Children, Media, and Pandemic Parenting : : Family Life in Uncertain Times.

• Superior document: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture Series
• Author: Willett, Rebekah.
• TeilnehmendeR: Zhao, Xinyu.
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (217 pages)

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.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- References -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Families, Screen Media, and Daily Life During the Pandemic -- Media and Family Life During the Pandemic: Recent Scholarship -- Media During the Pandemic -- Managing Childcare During the Pandemic -- Theoretical Lenses -- General Research Methods -- Overviews of the Chapters -- References -- 2 Space, Time, and Families' Relational Media Practices: China and Canada -- Introduction -- Literature Review and Theoretical Framework -- Space -- Crafting Spatial Boundaries -- Co-presence: Togetherness (Or Not) in Families' Screen Media Practices -- Time -- Repurposing Screen Time -- Managing Family Time -- Imagining Post-Pandemic Times -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Temporalities and Changing Understandings of Children's Use of Media: Australia, China, and the United States -- Introduction -- Theoretical Frame: Time and Temporal Imaginaries -- New Distinctions Around Purposes for Children's Use of Media -- Increased Understandings of Media Content -- Exacerbated Worries About Screen Media -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Schooling With and Through Technologies During the Pandemic: South Korea and the UK -- Introduction -- Conceptual Framework: Terrains of Parental Responsibilisation -- Case Study Analyses -- School Partnership and Responsibilisation in South Korea -- Screen Media and Responsibilisation in South Korea -- Family Schedules and Responsibilisation in South Korea -- School Partnerships and Responsibilisation in the UK -- Screen Media and Responsibilisation in the UK -- Family Schedules and Responsibilisation in the UK -- Conclusions -- References -- 5 'Just Doing Stupid Things': Affective Affinities for Imagining Children's Digital Creativity -- Introduction.

Perceptive and Epistemological Implications of Parental Imaginaries -- Imaginaries of the Creative Child -- Imaginaries of the Good Parent -- Parental Imaginaries of Childhood and Digital Media -- Parental Imaginaries of the Rhetorics of Play and Digital Creativity -- Conceptual Approach -- Conceptual Apparatus -- Data and Methods -- Findings and Discussion -- Parental Imaginaries and Digital Creativity -- Kate's Story (Australia): Curated Creativity -- Jade's Story (Australia): Balancing Act Between Convention and Innovation -- Bee's Story (Australia): The Phantasmagorical Digital Realm -- Suspension of the Parental Imaginary: (Lack Of) Control -- Koshka's Story (UK): Go for It, Go Crazy -- Conflicted Parental Imaginaries: Coping-Not-Coping -- Paula and Pablo's Story (Colombia) -- Helena's Story (Colombia) -- Parental Imaginaries Under Threat: Fear of the End of Childhood -- Daniela and Diego's Story (Colombia) -- Reconfiguring Parental Imaginaries: Creative Openings -- References -- 6 Imaginaries of Parental Controls: The State, Market, and Families -- Introduction -- The Conceptual Lens of Imaginaries -- Parental Controls in Public Imaginaries -- Parental Imaginaries of Parental Controls -- Internalising Dominant Imaginaries -- Contesting Dominant Imaginaries (During the Pandemic) -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 Conclusion: Contributions, Provocations, and Calls to Action -- Findings and Contributions -- Provocations and Calls to Actions -- References -- Appendix 1 Summaries of COVID-19 Timelines -- Australia -- Canada -- China -- Colombia -- South Korea -- United Kingdom -- United States -- Appendix 2 Overviews of Research Studies in Each Country -- Australia -- Canada -- Sources -- China -- Colombia -- South Korea -- United Kingdom -- United States -- Appendix 3 Information About Research Participants and Their Families.

Appendix 4 Codebook for Data Analysis -- Index.