ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a look into children’s entertainment, edutainment, and interactive and technology usage. It presents different media formats and trends in media content and character brands, storytelling and narrative. It offers a glimpse into new technologies. It shows a developmental timeline for media usage for children, how technology is used by parents, and children’s relationships with different formats and platforms, including books, e-books, music, children’s and family films, television, social media and digital games.
