Journal of Children and Media

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Children and Media is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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Representation of refugee characters and experiences in children’s animated television: Missed opportunities and hopes19
Systematic review: Characteristics and outcomes of in-school digital media literacy interventions, 2010-202117
Predictors of children’s and young people’s digital engagement in informational, communication, and entertainment activities: findings from ten European countries17
What do parents really know about their child’s online behaviour? Discrepancies between parents and their children in Israel16
Toddlers and the Telly: A latent profile analysis of children’s television time and content and behavioral outcomes one year later in the U.S.15
Is this a return to normal? Longitudinal trajectories of child screen and problematic media use across the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States13
The next time is now! How children and media professionals must respond to Russia’s war in Ukraine13
“In your face!” Do family communication patterns influence U.S. tween’s imitation of disrespectful talk and behavior found in their favorite television shows?12
Parental digital mediation: Restriction and enablement during the COVID-19 lockdown among low SES parents in Lima, Peru11
The road to addiction (might be) paved with good intentions: Motives for social media use and psychological distress among early adolescents11
Characters’ realism, not familiarity, improved Chinese children’s learning from video11
Revealing the interplay between digital media use and affective well-being across developmental stages: Results of an experience sampling study with Austrian adolescents10
Integrating values into the social learning process: The occupational world in children’s television shows in Israel9
A bifactor model of U.S. parents’ attitudes regarding mediation for the digital age9
“My mom just wants to know where I am”: Estonian pre-teens’ perspectives on intimate surveillance by parents9
Socioeconomic disparities in Swiss children’s use of digital technology: A typological approach based on parental reports8
Exploring adolescents’ vulnerability and resilience to online risks in Trinidad and Tobago8
Thai teens’ privacy-related practices on Facebook8
Evolution or revolution? Reflecting on what JOCAM at 18 reveals about our field8
Digital ethics of care and digital citizenship in UK primary schools: Children as interviewers8
Under the influence of (alcohol)influencers? A qualitative study examining Belgian adolescents’ evaluations of alcohol-related Instagram images from influencers8
Deconstructing gender and media: A mixed methods study with U.S. early adolescents7
When screens are everywhere you look: Contemporary media ecologies in the United States7
Assessing the state of media literacy policy in U.S. K-12 schools6
U.S. adolescents’ daily social media use and well-being: Exploring the role of addiction-like social media use6
The paradox of play: How Dutch children develop digital literacy via offline engagement with digital media6
The youth social media literacy inventory: Development and validation using item response theory in the US5
Remote observation of hands-on problem solving among preschool children: Methodological challenges and solutions5
Understanding the Media in Young Children’s Lives: An Introduction to the Key Debates (1st ed.) Understanding the Media in Young Children’s Lives: A5
Respecting children`s rights in research ethics and research methods5
This picture does not portray reality: developing and testing a disclaimer for digitally enhanced pictures on social media appropriate for Austrian tweens and teens4
Do parental control tools fulfil family expectations for child protection? A rapid evidence review of the contexts and outcomes of use4
Research brief: early adolescents’ perceptions of the motivations and consequences of sharing passwords with friends in Belgium4
The interplay between sensationalism and scientific information framing: Examining the representation of screen time research online and on social media in the United States4
Parental mediation and problematic media use among U.S. children with disabilities and their non-disabled siblings during the COVID-19 pandemic4
Contesting the framing of digital risk: An analysis of Australian children’s experiences4
Parent problematic media use, child reactivity, and income: Context for parents’ use of media emotion regulation strategies in the United States4
Research brief: A quantitative content analysis to explore work value portrayals among characters in Belgian adolescents’ favorite TV series4
Children’s perceptions of scary news in Belgium: Examining parental mediation and consolation strategies from their perspective3
Moral clarity decreases as viewer age increases: a content analysis of the moral values and reinforcement cues depicted in popular U.S. children’s television3
Roadblocks and resistance: Digital mediation as a process of calibration among U.S. parents of adolescents3
