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 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