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2025
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Abidin, Crystal, Claire Gartland, and Kathryn Grant. 2025. “TikTok & Children: TikTok Cultures Research Network & TikTok Fireside Chat.” International Journal of Cultural Studies 28(5): 1014–1027. DOI: 10.1177/13678779241307972.
Abidin, Crystal. 2025. Child Influencers, In Child Influencers: How Children Become Entangled with Social Media Fame. Polity Press
Abidin, Crystal. 2025. Family Influencers, In Child Influencers: How Children Become Entangled with Social Media Fame. Polity Press
Abidin, Crystal. 2025. KidTok, In Child Influencers: How Children Become Entangled with Social Media Fame. Polity Press
Agren, Y., Amery, P., & Danby, S. (2025). Children and Families: Everyday Digital Media Culture. Children & Society. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.70003
Alruthaya, J Mantei, S White, L Kervin, (2025), Evaluating Picturebook Complexity Through Children’s Eye Movement and Miscue Analysis. International Journal of Educational Methodology. https://doi.org/10.12973/ijem.11.3.297
Alruthaya, S, Mantei, J, White, S, & Kervin, L (2025). Moving towards a more comprehensive understanding of multimodal text complexity. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy.
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Altena, S., Ng, L. E. (Rebecca), & Hinze, M. (2025). Who are learning designers in post-pandemic Australasian universities? Higher Education Research and Development, 44(7), 1589–1607. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2482797
Amery, P., Danby, S., & Brereton, M. Weaving smartphones into mother–infant interaction: Digital disruptions or participatory possibilities? Children & Society, n/a(n/a). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12938
Amery, Philippa, Danby, Susan and Theobald, Maryanne. “Mothering in a digital age – a first-time mother’s account of using an infant tracking application” Text & Talk. https://doi.org/10.1515/text-2025-0031
Apps, T., Beckman, K., & Ng, R. (2025). Special Issue: Datafied by default: Examining the intersect between children’s digital rights and education. Computers and Education Open, 9, Article 100237. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeo.2024.100237
Archer (2025) Coming of age with, in and on social media: A critique of how politicians are responding to children’s social media engagement, Journal of Children and Media, 19:1, 58-64, DOI: 10.1080/17482798.2024.2438688
Atabey, A., Wilson, C., Manches, A., Hinrichs, U., Brewster, S. A., Ramirez, A. A., Perera, D., Kaufmann, D. B., Wang, G., Ploderer, B., Good, J., & Vines, J. (2025). Grasping Data: Exploring interdisciplinary approaches for investigating children’s interactions with their personal data. 24TH ANNUAL ACM INTERACTION DESIGN AND CHILDREN CONFERENCE, IDC 2025, 1249–1252. https://doi.org/10.1145/3713043.3735579
Barblett, L., Enriquez Watt, M., Collins, P. R., Boylan, F., Roberts, P., & Costello, L. (2025). Digital Provision, Educators’ Attitudes and Use in Early Learning Settings: Ready to Implement the EYLF V2.0? Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/18369391251376710
Biddle, SJH, Andriyani, FD., Thomas, G. (2025), Screens, health, and sedentary lifestyles: The need to recognise complexity, function, and context. Routledge Handbook of Digital Technologies in Sport, Exercise and Physical Education (pp. 36-51), CRC Press. DOI: 10.4324/9781003411758-4
Bild, E., Rossa, K. R., Edmed, S. L., Pattinson, C. L., Mann, D. L., Sullivan, K. A., Salmon, P. M., Gadam, S., Srinivasan, A. G., & Smith, S. S. (2025). Effects of Smartphone Use on Sleep and Mental Health in Young Adults: Going Beyond Self-Report. Depression and Anxiety, 2025(1), Article 3249012. https://doi.org/10.1155/da/3249012
Binks, N., Walsh, K., Hayixibayi, A., Eivers, A., & Kelly, A. B. (2025). Depression Symptom Trajectories Following Child Maltreatment: A Systematic Review of Longitudinal Studies from Adolescence to Young Adulthood. Trauma, Violence & Abuse, 15248380251361050. https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380251361050