COVID-19 and children’s screen time in Ceará, Brazil: a repeated cross-sectional survey3
Socio-technical practices of young children and parents in the home: a case study from Japan3
Do I have the right to share? Sharenting and psychological ownership of children’s information in the U.S.2
Gender and parent–adolescent differences in perceived media parenting: Evidence from a Chinese validation study2
“Consent Is Sexy”: exploring the portrayal of prosocial sexuality messages in youth-oriented series2
Programming girlhood: digital labor and the twenty-first century girl coder in the United States2
Problematic online gaming, subjective health complaints, and depression among adolescent gamers from the United States: the role of console-gaming aggression2
Unveiling a blind spot: The importance and challenges of exploring the digital lives of minor parents2
The home literacy and media environment of Saudi toddlers2
Histories of children’s television around the world2
Bridging the cultures of research and practice: The global evolution of Sesame Street ’s playful problem-solving curriculum2
How do Canadian parents evaluate numeracy content in math apps for young children?2
Parasocial romantic relationships: falling in love with media figures2
Teenagers’ reflections on media literacy initiatives at school and everyday media literacy discourses2
Development, validity, and reliability of the parent-adolescent communication about adolescents’ social media use scale (PACAS)2
Honesty, morality, and parasocial relationships in U.S. children’s media2
Parental mediation and the relational practices of negotiation and resistance: Insights from a qualitative panel study from Germany2
A research brief investigating educational television and U.S. children’s interest in science and world culture2
Analysis of the constructions of children and the internet in Kenya and Ghana2
Representations of LGBQ+ families in young children’s media1
Water woes: The effects of children’s science media on conservation knowledge, self-efficacy, and environmental worry in the United States of America (wc = 6489)1
Picture perfect during a pandemic? Body image concerns and depressive symptoms in U.S. adolescent girls during the COVID-19 lockdown1
Datafied Childhoods: data practices and imaginaries in children’s lives1
Coparenting of child media use and associations with child media limits and frequency of media use in the United States1
Princesses and paupers: a content analysis of socioeconomic status in animated Disney films1
Association between parent technology rules and loneliness among adolescents in the United States1
Examining profiles of U.S. children’s screen time and associations with academic skills1
Journal of Children and Media comes of age: An introduction to the special section1
Measuring digital well-being in everyday life among Slovenian adolescents: The Perceived Digital Well-Being in Adolescence Scale1
Teens and digital media: How do we move toward productive public discourse?1
Factors influencing young people’s news consumption in Switzerland during normative transitions: A mixed methods study1
Maternal factors and one-year-olds’ screen time: A cross-sectional study using birth cohort data from the Japan Environment and Children’s Study (JECS)1
A call to action for teens, sex, and media research: Recommendations for structural support, collaboration, and funding1
Screen media for Arab and European children: policy and production encounters in the multiplatform era1
Are cartoons pointless? Patterns of gesture and speech use in young children’s television programs in the U.S.1
Grandparents and children’s media use in the USA: Screen time, mediation practices, and relationship outcomes1
What can heroes and villains teach young audiences? A research brief investigating the values emphasized in family-rated Walt Disney films1
There is no right age! The search for age-appropriate ways to support children’s digital lives and rights1
Generative AI and children’s digital futures: New research challenges1
Age recommendations for children’s films: associations between advisories on a U.S. site and parents’ ratings1
The influence of sources in violent news on fright and worry responses of children in the Netherlands0
Representation in best-selling preschool storybook apps in the United States0
Accompany me – using a virtual learning companion to inform adolescents in Germany about everyday racism on social media0
Caught between autonomy and control: How Liberian teenagers perceive and navigate parental mediation of their mobile phone use0
Reassessing the risks: an updated content analysis of violence on U.S. children’s primetime television0
Coming of age, coming of gender: Studying socialization beyond the binary0
Through the (distorted) looking glass: Priorities for research with young people and social media in politically polarized times0
Conceptualizing U.S. educational television as preparation for future learning0
Making the best of app use: The impact of parent-child co-use of interactive media on children’s learning in the U.S0
Teens’ “right to be let alone”: Privacy under datafication0
Helping parents understand the content of video games: updating the ESRB rating system0
