Children, Adolescents, and Media

Dafna Lemish is the founding editor of the Journal of Children and Media and a prolific writer in this field. Her latest books include Children and Media: A Global Perspective (2015) and The Routledge International Handbook on Children, Adolescents and media (2013).Amy Jordan is co-editor of the Journal of Children and Media and past president of the International Communication Association. Her latest book is Media and the Well-Being of Children and Adolescents (2015).Vicky Rideout is a children’s media researcher and the reviews and commentary editor at the Journal of Children and Media. From 1997-2010 she was Vice President of the Kaiser Family Foundation. She currently runs her own consultancy, VJR Consulting, conducting research for non-profits, academic institutions, and media companies.

• 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