Bourke, M., Harrison, Z., Fortnum, K., Thomas, G., O’Flaherty, M., Mulcahy, S. K., Gomersall, S. R., Alsop, T., Trost, S. G., Koplin, J. J., Bruijns, B. A., Phillips, S. M., Vanderloo, L. M., Tucker, P., Hesketh, K. D., Kwan, M. Y. W., & Cairney, J. (2025). Association between 24‐hour movement behaviors and adiposity in children and adolescents: A compositional data meta‐analysis. Obesity Reviews, 26(5), Article e13884. https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.13884
Bourke, M., Wang, H. F. W., McNaughton, S. A., Thomas, G., Firth, J., Trott, M., & Cairney, J. (2025). Clusters of healthy lifestyle behaviours are associated with symptoms of depression, anxiety, and psychological distress: A systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies. Clinical Psychology Review, 118, Article 102585. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2025.102585
Bunn, A. (2025). Educational Technology (EdTech) in Australian schools: A case for better practice. The University of New South Wales Law Journal, 48(3), 871–912. doi:10.3316/informit.T2025101300004500537155149
Carpendale, E. J., Green, M. J., Dix, K. L., Tzoumakis, S., Williams, K. E., White, S. L. J., Carr, V. J., & Laurens, K. R. (2025). An exploratory evaluation of universal social-emotional learning programs delivered during elementary school to Australian students. Journal of School Psychology, 110, Article 101447. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsp.2025.101447
Carpendale, E. J., Green, M. J., White, S. L. J., Williams, K. E., Tzoumakis, S., Watkeys, O. J., Harris, F., O’Hare, K., & Laurens, K. R. (2025). Middle childhood social-emotional competencies mediate the effects of school-entry literacy and numeracy skills on secondary school reading and numeracy attainment. Learning and Individual Differences, 124, Article 102778. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2025.102778
Carpendale, E. J., Green, M. J., White, S. L. J., Williams, K. E., Tzoumakis, S., Watkeys, O. J., Harris, F., O’Hare, K., Carr, V. J., & Laurens, K. R. (2025). Promoting effective transitions: Primary school social–emotional competencies predict secondary school reading and numeracy achievement. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 95(2), 496–512. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12735
Corser, K., Manolev, J., & Danby, S. (2025). Problematising ClassDojo as a digital tool for behaviour management and home-school communication. Learning, Media and Technology, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2025.2553184
da Cruz Pereira, G., Guedes B. L, Sampaio, I. V., Cavalcante, A. P. P., (2025), Crianças, adolescentes e telas no Brasil: enunciados de uma Consulta Pública sobre riscos e oportunidades dos usos de dispositivos digitais, in Sampaio, I. V., and Guedes, B., Children, adolescents, and youth in digital culture’, Pimenta Cultural, https://www.pimentacultural.com/en/livro/criancas-adolescentes-jovens/
Davey, R. J., Campbell, A., Beynon, A., Rasmussen, C. L., Hendry, D., Stearne, S., Harris, C., Straker, L., & Zabatiero, J. (2025). Parental Perspectives on the Use of Smartwatch Activity Trackers by Young Children: Qualitative Study. JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting, 8, e79851. https://doi.org/10.2196/79851
Davey, R. J., Zabatiero, J., Beynon, A., Wood, G., Sy, S., Rasmussen, C. L., Hendry, D., Stearne, S., Harris, C., Straker, L., & Campbell, A. (2025). It is Feasible for 3 to 5‐Year‐Old Children to Use Smartwatch Activity Trackers: A Systematic Review. ACTA PAEDIATRICA, 114(9), 2133–2147. https://doi.org/10.1111/apa.70137
Edmed, S. L., de Waal, L., Rossa, K. R., Pattinson, C. L., Salom, C., Gadam, S., Lorimer, N., & Smith, S. S. (2025). Sleep Health in People Experiencing Homelessness: A Scoping Review. Health & Social Care in the Community, 2025(1), Article 8766803. https://doi.org/10.1155/hsc/8766803
Edmed, S. L., Huda, M. M., Alam, M. A., Pattinson, C. L., Rossa, K. R., Shekari Soleimanloo, S., & Smith, S. S. (2025). Housing well-being and sleep in Australia. Sleep Health, 11(4), 506–514. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sleh.2025.02.001
Edwards, S., and Straker, L. (Eds) (2025). Young Children in Digital Society : Now and into the Future, Routledge.
