Journal of Children and Media

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Children and Media is 1. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Youth in the crossfire: Polarization and fast-changing media environments48
Predictors of children’s and young people’s digital engagement in informational, communication, and entertainment activities: findings from ten European countries32
Representation of refugee characters and experiences in children’s animated television: Missed opportunities and hopes27
Correction26
Audio description as a tool for supporting emotion processing in autistic children: Results of an eye-tracking study on randomised Polish participants aged 5–1226
Going gray for gains: Exploring the role of monochrome displays in enhancing children’s well-being in India20
Systematic review: Characteristics and outcomes of in-school digital media literacy interventions, 2010-202120
Investigating the role of social media and news media in pro-environmental behaviors over time: An application of the general learning model among Belgian adolescents16
The road to addiction (might be) paved with good intentions: Motives for social media use and psychological distress among early adolescents15
“In your face!”: Do family communication patterns influence U.S. tween’s imitation of disrespectful talk and behavior found in their favorite television shows?15
Parental digital mediation: Restriction and enablement during the COVID-19 lockdown among low SES parents in Lima, Peru15
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 States15
Integrating values into the social learning process: The occupational world in children’s television shows in Israel14
Revealing the interplay between digital media use and affective well-being across developmental stages: Results of an experience sampling study with Austrian adolescents13
Characters’ realism, not familiarity, improved Chinese children’s learning from video13
A bifactor model of U.S. parents’ attitudes regarding mediation for the digital age12
Evolution or revolution? Reflecting on what JOCAM at 18 reveals about our field12
Under the influence of (alcohol)influencers? A qualitative study examining Belgian adolescents’ evaluations of alcohol-related Instagram images from influencers11
Deconstructing gender and media: A mixed methods study with U.S. early adolescents11
Let’s get critical! The effects of facilitated peer discussions on Dutch adolescents’ perceptions of risk behavior in entertainment media and real life11
Digital ethics of care and digital citizenship in UK primary schools: Children as interviewers11
Effect of co-engagement with a conversational agent on children’s video story comprehension and learning transfer: The role of children’s utterances11
Socioeconomic disparities in Swiss children’s use of digital technology: A typological approach based on parental reports10
When screens are everywhere you look: Contemporary media ecologies in the United States9
U.S. adolescents’ daily social media use and well-being: Exploring the role of addiction-like social media use8
Quantifying intimacy: How datafied parenting practices reconfigure intimacy-making in urban China8
Assessing the state of media literacy policy in U.S. K-12 schools8
Contesting the framing of digital risk: An analysis of Australian children’s experiences7
Understanding the Media in Young Children’s Lives: An Introduction to the Key Debates (1st ed.) Understanding the Media in Young Children’s Lives: A7
The paradox of play: How Dutch children develop digital literacy via offline engagement with digital media6
Remote observation of hands-on problem solving among preschool children: Methodological challenges and solutions6
Respecting children`s rights in research ethics and research methods6
The youth social media literacy inventory: Development and validation using item response theory in the US6
Social chatbots and minors: Challenges and opportunities to explore in future research5
The interplay between sensationalism and scientific information framing: Examining the representation of screen time research online and on social media in the United States5
Children’s perceptions of scary news in Belgium: Examining parental mediation and consolation strategies from their perspective5
Research brief: early adolescents’ perceptions of the motivations and consequences of sharing passwords with friends in Belgium5
Parent problematic media use, child reactivity, and income: Context for parents’ use of media emotion regulation strategies in the United States5
How do Canadian parents evaluate numeracy content in math apps for young children?5
Digital disconnection as a socially embedded practice: A 360° examination of children’s everyday negotiations across family, school, and peer contexts in Flanders, Belgium5
Empowering narratives: Understanding consent, personal boundaries, and body autonomy in US children’s picture books5
Do parental control tools fulfil family expectations for child protection? A rapid evidence review of the contexts and outcomes of use5
Research brief: A quantitative content analysis to explore work value portrayals among characters in Belgian adolescents’ favorite TV series5
