TY - JOUR
T1 - Children's digital friendship practices during the first Covid-19 lockdown
AU - Johansen, Stine Liv
AU - Enemark Lundtofte, Thomas
PY - 2023/3
Y1 - 2023/3
N2 - During the Covid-19 pandemic, digital technologies have come to the forefront of most people'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.
AB - During the Covid-19 pandemic, digital technologies have come to the forefront of most people'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.
KW - Covid-19
KW - adolescents
KW - affordance
KW - agency
KW - digital media
KW - friendship
KW - young children
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85153951502&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.7146/mk.v38i73.130789
DO - 10.7146/mk.v38i73.130789
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0900-9671
VL - 38
SP - 171
EP - 189
JO - MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research
JF - MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research
IS - 73
ER -