Ekberg, S., Danby, S., Watts, J., Weinglass, L., Cooke, R., Nelson, M., Pitt, E., Ekberg, K., Bluebond-Langner, M., Langner, R., Bradford, N., Yates, P., Delaney, A., Duffield, J., Orr, A., Fleming, S., Scully, M., Ryan, S., & Herbert, A. (2025). Involving Nonspeaking and Speaking Children in Clinical Encounters: An Observational Study of Real-World Clinical Encounters. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpc.70253
Fielding, K., Murcia, K., Dobson, M., & Lowe, G. (2025). Navigating consent and dissent in early childhood research: An Australian perspective. Issues in Educational Research, 35(1), 142–159.
Fillmore, N., Shay, M., Sarra, G., & Danby, S. (2026). Researcher cultural capability for Indigenous research: a meta-narrative review. Higher Education Research and Development, 45(1), 100–117. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2025.2541645
Gray, C., Paris, L., Lowe, G., Perry, A., & Warwick, L. (2025). Belongingness, trust and connection: Arts teachers in Western Australian schools create safe learning spaces. Issues in Educational Research, 35(2), 590–610.
Harverson J, Anglim J, Paatsch L, Horwood S. Ecological Momentary Assessment Study of Digital Technology Use and Child Well-Being. JAMA Pediatr. 2025 Nov 17:e254709. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2025.4709. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 41247750; PMCID: PMC12624454.
Harverson J, Zomer C, Chu C, Horwood S, Horwood M, Nicholas M, Paatsch L, 2025, Children’s Engagement with Digital Technology in Educational Spaces: A Scoping Review
Computers & Education 240:1-22, doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2025.105454
Harverson, J., Paatsch, L., Anglim, J., & Horwood, S. (2025). Digital Technology Use and Well-being in Young Children: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Computers in Human Behavior, 108660. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.CHB.2025.108660
Hayes, N., White, S.L.J., Berthelsen, D., Burley, L., & Cliff, D. Longitudinal associations between child, parenting, home and neighbourhood factors and children’s screen time through 4 to 7 years of age. BMC Public Health 25, 1623 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-22866-2
Healy, G. N., Melendez-Calderon, A., Kaab, S., Bongers, N., Heseltine, K. A., Yue, C. H., Thomas, G., & Clark, B. K. (2025). Development, validation, acceptability and usability of a device-based system to measure sit-stand desk usage. Applied Ergonomics, 126, Article 104490. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2025.104490
Howard, S. J., Hayes, N., Mallawaarachchi, S., Johnson, D., Neilsen-Hewett, C., Mackenzie, J., Bentley, L. A., & White, S. L. J. (2025). A meta-analysis of self-regulation and digital recreation from birth to adolescence. Computers in Human Behavior, 163, Article 108472. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2024.108472
Kervin, L., Mantei, J., Rivera, M. C. S., & Peach, L. (2025). Looking more closely at the Children’s Technology Play Space: Bringing space, bodies, materials and knowing together through investigation with microscopes. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 25(4), 1011-1026. https://doi.org/10.1177/14687984251380651 (Original work published 2025)
Kilgariff, L. Jessica Mantei, & Lisa Kervin. (2025). What is critical digital literacy: And how can we work with children in their first years of school to develop it? Practical Literacy, 30(1), 32–35.10.3316/informit.T2025021000003590075112627
Kilgariff, L., Kervin, L., & Mantei, J. (2025). Exploring young children’s research practices as they engage as research partners. International Journal of Qualitative Methods. DOI 10.1177/16094069251371798
Langton, K., & Ng, R. (2025). “Tracking the Trackers” of children’s first personal data in mobile applications: Using static analysis and privacy policy evaluation to explore the data-sharing capabilities and practices of baby apps. In B. Tag, S. Yoo, H. Davis, M. Boden, N. Pantidi, J. Fredericks, J. Rahman, J. Andres, H. Zhu, J. Harman, T. T. Minh Tran, T. Hoang, M. Hoggenmueller, & G. Caldwell (Eds.), OZCHI 2025 – Proceedings of the 37th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 845–859). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3764687.3769936
Langton, K., Jayakumar, E., See, H. W., Archer, C., & Woodley, G. (2025). Balancing digital presents and futures: understanding first-time parents’ practices, plans and perceptions of ‘quality’ and risk in young children’s digital engagements. Media International Australia, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X251330298
Langton, K., Ng., R., 2025, “Tracking the Trackers” of children’s first personal data in mobile applications: Using static analysis and privacy policy evaluation to explore the data-sharing capabilities and practices of baby apps, OZCHI ’25: Proceedings of the 37th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction Pages 845 – 859 https://doi.org/10.1145/3764687.3769936
Leaver, T., & Srdarov, S. (2025). Generative AI and Children’s Digital Futures: New Research Challenges. Journal of Children and Media, 19(1), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2024.2438679
Leaver, T., and Srdarov, S., (2025) ‘Generative Imaginaries of Australia: How Generative AI Tools Visualize Australia and Australianness’, in Philipp Hacker (ed.), Oxford Intersections: AI in Society
Lee, Jin, Crystal Abidin, and Tama Leaver. 2025. “TikTok and Children: An Introduction.” International Journal of Cultural Studies 28(5): 893–906. DOI: 10.1177/13678779251340419.