Analysis of the constructions of children and the internet in Kenya and Ghana4
Parents talking algorithms: Navigating datafication and family life in digital societies,4
Roadblocks and resistance: Digital mediation as a process of calibration among U.S. parents of adolescents4
Parental mediation and the relational practices of negotiation and resistance: Insights from a qualitative panel study from Germany4
The state of parental mediation research: A review of Media parenting: Theory and research on parent, child, and media interactions4
A research brief investigating educational television and U.S. children’s interest in science and world culture4
Parent and clinician perspectives on the ethics of extended reality technologies for neurodivergent children in the U.S.4
Parental mediation and problematic media use among U.S. children with disabilities and their non-disabled siblings during the COVID-19 pandemic4
The politics of showing and not showing: Politicized media representations of war-affected children in the East and the West4
Bridging the cultures of research and practice: The global evolution of Sesame Street ’s playful problem-solving curriculum4
Journal of Children and Media comes of age: An introduction to the special section3
Assessing Belgian adolescents’ negative digital experiences in everyday life: The mundane digital harms scale3
U.S. Black parents’ hopes for representation in their children’s entertainment media: Intragroup variety and predictors of preferences3
Review of Digital Girlhoods (2025)3
Wait Until 8th ?: Mothers’ decision-making and management of children’s smartphones in the United States3
Development, validity, and reliability of the parent-adolescent communication about adolescents’ social media use scale (PACAS)3
Water woes: The effects of children’s science media on conservation knowledge, self-efficacy, and environmental worry in the United States of America3
Digital dilemmas of families with young children – An exploratory study on a day in the life of Australian children’s data3
Do I have the right to share? Sharenting and psychological ownership of children’s information in the U.S.3
The parent trap: The roles of parent status and pervasive ambiguity about gender in public opinion on transgender rights in the United States3
Are cartoons pointless? Patterns of gesture and speech use in young children’s television programs in the U.S.3
Mediated grandparenting: How smartphones are embedded in Chinese grandparents’ coparenting practices3
Representations of LGBQ+ families in young children’s media3
Teens and digital media: How do we move toward productive public discourse?3
Gender and parent–adolescent differences in perceived media parenting: Evidence from a Chinese validation study3
Histories of children’s television around the world3
Unveiling a blind spot: The importance and challenges of exploring the digital lives of minor parents3
Rules at home, rules online: Parental mediation and adolescents’ orientation toward social media community guidelines in the United States3
Digital parenting as internet governance: The case of China’s ‘Mum Jury’3
Datafied Childhoods: data practices and imaginaries in children’s lives3
Grandparents and children’s media use in the USA: Screen time, mediation practices, and relationship outcomes3
Digital inequities and well-being in middle childhood during COVID-19: Testing the third-level divide across 18 societies2
A call to action for teens, sex, and media research: Recommendations for structural support, collaboration, and funding2
Gender differences in Internet self-efficacy: Psychometric validation and cultural adaptation of the scale for Iranian adolescents2
What can heroes and villains teach young audiences? A research brief investigating the values emphasized in family-rated Walt Disney films2
Social media monitoring efficacy among parents of adolescents in the United States: A brief report2
Generative AI and children’s digital futures: New research challenges2
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)2
The social media (moral) panic this time: Why CAM scholars may need a more complex approach2
Does digital media use increase risk of social-emotional delay for Chinese preschoolers?2
Factors influencing young people’s news consumption in Switzerland during normative transitions: A mixed methods study2
Longitudinal relations between exposure to YouTube influencer videos and Dutch teenagers’ materialism and advertised product desire2
Measuring digital well-being in everyday life among Slovenian adolescents: The Perceived Digital Well-Being in Adolescence Scale2
Coparenting of child media use and associations with child media limits and frequency of media use in the United States2
Writing and producing for children and young audiences: Cases from Danish film and television2
Longitudinal associations between parental screen time monitoring, screen time exposure, diet, and body mass index in young U.S. children2
U.S. tweens’ reactions to unboxing videos: Effects of sponsorship disclosure and advertising training2