United States adolescents’ responses to sexual consent on television and the moderating role of anxious attachment0
Early vocabulary size in Argentinean toddlers: associations with home literacy and screen media exposure0
Educational television in school and Flemish preadolescents’ gender attitudes and beliefs: An experimental study0
Increased diversity, increased (dis)approval? Measuring parental attitudes towards LGBTQ characters in Flemish children’s television0
Current state of play: Children’s learning in the context of digital games0
How the COVID-19 shutdown revealed the effectiveness of a northern Nigerian educational media program0
Reducing impact to make an impact: Promoting sustainable lifestyles among youth0
Digital media uses and effects: The contributing roles of time0
U.S. parents’ scientific literacy and efficacy: Associations with children’s STEM media engagement0
Does digital media use increase risk of social-emotional delay for Chinese preschoolers?0
Trans young people and the media: transnormativity, agency, and social change0
Haptics and hotspots: creating usable and educational apps for children in the Netherlands0
‘Trust us! We know what we are doing!’ Parent-adolescent digital conflict in Australian families0
Preschoolers’ knowledge acquisition from German educational media: The impact of a training program fostering media sign literacy0
U.S. tweens’ reactions to unboxing videos: Effects of sponsorship disclosure and advertising training0
Domesticating data-generating technologies in Australian homes0
Handbook of adolescent digital media use and mental health Handbook of adolescent digital media use and mental health , edited by Jacq0
The role of socioeconomic status in U.S. children’s co-viewing television and family member relationship quality over time0
Multidimensional predictors of adolescents’ nonacademic digital media use in the United States: Insights from a bioecological perspective0
A media-based approach to build preschoolers’ playful problem-solving skills in South Africa: An evaluation of Takalani Sesame0
Child data citizens: How tech companies are profiling us from before birth0
Children and adolescents as news sources: research brief on voice and agency of minors in Swedish and Estonian journalistic regulative documents0
Exploring modalities and functions of social interaction initiated by toddlers in the U.S. during touchscreen play0
Promoting research-based parenting strategies through U.S. local television news: An experimental evaluation of the Positive Parenting Newsfeed project0
Learning letters, not language: The nature and quality of language and literacy apps used during remote learning with preschool children in the United States0
A call for the adoption of translational science principles in children’s media effects research0
Promoting a digital ethics of care: A digital cognitive interruption to facilitate UK adolescents’ empathy in online spaces0
Critical reflections on children and media research in India0
Testing an intervention to stimulate early adolescents’ news literacy application in the Netherlands: A classroom experiment0
The role of formative research in teaching playful problem solving on Sesame Street0
Sesame Street: Beyond 500
Love and sexual scripts: A content analysis of 19 Netflix teen series0
More cyber-ostracism, less prosocial behaviors? Longitudinal associations between cyber-ostracism and prosocial behaviors in Chinese adolescents0
Children making big money: The implications of Kidfluencing as new form of child labor0
Parental mediation and children’s digital well-being in family life in Norway0
Online digital platform use by adolescents in Kenya0
On sex, drugs, and alcohol: a mixed-method analysis of youth posts on social media in the United States0
Social media use and political cynicism among German youth: the role of information-orientation, exposure to extremist content, and online media literacy0
The role of character age and content type in US adolescents’ involvement with television characters engaging in drinking and sex-related behaviors0
Parenting for a digital future: how hopes and fears about technology shape children’s lives0
News exposure, depression, and PTSD symptoms among adolescents in the US: A case study of the Uvalde school shooting0
The impact of touchscreen interactivity on U.S. toddlers’ selective attention and learning from digital media0
Playfully building resilience: Dutch children’s risk-managing tactics in digital risky play0
Adolescents’ intentional and unintentional cyberhate exposure in Estonia, Finland, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Portugal: The role of perceived discrimination and digital literacy0
Won’t somebody think of the parents? Reevaluating the audience for children’s educational media0
Digital media and technology use by families with infants, toddlers, and young children: A scoping review and call for forward momentum0
Awareness of digital commercial profiling among adolescents in Finland and their perspectives on online targeted advertisements0
Exploring dialogic interactions in grandparent-grandchild conversations over video chat in the United States0