Levido, A., Matthews, S., Amery, P., & Cross, E. (2025). Parent Perspectives of Digital Media for Learning at Home. Children & Society. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12979
Levido, A., Rodriguez, A., Dezuanni, M., & Woods, A. (2025). Developing children’s algorithmic literacies through curatorship as media literacy. Learning, Media and Technology, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2025.2495603
Livingstone, S., Sefton-Green, J. (2025). The Platformization of the Family. In: Sefton-Green, J., Mannell, K., Erstad, O. (eds) The Platformization of the Family. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-74881-3_2
Mallawaarachchi, S. R., Anglim, J., & Horwood, S. (2025). Types and contexts of child mobile screen use and associations with early childhood behavior. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 70, 274–286. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2024.10.010
Mallawaarachchi, S., Cliff, D. P., Neilsen-Hewett, C., White, S. L., Radesky, J., Horwood, S., .Kervin, L. & Howard, S. J. (2025). Effects of Persuasive App Design and Self‐Regulation on Young Children’s Digital Disengagement. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 2025(1), 8187768. DOI 10.1155/hbe2/8187768
Mannell, K., Boyle, E., Kennedy, J., & Holcombe-James, I. (2025). ‘Taking the router shopping’: How low-income families experience, negotiate, and enact digital dis/connections. New Media & Society, 27(7), 4109–4126. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448241234941
Mannell, K., Hegna, K., Stoilova, M. (2025). The Home as a Site of Platformization. In: Sefton-Green, J., Mannell, K., Erstad, O. (eds) The Platformization of the Family. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-74881-3_3
Mannell, K., Sefton-Green, J., Erstad, O. (2025). Conclusion: Towards Further Research into the Platformization of the Family. In: Sefton-Green, J., Mannell, K., Erstad, O. (eds) The Platformization of the Family. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-74881-3_6
Mannell, Kate, Zhao, Xinyu, Sefton-Green, Julian, & Dezuanni, Michael (2025) What Australian research offers the study of digital childhoods: A scoping review of digital media use by families with young children. Media International Australia, Article number: 1329878X251337831. DOI 10.1177/1329878X251337831
Mantei, J. and Kervin, L. (2025), “The pleasure and power of playful problem solving through storytelling”, Qualitative Research Journal, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/QRJ-09-2024-0196
Marshall, A., Michael Dezuanni, Aimee Hourigan, Defining digital mentoring to advance adult digital inclusion, Community Development Journal, 2025;, bsaf021, https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsaf021
Maslin, K., & Murcia, K. “It’s Science Everywhere!”: Affordances of Online Science Shows and Workshops for Children. Journal of Museum Education, 1-13. DOI 10.1080/10598650.2025.2572233
Matthews, M. Nicholas, L. Kervin, L. Paatsch, and P. Wyeth. 2025. Computational thinking tools for early years education: a design study. Educ Inf Technol. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-025-13468-x
Matthews, M. Nicholas, L. Kervin, L. Paatsch, and P. Wyeth. Social and Curious: Lessons in Designing Digital Manipulatives for Young Children. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2025.100725
Matthews, M. Nicholas, L. Paatsch, L. Kervin, P. Wyeth. 2025. Embeddables: Designing Physical-Digital Manipulatives for Young Children, in Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, Bordeaux, France, March 2025, https://doi.org/10.1145/3689050.3705972
Matthews, M. Nicholas, L. Paatsch, L. Kervin, P. Wyeth. 2025. Wobblies: Designing Intentional Playthings with Young Children, in Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, Bordeaux, France, March 2025, https://doi.org/10.1145/3689050.3705972
Matthews, S., Danby, S., Westwood, S., Theobald, M., & Wyeth, P. (2025). Designing for Transactional Moments: Features of Tools for Child-centred Speech Language Teletherapy. In K. Yatani, X. Ding, M. Chetty, V. Evers, N. Yamashita, B. Lee, & P. Toups-Dugas (Eds.), CHI 2025 – Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (No. 646). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713394