There is no right age! The search for age-appropriate ways to support children’s digital lives and rights2
Examining profiles of U.S. children’s screen time and associations with academic skills2
“I wonder, what if, let’s try”: Sesame Street ’s playful learning curriculum impacts children’s problem solving2
Association between parent technology rules and loneliness among adolescents in the United States2
How film stories can inspire character strengths: A qualitative study among Dutch children2
COMPUGIRLS: How Girls of Color Find and Define Themselves in the Digital Age1
Chatbots and childhood: A research brief on the associations between artificial intelligence use, problematic media use, and socioemotional problems in children from the United States1
A call for the adoption of translational science principles in children’s media effects research1
Who leads the digital way? Divergent roles of maternal and paternal educational attainment in shaping adolescents’ internet literacy and smartphone addiction1
The impact of familiarity with pedagogical agents on 3- and 5-year-old children’s learning of scientific knowledge1
“My brother teaches me everything”: Sibling mediation of young Israeli children’s media use1
“No screens before two”: How first-time Australian parents negotiate enduring digital media guidelines1
“I would say almost every single case has some sort of an internet connection”: Law enforcement and service provider insights on technology’s role in the commercial sexual exploitation of children and1
Preschoolers’ knowledge acquisition from German educational media: The impact of a training program fostering media sign literacy1
Exploring the effectiveness of mobile learning on early literacy skills of kindergarteners in Indonesia1
Mediatization and the migration imaginary of left-behind children in the Philippines1
Domesticating data-generating technologies in Australian homes1
Love and sexual scripts: A content analysis of 19 Netflix teen series1
Mediated family affection: A qualitative study of smart devices in parent-child interaction among rural Chinese left-behind families1
Representation in best-selling preschool storybook apps in the United States1
Trans young people and the media: transnormativity, agency, and social change1
Affordance and ambivalence in South African teenage girls’ digital dating practices1
The involved and responsible outsiders: Norwegian gamer-parents expanding and reinforcing contemporary norms of parenthood1
The promise and peril of social media: How context shapes online risks and digital literacy among adolescents in a semi-rural South African community1
Conceptualizing U.S. educational television as preparation for future learning1
The role of socioeconomic status in U.S. children’s co-viewing television and family member relationship quality over time1
Educators as news mediators: Educational initiatives for war-related content in Israel1
Digital media and technology use by families with infants, toddlers, and young children: A scoping review and call for forward momentum1
Testing an intervention to stimulate early adolescents’ news literacy application in the Netherlands: A classroom experiment1
Social interaction in different contexts of screen-media activities: The case of Chinese-heritage children and caregivers in Taiwan1
A media-based approach to build preschoolers’ playful problem-solving skills in South Africa: An evaluation of Takalani Sesame1
Development and validation of the parental media motivations (MEMO) scales for child and parent media use in the United States1
Online prosocial behavior during adolescence in Belgium, Japan, Peru, and Spain: Cross-national and gender invariance and differences in four countries1
Predictors of young children’s problematic screen media use in Aotearoa New Zealand: Testing the interactional theory of childhood problematic media use model1
Reducing impact to make an impact: Promoting sustainable lifestyles among youth1
Children and adolescents as news sources: research brief on voice and agency of minors in Swedish and Estonian journalistic regulative documents1
The digital is kid stuff: making creative laborers for a precarious economy1
Parental mediation and children’s digital well-being in family life in Norway1
Childscape, mediascape: Children and media in India1
From experiencing parental mediation as a child to practicing it as a parent: An exploratory study with Israeli mothers1
Exploring the relationship between screen exposure and self-regulation in early childhood: A meta-analysis1
Exploring children’s perspectives on parental surveillance in Belgium1
It’s the will, not the skill: How malleability narratives affect Belgian adolescents’ academic development1
Antecedent and intervening factors challenging mediation of children’s media use: A case study of grandmothers in Israel1
Identifying profiles of US tween and teen media users: A differential susceptibility approach to the 2019 and 2021 waves of the Common Sense Census1
Learning letters, not language: The nature and quality of language and literacy apps used during remote learning with preschool children in the United States1
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