Children and Media Research and Practice during the Crises of 2020

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.

• 1. Introduction: Children, media, and the clarity of crises in 2020Vikki S. Katz and Bradley J. BondNew Viewpoints on Co-Viewing2. Digitally connected but personally disconnected? Crisis, digital media and the Australian familyCatherine Page Jeffery3. U.S. co-viewing during COVIDAmy Franzini4. Fortnite: a context for child development in the U.S. during COVID-19 (and beyond)Jessica Navarro5. Lessons from our living rooms: illuminating lockdowns with technology domestication insightsSun Sun Lim and Yang Wang6. Our ‘stay home’ music video: the collision of academic research and family life during COVID-19 lockdown in Melbourne, AustraliaShelley BruntMedia & Meeting Children’s Diverse Needs at Home7. 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 Whitney8. Media use for children with disabilities in the United States during COVID-19Jennifer A. Manganello9. The role of digital media in family life during the U.K. lockdown 2020E. M. Bent10. Sleep deprived but socially connected: balancing the risks and benefits of adolescent screen time during COVID-19Cassidy FryChild-Centered Policy in Times of Crisis11. The privilege of childcare: an intersectional analysis of the COVID-19 U.S. childcare crisis and its implications for CAM researchJ. D. Moorman12. Free, appropriate, public, and educational? Screen-schooling U.S. children with disabilities during the 2020 pandemicKristen Harrison13. Behind the policy frontline in the Netherlands during the Corona crisisMoniek 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 Network14. Narratives of online education in India: issues of equity, inclusion, and diversityRuchi JaggiProducing Crisis-Responsive Content for Children15. Sesame Workshop’s international response to COVID-19Tara Wright, Kama Einhorn, Daniel Labin, Sal Perez, Jessica DiSalvo and Rosemarie Truglio16. Voices and images of hope: the rebirth of educational television in Ecuador in times of COVID-19Marcela Samudio Granados, Mónica Maruri Castillo and Roberto Ponce-Cordero17. There is a difference between being aware and being afraid: journalistic media literacy during the era of COVID-19Shane Tilton18. Made for this moment: how PBS KIDS navigated the crises of 2020 in the U.S.Lesli RotenbergChildren’s Formal and Informal Learning in Remote Environments19. Digital citizenship under lockdown: promoting the healthy use of technology for adolescents growing-up in Perú during COVID-19Lucía Magis-Weinberg20. 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-placeSteven Holiday21. Reimagining early childhood education with an urban preschool network: a U.S. partnership to drive greater equityMichael Levine, Chavaughn Brown, Jack McCarthy and Julia Levy22. "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. Hancock23. Blurring the boundaries between home and school: how videoconference-based schooling places American education’s cultural values at risk during COVID-19Kristin Fontichiaro and Wendy Steadman Stephens24. "Amazing opportunity": reflecting on online communication in Israeli schools during the pandemicHadas Nezer Dagan and Rivka RibakChildren, Media, & Civic Engagement25. The crises of 2020: the effects of intersectionality and virality on marginalized youth in the U.S.Amana Kaskazi26. On research and hope, in an America aflame: sketching youth civic futures as a mother and a researcherIoana Literat27. Beyond home and school: community-based media and youth voice on pandemic life in the United StatesRafi Santo, David Phelps, Colin Angevine, Alexandra Lotero and Lucy Herz28. Media literacy lessons for American children in the Kids’ Antiracist BookclubKristin L. DrogosThe Scholar-Teacher & 2020’s Compounding Crises29. Connecting research, children’s media, and identity during the U.S. Black Lives Matter movementAnneMarie McClain30. Researching long-distance communication during social distancing: implications for a study of left-behind children in ChinaXiaoying Han31. Overcoming pandemic social distancing challenges in research in Portugal and EnglandTeresa Sofia Castro32. The collective challenges of color, COVID-19, and their convergenceDavid Stamps33. Connected to devices, disconnected from children: struggles of urban, dual-earning parents in India during COVID-19Sowparnika Pavan Kumar Attavar34. My pandemic pedagogy playbook: a glimpse into higher education in the Dutch Zoom-roomJessica Taylor PiotrowskiWhere to From Here?35. Worriers and warriorsAmy B. Jordan36. Like post-cataract surgery: what came into focus about children and media research during the pandemicDafna Lemish