Matthews, S., Kaiser, K., Lum, R., Moran, G., Richards, M., Bock, S., Matthews, B., & Wiles, J. (2025). Unearthing the latent assumptions inscribed into language tools: the cross-cultural benefits of applying a reflexive lens in co-design. CoDesign, 21(1), 1–33. https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2024.2339500
Matthews, S., Nicholas, M., Paatsch, L., Kervin, L., & Wyeth, P. (2025). Social and curious: Lessons in designing digital manipulatives for young children. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 44, Article 100725. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2025.100725
Mavilidi, M. F., Vazou, S., Lubans, D. R., Robinson, K., Woods, A. J., Benzing, V., Anzeneder, S., Owen, K. B., Álvarez-Bueno, C., Wade, L., Burley, J., Thomas, G., Okely, A. D., & Pesce, C. (2025). How physical activity context relates to cognition across the lifespan: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin, 151(5), 544–579
Mavilidi, M. F., Zou, L., Li, J., Cliff, D. P., Pesce, C., Abdeta, C., Paas, F., & Howard, S. J. (2025). Adherence to 24-hour movement guidelines: Cognitive effects in Australian preschoolers. Mental Health and Physical Activity, 29, Article 100712. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mhpa.2025.100712
Mavilidi, M.F., Zou, L., Li, J., Cliff, D., Abdeta, C., Pesce, C., Paas, F., & Howard, S. J. (2025). Longitudinal associations between adherence to 24-hour movement behavior guidelines and self-regulation, executive function, and school readiness in preschool children. Mental Health & Physical Activity. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mhpa.2025.100712
Molster, C., Irvine, J., Devine, A., Wallace, R., Barblett, L. and Costello, L. (2025) Digital tools to promote or measure health literacy in children aged 3-5 years: scoping review. Health Promotion International , DOI 10.1093/heapro/daaf093
Murcia, K., M. Dobson, G. Aranda, T. Wijesinghe, E. Cross, and S. Mennell. (2025). Starting Early: Ethics and AI in Education. In Teaching with Artificial Intelligence A Guide for Primary and Elementary Educators, 19-31
Murcia. K., Mennell, S., Cross, E., Maslin, K. (2025). AI literacy and early years education: Teacher competencies for critical and creative learning design integrating AI and Smart Coding Tools. Teaching with Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Early Educators. Unlocking Potential: AI Applications in Preschool and Primary Schools. Springer Series Advances in Artificial Intelligence in Education.
Ng, R., Rogerson, C., & Bennett, S. (2025). Digital dilemmas of families with young children – An exploratory study on a day in the life of Australian children’s data. Journal of Children and Media, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2025.2589398
Nicholas, M., Rawolle, S., & Skourdoumbis, A. (2025). Teacher agency and student diversity in reading education: What do Australian teachers think?: Teacher agency and student diversity in reading education. Australian Educational Researcher, 52(5), 3263–3285. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-025-00851-3
Nicholas, Maria; Rouse, Elizabeth; Rawolle, Shaun (2025). International Comparisons and Reading Education Policies. Deakin University. Chapter. https://hdl.handle.net/10779/DRO/DU:29367689.v2
Ólafsdóttir, S. M., Danby, S., & Theobald, M. (2025). Making connections with children: children’s rights, ethics and research methods. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 33(5), 746–759. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350293X.2024.2437777
Om, C., Vella, K., Dema, T., Ploderer, B., Li, Y., Murcia, K., & Brereton, M. (2025). Designing for Children’s Nature Play and Place Attachment: An Observational Study in Early Childhood Education Centre. In B. Tag, S. Yoo, H. Davis, M. Boden, N. Pantidi, J. Fredericks, J. Rahman, J. Andres, H. Zhu, J. Harman, T. T. Minh Tran, T. Hoang, M. Hoggenmueller, & G. Caldwell (Eds.), OZCHI 2025 – Proceedings of the 37th Australian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 455–468). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3764687.3764721
Om, Chimi, Vella, Kellie, Dema, Tshering, Ploderer, Bernd, Murcia, Karen, & Brereton, Margot (2025) Storying-Roleplay: A Co-design Method Supporting Young Children to Understand Environmental Problems. In IDC ’25: Proceedings of the 24th Interaction Design and Children. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), United States of America, pp. 465-478. DOI 10.1145/3713043.3728842
