: Two-Year-Olds and Moving-Image Media 147 12. Siblings Accomplishing Tasks Together: Solicited and Unsolicited Assistance When Using Digital Technology 157 13. Children as Architects of Their Digital Worlds 171 14. Teens? Online and Offline Lives: How They Are Experiencing Their Sociability 179 15. Teens? Fandom Communities: Making Friends and Countering Unwanted Contacts 188 16. Identity Exploration in Anonymous Online Spaces 200 17. Supervised Play: Intimate Surveillance and Children?s Mobile Media Usage 212 18. Challenging Adolescents? Autonomy: An Affordances Perspective on Parental Tools 222 PART III: Complexities of Commodification 232 19. Children?s Enrolment in Online Consumer Culture 234 20. The Emergence and Ethics of Child-Created Content as Media Industries 244 21. Pre-School Stars on YouTube: Child Microcelebrities, Commercially Viable Biographies, and Interactions with Technology 253 22. Balancing Privacy: Sharenting, Intimate Surveillance, and the Right to Be Forgotten 262 23. Parenting Pedagogies in the Marketing of Children?s Apps 272 24. Digital Literacy/?Dynamic Literacies?: Formal and Informal Learning Now and in the Emergent Future 283 25. Being and Not Being: ?Digital Tweens? in a Hybrid Culture 292 26. ?Technically They?re Your Creations, but . . .?: Children Making, Playing, and Negotiating User-Generated Content Games 302 27. Marketing to Children through Digital Media: Trends and Issues 312 PART IV: Children?s Rights 322 28. Child-Centred Policy: Enfranchising Children as Digital Policy-Makers 324 29. Law, Digital Media, and the Discomfort of Children?s Rights 335 30. No Fixed Limits? The Uncomfortable Application of Inconsistent Law to the Lives of Children Dealing with Digital Media 345 31. Children?s Agency in the Media Socialisation Process 354 32. Digital Citizenship in Domestic Contexts 364 33. Digital Socialising in Children on the Autism Spectrum 375 34. Disability, Children, and the Invention of Digital Media 385 35. Children?s Moral Agency in the Digital Environment 395 36. Children?s Rights in the Digital Environment: A Challenging Terrain for Evidence-Based Policy 405 PART V: Changing and Challenging Circumstances 418 37. Caring Dataveillance: Women?s Use of Apps to Monitor Pregnancy and Children 420 38. Digital Media and Sleep in Children 430 39. Sick Children and Social Media 441 40. Children?s Sexuality in the Context of Digital Media: Sexualisation, Sexting, and Experiences with Sexual Content in a Research Perspective 451 41. Digital Inequalities Amongst Digital Natives 462 42. Street Children and Social Media: Identity Construction in the Digital Age 476 43. Perspectives on Cyberbullying and Traditional Bullying: Same or Different? 487 44. Digital Storytelling: Opportunities for Identity Investment for Youth from Refugee Backgrounds 496 45. Children, Death, and Digital Media 507 PART VI: Local Complexities in a Global Context 516 46. Very Young Children?s Digital Literacy: Engagement, Practices, Learning, and Home?School?Community Knowledge Exchange in Lisbon, Portugal 518 47. The Voices of African Children 527 48. Limiting the Digital in Brazilian Schools: Structural Difficulties and School Culture 535 49. Australia and Consensual Sexting: The Creation of Child Pornography or Exploitation Materials? 545 50. Revisiting Children?s Participation in Television: Implications for Digital Media Rights in Bangladesh 554 51. Chinese Teen Digital Entertainment: Rethinking Censorship and Commercialisation in Short Video and Online Fiction 566 52. Sexual Images, Risk, and Perception among Youth: A Nordic Example 576 53. US-Based Toy Unboxing Production in Children?s Culture 589 54. The Role of Digital Media in the Lives of Some American Muslim Children, 2010?2019 599 Index 611 "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 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"-- Provided by publisher