OOIR: Observatory of International Research

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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Introducing the Social Media Literacy (SMILE) model with the case of the positivity bias on social media	51
How educational are “educational” apps for young children? App store content analysis using the Four Pillars of Learning framework	40
Social media literacy & adolescent social online behavior in Germany	36
In-home video chat for young children and their incarcerated parents	28
“Where are you?” An observational exploration of parental technoference in public places in the US and Israel	22
“Snaps”, “screenshots”, and self-blame: A qualitative study of image-based sexual abuse victimization among adolescent Danish girls	22
Front liners fighting fake news: global perspectives on mobilising young people as media literacy advocates	20
Who’s modeling STEM for kids? A character analysis of children’s STEM-focused television in the US	18
Developing evaluation tools for assessing the educational potential of apps for preschool children in the UK	16
“It’s really difficult. We’ve only got each other to talk to.” Monitoring, mediation, and good parenting in Australia in the digital age	15
A randomized controlled trial of an educational app to improve preschoolers’ emergent literacy skills	13
Children’s and adolescents’ digital access in Chile: the role of digital access modalities in digital uses and skills	13
Online and offline victimisation: a cluster analysis of adolescent victims of bullying and cyber-bullying in Chile	12
Teenagers’ reflections on media literacy initiatives at school and everyday media literacy discourses	11
“Everything’s technology now”: the role of technology in home- and school-based summer learning activities in Canada	11
Picture perfect during a pandemic? Body image concerns and depressive symptoms in U.S. adolescent girls during the COVID-19 lockdown	11
Review of feedback in edutainment games for preschoolers in the USA	10
This picture does not portray reality: developing and testing a disclaimer for digitally enhanced pictures on social media appropriate for Austrian tweens and teens	9
Kidfluencer exposure, materialism, and U.S. tweens’ purchase of sponsored products	8
Media use for children with disabilities in the United States during COVID-19	8
Type of screen time and academic achievement in children from Australia and New Zealand: interactions with socioeconomic status	8
Under the influence of (alcohol)influencers? A qualitative study examining Belgian adolescents’ evaluations of alcohol-related Instagram images from influencers	7
The mediating role of sympathy in the relationship between media violence and Dutch adolescents’ social behaviors	7
Moral clarity decreases as viewer age increases: a content analysis of the moral values and reinforcement cues depicted in popular U.S. children’s television	7
Parenting under pressure: stress is associated with mothers’ and fathers’ media parenting practices in Canada	7

