Full Description
Bringing together the leading researchers on children, adolescents, and the media, this books offers their cutting-edge, 'big picture' ideas for the future of research and scholarship in the field. Individual chapters focus on topics such as the role of big data in media research, digital literacy, parenting in the era of mobile media, media diversity in the digital age, the impact of media on child development, children's digital rights, the implications of 'intelligent' characters and parasocial relationships, and the effectiveness of transmedia for informal education. Several chapters also explore the theoretical and methodological challenges facing children's media researchers. Offering new directions for research, the contributors consider the implications of the changing media landscape for parents, educators, advocates, and producers. Leading scholars from North America, Europe and Asia, grounded in different theoretical and methodological traditions, join forces to discuss the impact of growing up in a media- saturated world, and to stimulate thinking about the field of children and media in unexpected ways. This book was originally published as two special issues of the Journal of Children and Media.
Contents
Introduction 1. Reframing media effects in terms of children's rights in the digital age 2. What kind of adults will our children become? The impact of growing up in a media-saturated world 3. Through the tablet glass: transcendent parenting in an era of mobile media and cloud computing 4. The child-effect in the new media environment: challenges and opportunities for communication research 5. Introducing positive media psychology to the field of children, adolescents, and media 6. Past tensions and future possibilities: ARCYP and children's media studies 7. What's next for research on young children's interactive media? 8. Evaluating the utility of methodological assumptions in mass media effects research on children 9. Computational CAM: studying children and media in the age of big data 10. Measuring time spent with media: the Common Sense census of media use by US 8- to 18-year-olds 11. Grasping children's media practices — theoretical and methodological challenges 12. Children's media practices: challenges and dilemmas for the qualitative researcher 13. What 'children' experience and 'adults' may overlook: phenomenological approaches to media practice, education and research 14. Researching children, intersectionality, and diversity in the digital age 15. Children, the media, and the epistemic imperative of embodied vulnerability 16. Production studies, transformations in children's television and the global turn 17. Researching CAM: our Herculean task 18. School librarians as stakeholders in the children and media community: a dialogue 19. Education and the mediated subject: what today's teachers need most from researchers of youth and media 20. Moved into action. Media literacy as social process 21. "Someday you'll have children just like you": what tomorrow's parents can teach us about parental mediation research 22. Children's future parasocial relationships with media characters: the age of intelligent characters 23. Media effects as health research: how pediatricians have changed the study of media and child development 24. Faraway, so close: why the digital industry needs scholars and the other way around 25. Five hundred years back and five years forward: games and play at a new crossroads 26. Building meaningful cross-sector partnerships for children and media initiatives: a conversation café with scholars and activists from around the world Symposium 27. Transmedia in the service of education 28. Dramatic change, persistent challenges: a five-year view of children's educational media as resources for equity 29. Designing media for cross-platform learning: developing models for production and instructional design 30. The role of research and evaluation in Ready to Learn transmedia development 31. Supporting children's progress through the PBS KIDS learning analytics platform 32. Leveraging transmedia content to reach and support underserved children 33. Transmedia meets the digital divide: adapting transmedia approaches to reach underserved Hispanic families
