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"
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.