Sleep deprived but socially connected: balancing the risks and benefits of adolescent screen time during COVID-19	7
The location of U.S. Latinidad:Stuck in the Middle, Disney, and the in-between ethnicity	6
News videos consumption in an age of new media: a comparison between adolescents and adults	6
Fortnite: a context for child development in the U.S. during COVID-19 (and beyond)	6
“Bringing you into the Zoom”: the power of authentic engagement in a time of crisis in the U.S.	6
Romanian adolescents, fake news, and the third-person effect: a cross-sectional study	6
Making the best of app use: The impact of parent-child co-use of interactive media on children’s learning in the U.S	6
Digital citizenship under lockdown: promoting the healthy use of technology for adolescents growing-up in Perú during COVID-19	5
My pandemic pedagogy playbook: a glimpse into higher education in the Dutch Zoom-room	5
U.S. parent perspectives on media guidance from pediatric autism professionals	5
The home literacy and media environment of Saudi toddlers	5
Social media use and political cynicism among German youth: the role of information-orientation, exposure to extremist content, and online media literacy	5
Filters and fillers: Belgian adolescents’ filter use on social media and the acceptance of cosmetic surgery	5
Is my kid that naive? Parents’ perceptions of their children’s attitudes towards advertising on smartphones in Chile	5
Narratives of online education in India: issues of equity, inclusion, and diversity	4
“Consent Is Sexy”: exploring the portrayal of prosocial sexuality messages in youth-oriented series	4
Educational ICT use outside school in the European Union: disparities by social origin, immigrant background, and gender	4
Inaccessible media during the COVID-19 crisis intersects with the language deprivation crisis for young deaf children in the U.S.	4
Does digital media use increase risk of social-emotional delay for Chinese preschoolers?	4
Malaysian Parents’ Perception of How Screen Time Affects their Children’s Language	4
“My mom just wants to know where I am”: Estonian pre-teens’ perspectives on intimate surveillance by parents	4
The privilege of childcare: an intersectional analysis of the COVID-19 U.S. childcare crisis and its implications for CAM research	4
Assessing the state of media literacy policy in U.S. K-12 schools	3
Like post-cataract surgery: what came into focus about children and media research during the pandemic	3
A bifactor model of U.S. parents’ attitudes regarding mediation for the digital age	3
Intelligent digital beings as children’s imaginary social companions	3
Trans young people and the media: transnormativity, agency, and social change	3
Reassessing the risks: an updated content analysis of violence on U.S. children’s primetime television	3
Our ‘stay home’ music video: the collision of academic research and family life during COVID-19 lockdown in Melbourne, Australia	3
The impact of touchscreen interactivity on U.S. toddlers’ selective attention and learning from digital media	3
Early vocabulary size in Argentinean toddlers: associations with home literacy and screen media exposure	3
Relational dimensions in poor children’s decisions to obtain a mobile phone – the case of Singapore	2
Problematic online gaming, subjective health complaints, and depression among adolescent gamers from the United States: the role of console-gaming aggression	2
The next time is now! How children and media professionals must respond to Russia’s war in Ukraine	2
What do parents really know about their child’s online behaviour? Discrepancies between parents and their children in Israel	2
Parents’ understandings of social media algorithms in children’s lives in England: Misunderstandings, parked understandings, transactional understandings and proactive understandings amidst dataficati	2
The crises of 2020: the effects of intersectionality and virality on marginalized youth in the U.S.	2
COVID-19 and children’s screen time in Ceará, Brazil: a repeated cross-sectional survey	2
Masters of media: A longitudinal study of parental media efficacy, media monitoring, and child problematic media use across early childhood in the United States	2
Parental cyberbullying through a global lens: children’s digital rights and social media policies	2
Programming girlhood: digital labor and the twenty-first century girl coder in the United States	2
Grandsharenting: How grandparents in Belgium negotiate the sharing of personal information related to their grandchildren and engage in privacy management strategies on facebook	2
Digital rights in digital exclusion settings: the experiences of institutionalised youth in Portuguese detention centres	2
Sesame Street: Beyond 50	2
There is a difference between being aware and being afraid: journalistic media literacy during the era of COVID-19	1
The collective challenges of color, COVID-19, and their convergence	1
No longer invisible, but still mistreated: Trans minors and the Spanish digital press (2006-2020)	1
Online digital platform use by adolescents in Kenya	1
Beyond home and school: community-based media and youth voice on pandemic life in the United States	1
Love and sexual scripts: A content analysis of 19 Netflix teen series	1

Conceptualizing U.S. educational television as preparation for future learning	1
Behind the policy frontline in the Netherlands during the Corona crisis	1
Playfully building resilience: Dutch children’s risk-managing tactics in digital risky play	1
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.	1
Representations of migration in U.K. and U.S. children’s picture books in the Trump and Brexit era	1
Blurring the boundaries between home and school: how videoconference-based schooling places American education’s cultural values at risk during COVID-19	1
Haptics and hotspots: creating usable and educational apps for children in the Netherlands	1
The media education manifesto	1
Digitally connected but personally disconnected? Crisis, digital media and the Australian family	1
Psychological, cultural and socio-structural factors associated with digital immersion in Chilean adolescents	1
Roadblocks and resistance: Digital mediation as a process of calibration among U.S. parents of adolescents	1
U.S. co-viewing during COVID	1
Branding, privacy, and identity: growing up in surveillance capitalism	1
Vocabulary-learning cues used on children’s bilingual programming	1
Free, appropriate, public, and educational? Screen-schooling U.S. children with disabilities during the 2020 pandemic	1
Transforming children’s perception of autism through the “superpower” of media representation in the U.S.	1
Respecting children`s rights in research ethics and research methods	1
The role of digital media in family life during the U.K. lockdown 2020	1
Princesses and paupers: a content analysis of socioeconomic status in animated Disney films	1
Parenting for a digital future: how hopes and fears about technology shape children’s lives	1
Parental mediation and problematic media use among U.S. children with disabilities and their non-disabled siblings during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Where do the children play…in a pandemic? Personal observations of U.S. children’s social learning of preventative health through embodied experiences while sheltering-in-place	1
Voices and images of hope: the rebirth of educational television in Ecuador in times of COVID-19	1
Overcoming pandemic social distancing challenges in research in Portugal and England	1
Connected to devices, disconnected from children: struggles of urban, dual-earning parents in India during COVID-19	1