ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|91 pages
Creation of Knowledge
chapter 3|10 pages
Platforms, Participation, and Place
chapter 7|12 pages
Young Children’s Creativity in Digital Possibility Spaces
part II|95 pages
Digital Media Lives
chapter 12|14 pages
Siblings Accomplishing Tasks Together
part III|90 pages
Complexities of Commodification
chapter 21|9 pages
Pre-School Stars on YouTube
chapter 22|10 pages
Balancing Privacy
chapter 24|9 pages
Digital Literacy/‘Dynamic Literacies’
chapter 26|10 pages
“Technically They’re Your Creations, but …”
part IV|95 pages
Children’s Rights
chapter 30|9 pages
No Fixed Limits?
chapter 36|12 pages
Children’s Rights in the Digital Environment
part V|98 pages
Changing and Challenging Circumstances
chapter 40|11 pages
Children’s Sexuality in the Context of Digital Media
chapter 44|11 pages
Digital Storytelling
part VI|95 pages
Local Complexities in a Global Context