[Commlist] CFP: "Children and Media: Emerging Issues", Special Issue of Communications, The European Journal of Communication Research

Communications, The European Journal of Communication Research
https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/comm

Special issue: "Children and Media: Emerging Issues", planned for 
publication in August-September 2021


The role of media in the lives of children and youth has long been the 
subject of research attention within the media and communications 
scholarly community to the extent that there now exists a defined 
sub-discipline specialism dedicated to the subject, drawing on a full 
range of methodologies, research traditions and disciplinary formations. 
To a great extent, research attention has followed patterns of media and 
communications research more generally, focusing in particular on 
children as consumers and related patterns of consumption as well as 
contexts, effects and consequences of media use and media repertoires. 
The wider socio-political environment and the technological landscape of 
global internet connectivity as it impacts on children and youth have 
also received much attention, with reference to the shaping of policies 
that take children’s views and children’s lives into account. 
Consequently, with a growing evidence base and greater critical 
awareness of the heterogeneity of children’s and youth’s media 
experiences, the research agenda has moved from a generalized 
characterization of children and media as a fixed or holistic 
relationship to a much more nuanced and complex understanding of the 
mediated nature of life-worlds for children as for members of the adult 
world.

Against this background, the aim of this Special Issue of 
Communications, The European Journal of Communication Research, is to 
take stock of the emerging issues for children and media as we enter the 
second decade of the twenty-first century. Looking back on the research 
carried out over the last decade on the changing media environment for 
children, as well as children’s engagement with the internet and 
connected media, what are some of the key issues or challenges that are 
likely to persist in the coming years? In addition, what emerging issues 
for children and media are likely to warrant researchers’ attention, 
given the pace of technological evolution, and shifts in the regional 
and global economic structure of media production against the wider 
background of challenges facing sustainable development, climate action 
and global cohesion? Finally, what research methods are required (e.g., 
longitudinal, comparative, mixed, etc) to adequately address and to 
advance the field?

This Special Issue seeks to publish excellent recent research and 
invites submissions from both theoretical/conceptual and empirical 
perspectives on the emerging research agenda for media, children and youth.

Possible topics might include, but are not limited to the following:

•	Distinctive cultures of media consumption for children and youth
•	Children’s active agency and media engagement
•	Privacy, security and data protection issues and challenges with 
specific reference to children and youth
•	The datafication of children’s and youth’s lives
•	Digitization and provision for children’s media content
•	Social media in children’s lives (the role of influencers, sharenting, 
etc)
•	New media literacies (including information or data literacy)
•	Social mediation (parental, peer and teachers’ mediation)
•	Cross-cultural differences in children’s media access and use
•	Children’s rights in the digital environment
•	Gender differences in children’s media experiences
•	Digital health, welfare and well-being
•	Harmful online experiences and evidence-based solutions
•	Advances in research methodologies for children and youth
•	Policies, regulations and guidelines

Guidelines and instructions:

Abstracts of two pages should be sent to the guest editors: 
(brian.oneill /at/ TUDublin.ie) and (veronika.kalmus /at/ ut.ee) by March 15, 2020.

‘Communications’ allows for two formats: research articles (up to 8000 
words) and Research-in-Brief contributions (up to 4000 words). Please 
specify your preferred format in the abstract proposal. Further 
guidelines for articles in ‘Communications’ (e.g. the APA quotation 
style) can be found on the journal’s website: 
https://www.degruyter.com/view/supplement/s16134087_Instructions_for_Authors.pdf

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