Longitudinal associations between parental screen time monitoring, screen time exposure, diet, and body mass index in young U.S. children0
The involved and responsible outsiders: Norwegian gamer-parents expanding and reinforcing contemporary norms of parenthood0
Educators as news mediators: Educational initiatives for war-related content in Israel0
Multilayered social media self-presentation practices: How German adolescents present themselves on Instagram and Snapchat0
Online prosocial behavior during adolescence in Belgium, Japan, Peru, and Spain: Cross-national and gender invariance and differences in four countries0
Filters and fillers: Belgian adolescents’ filter use on social media and the acceptance of cosmetic surgery0
The digital is kid stuff: making creative laborers for a precarious economy0
Masters of media: A longitudinal study of parental media efficacy, media monitoring, and child problematic media use across early childhood in the United States0
Theory to practice in the production and evaluation of educational media: Introduction to the special section0
Validation of the Italian version of the problematic media use measure long and short forms: A parent-report screening tool0
Transforming children’s perception of autism through the “superpower” of media representation in the U.S.0
Affordance and ambivalence in South African teenage girls’ digital dating practices0
Children’s digital experiences in Indian slums: Technologies, identities, and Jugaad0
Increasing knowledge about cognitive biases: An evaluation study of a radicalization prevention campaign targeted at European adolescents and young adults0
From TV to social media to “ambient” AI: Insights from 30 years of children’s media policy in the United States0
COMPUGIRLS: How Girls of Color Find and Define Themselves in the Digital Age0
Differentiated parental roles in Chinese adolescents’ internet access and usage0
Children’s documentaries: distance and ethics in European storytelling about the wider world0
“My brother teaches me everything”: Sibling mediation of young Israeli children’s media use0
Expressive citizenship: Youth, social media, and democracy0
Digital rights in digital exclusion settings: the experiences of institutionalised youth in Portuguese detention centres0
Malaysian Parents’ Perception of How Screen Time Affects their Children’s Language0
Problematic media use in early childhood: The role of parent-child relationships and parental wellbeing in families in New Zealand and the United States0
Grandsharenting: How grandparents in Belgium negotiate the sharing of personal information related to their grandchildren and engage in privacy management strategies on facebook0
Coming of age with, in and on social media: A critique of how politicians are responding to children’s social media engagement0
Longitudinal relations of screen time duration and content with executive function difficulties in South Korean children0
Coping styles among Chinese adolescents: The development and validation of a smartphone coping style scale0
Parent viewership of 13 reasons why and parental perceived knowledge about adolescent life: implications for parental efficacy among parents from the United States, the United Kingdom, Brazil, 0
Consent culture and teen films: Adolescent sexuality in U.S. movies0
Parents’ understandings of social media algorithms in children’s lives in England: Misunderstandings, parked understandings, transactional understandings and proactive understandings amidst dataficati0
Active playful learning as a robust, adaptable, culturally relevant pedagogy to foster children’s 21st century skills0
“I wonder, what if, let’s try”: Sesame Street ’s playful learning curriculum impacts children’s problem solving0
Childscape, mediascape: Children and media in India0
Applying a family stress model to understand U.S. families’ patterns of stress, media use, and child behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic0
Chinese children’s perspectives of long-distance familyhood via WeChat0
The social media (moral) panic this time: Why CAM scholars may need a more complex approach0
Towards building expertly inclusive methodology: A call to rebalance youth ethnic-racial identity measures0
How film stories can inspire character strengths: A qualitative study among Dutch children0
Social interaction in different contexts of screen-media activities: The case of Chinese-heritage children and caregivers in Taiwan0
It’s the will, not the skill: How malleability narratives affect Belgian adolescents’ academic development0
Next-gen childhoods0
No longer invisible, but still mistreated: Trans minors and the Spanish digital press (2006-2020)0
Romanian adolescents, fake news, and the third-person effect: a cross-sectional study0
From experiencing parental mediation as a child to practicing it as a parent: An exploratory study with Israeli mothers0
Media parenting in a pandemic: Understanding U.S. Parents’ motivations for parental mediation during the COVID-19 lockdown0
Parental cyberbullying through a global lens: children’s digital rights and social media policies0
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