Children’s digital friendship practices during the first Covid-19 lockdown

During the Covid-19 pandemic, digital technologies have come to the forefront of mostpeople’s social, professional, and educational lives, and children have, like everyone else, depended on digital media for remote schooling as well as informal communication with their peers. This article presents results from a qualitative interview study among 20 Danish children, aged 3–12, and their parents during the spring and summer of 2020. As would be expected, age predicted a certain level of proficiency with, and access to, digital media technologies. However, children across the age spectrum of our sample relied on adult facilitation of digital practices in similar ways during a time where these were foregrounded in unforeseen ways. We discuss these findings in relation to a triadic theoretical framework of distributed agency, dynamic affordances, and access-oriented aspects of children’s practices with communication technology

Indledning: At skabe sig selv og sit felt

Professor Kirsten Drotner fortjener en faglig fejring, hvilket hun får med dette særnummer af Aktualitet, der har skikkelse af et festskrift. Samtidig får den bredere læserskare en unik samling korte videnskabelige artikler, der tilbyder både nye, aktuelle forskningsresultater og retrospektive blik på metodiske udviklinger med mere.

Nordic Childhoods in the Digital Age. Insights into Contemporary Research on Communication, Learning and Education.

This book adds to the international research literature on contemporary Nordic childhoods in the context of fast-evolving technologies. It draws on the workshop program of the Nordic Research Network on Digital Childhoods funded by the Joint Committee for Nordic research councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOS-HS) during the years 2019–2021. Bringing together researchers from Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland, the book addresses pressing issues around children’s communication, learning and education in the digital age. The volume sheds light on cultural values, educational policies and conceptions of children and childhood, and child–media relationships inherent in Nordic societies. The book argues for the importance of understanding local cultures, values and communication practices that make up contemporary digital childhoods and extends current discourses on children’s screen time to bring in new insights about the nature of children’s digital engagement. This book will appeal to researchers, graduate students, educators and policy makers in the fields of childhood education, educational technology and communication

Children, Covid-19 and the media: A atudy of the challenges children are facing in the 2020 Coronavirus crisis

An international study in 42 countries inquired children’s perception of the corona crisis, their knowledge on COVID-19 and the role the media play in this