[ecrea] cfp - Special Issue, Media and the Family - Journal of Children and Media

Journal of Children and Media

Special Issue, Volume 9 Issue 1, February 2015:

Media and the Family

Guest Editor: Kristen Harrison, Department of Communication Studies and 
Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan; (krishar /at/ umich.edu)



The child-media relationship is challenging to study comprehensively in 
part because much of it takes place within the context of the family 
home, intertwined with the daily rituals and interactions of family 
life. Research exploring children and media vis-à-vis the family context 
deepens our understanding of the significance of media in the daily 
lives of children, from birth until they leave the family home. In 1980 
James Lull published a typology of the social uses of television in the 
home, from structural (organization and regulation of family space and 
time) to relational (communication facilitation and avoidance, 
establishment of leisure norms, role enactment). A third of a century 
and the addition of several varieties of new in-home media later, there 
is a need to revisit what we know about the role of mass media in the 
family context. This special issue of the Journal of Children and Media 
is designed to give readers a heightened appreciation for the reciprocal 
relationships between the family context, media, and child/family 
interactions, habits, and rituals.

We seek empirical studies and theoretical essays that might include, for 
example, research on:

-        Characteristics and influences of the constant TV household 
and/or TV in children’s rooms

-        Background and foreground media influences on daily habits like 
sleeping, mealtimes, the completion of homework, and conversation

-        Parental mediation of child media use/exposure as it plays out 
in the home context

-        Parents, siblings, and other family members as co-audience members

-        The role of media in structuring family space and time; family 
rituals around media

-        Media as tools in the negotiation of family hierarchy (e.g., 
selection, punishment)

-        The role of media use in displacing/stimulating activities that 
ordinarily take place in or around the home (e.g., face-to-face 
conversation, outdoor play)

-        Differences in media characteristics and uses in the homes of 
diverse families of different socioeconomic means, 
cultural-religious-ethnic backgrounds, immigration status, or 
generational composition

Contributions to this special issue are welcomed from a wide range of 
theoretical and methodological approaches.  The guest editor is 
particularly interested in research that addresses contextual factors 
specific to the family home and the media-related activities that occur 
as part of everyday life. Both qualitative and quantitative data 
analytic approaches are invited.

Expressions of interest should be submitted to the guest editor as an 
e-mail attachment by no later than March 30, 2013. Please include a 
500-word abstract, full contact information, and a biographical note (up 
to 75 words) on each of the authors.  Authors of accepted abstracts will 
be notified by April 30, 2013 and will then be invited to submit a full 
paper to the guest editor.  Manuscripts should be no more than 8,000 
words, including notes and references, conform to APA style, and be 
submitted by September 30, 2013.  All papers will be subject to 
anonymous peer review following submission.


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Dr Cynthia Carter
Senior Lecturer
Cardiff School of Journalism,
Media and Cultural Studies
Cardiff University
Bute Building, King Edward VII Avenue
Cardiff, Wales
UK CF10 3NB
tel: (0)2920 876172
fax: (0)2920 238832
email: (cartercl /at/ cardiff.ac.uk)
website: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/jomec
Co-editor, Feminist Media Studies
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rfms



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