Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides a thoroughly researched and comprehensive overview of multidisciplinary scholarship concerning children’s media and technology. It aims to complement efforts to coordinate diverse perspectives and facilitate dialogue among groups of researchers who typically collect and share evidence in segregated communities. The book offers a comprehensive survey of methods and approaches in the field of children’s technologies. It examines how children take on original identities in becoming literate with technologies. Technology brings into sharp relief the need for conversations with researchers across communities. The researchers’ key contributions lie in elucidating how children develop their own cognitive and emotional understandings of technologies. A particularly fruitful method of educational research and technology-related research with young children in particular, is that of co-research, where participants act as co-creators of knowledge.