Children, Media, and Pandemic Parenting - Family Life in Uncertain Times

This book examines changes in families' rules and routines connected with media during the pandemic and shifts in parents' understanding of children's media use.

List of contents

Foreword: Learning from the pandemic
1 Introduction: Families, screen media, and daily life during the pandemic
2 Space, Time, and Families' Relational Media Practices: China and Canada
3 Temporalities and changing understandings of children's use of media: Australia, China and the United States
4 Schooling with and through technologies during the pandemic: South Korea and the UK
5 'Just doing stupid things': Affective affinities for imagining children's digital creativity
6 Imaginaries of Parental Controls: The State, Market and Families
7 Conclusion: contributions, provocations, and calls to action

About the author

Rebekah Willett is Professor in the Information School at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. She conducts research on children's media cultures, focusing on issues of play, literacy, identity, and learning. Her publications include work on makerspaces, playground games, amateur camcorder cultures, online gaming, and family media practices.
Xinyu Zhao is Research Fellow (Digital Childhoods) at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child, Deakin University, Australia. His work focuses on everyday digital cultures and practices in migration contexts. He is currently researching the political economy of digital childhoods and cultural diversity in contemporary digital parenting.

Summary

This book examines changes in families’ rules and routines connected with media during the pandemic and shifts in parents’ understanding of children’s media use.

Product details

• Authors: Rebekah Zhao Willett
• Assisted by: Rebekah Willett (Editor), Willett Rebekah (Editor), Xinyu Zhao (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.07.2024
• EAN: 9781032602035
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3260203-5
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Sociology: family & relationships, Communication Studies, Sociology: family and relationships, Pre-school & kindergarten, Pre-school and kindergarten, Digital Animation, COMPUTERS / Design, Graphics & Media / Video & Animation