Owen, S., Dobson, M., Baca., E., Heseltine, L., and Owen, A. (2025). The Power of the Intimate: Autoethnographic Reflections on Intimate Connections with Taylor Swift, In McCann, H., Faichney, E., Trealease, R., & Whatman, E. (Eds.). Taylor Swift : culture, capital, & critique. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003509271
Paatsch, L., Chu, C., Zomer, C., Horwood, S., Nicholas, M., Harverson, J., Thomson, M., Mogensen, C., Horwood, M., & Evely, C. (2025). Exploring children’s meaning-making as they interact with digital artworks through play at a museum exhibition. Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 25(4), 968-992. https://doi.org/10.1177/14687984251380090 (Original work published 2025)
Pangrazio, L., & Zomer, C. (2025). Domesticating data-generating technologies in Australian homes. Journal of Children and Media, 19(4), 735–754. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2025.2464833
Pangrazio, L., Langton, K., Siibak, A. (2025). How the Family Makes Itself: The Platformization of Parenting in Early Childhood. In: Sefton-Green, J., Mannell, K., Erstad, O. (eds) The Platformization of the Family. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-74881-3_4
Roberts, P., Boylan, F., Collins, P. R., & Barblett, L. (2025). Co-Designing Health-Related Digital Tools with Children: A Scoping Review of Current Practice. Education Sciences, 15(6), 671. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci15060671
Scott, F., Chesworth, L., Kontovourki, S., Murcia, K., Murris, K., Balnaves, K., Bannister, C., Christofi, A. M., Kuria, D., Maditsi, K., Menning, S. F., Neokleous, T., Peers, J., Roscoe, S., Samuels, V., Scott, C., Caetano-Silva, G., Tsoukka, A., Wang, Y., … Trzebiatowski, C. (2025). ‘I just go headbutt a tree or something’: Children’s contextualised digital play drivers and subjective well-being in the United Kingdom, South Africa, Australia and Cyprus. New Media & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251406245
Sefton-Green, J., & Zhao, X. (2025). Children, media, and the state: envisioning a good childhood in a good society. Communication Research and Practice, 11(3), 434–440. https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2025.2553421
Sefton-Green, J., Livingstone, S., Mannell, K., Erstad, O. (2025). Introduction. In: Sefton-Green, J., Mannell, K., Erstad, O. (eds) The Platformization of the Family. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-74881-3_1
Shay, M., & Sarra, G. (2025). Strengths-Based Approaches in Indigenous Education : Research and Practice. (1st ed.). Taylor & Francis Group. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/qut/detail.action?docID=32260384
Silva, I., Danby, S., & Saggers, B. (2025). Exploring Young Autistic Children’s Family and Independent Digital Experiences at Home. Children & Society. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12987
Sim, S., Zabatiero, J., Bear, N., Beynon, A., Thomas, G., Srinivasjois, R., Jongeling, B., Silva, D., & Straker, L. (2025) Longitudinal associations between maternal and child screen use at 1 year of age and child behaviour and development at 3 years of age. BMC Pediatr 25, 791 DOI: 10.1186/s12887-025-05701-w.
Spina, N., Spooner-Lane, R., Seager, E., Gallagher, J., & Danby, S. (2025). Datafication in the First Year of Schooling. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, Article 18369391251358010. https://doi.org/10.1177/18369391251358010
Stearne SM, Beynon A, Lund Rasmussen C, Zabatiero J, Paatsch L, Johnson D, Straker L, Campbell A. (2025) Augmented Reality Playgrounds to Promote Physical Activity in Young Children: Feasibility Study Using a Repeated Measures Laboratory Design. JMIR Pediatr Parent. 8:e75302. doi: 10.2196/75302. PMID: 41066617; PMCID: PMC12510435.
Stevenson, K. J., See, H. W., & Jayakumar, E. (2025). Guiding principles for stakeholder engagement in supporting children’s digital citizenship: the 4A model. Communication Research and Practice, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2025.2567091
Wang, H. F. W., Smith, S. S., O’Flaherty, M., Trost, S. G., Thomas, G., Walker, J. L., Fortnum, K., McNaughton, S., Cairney, J., & Bourke, M. (2025). Associations Between Screen Time, Sleep Quality, Diet Quality and Food Selectivity Among School-Aged Autistic Children. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-025-07064-8
Wilson, C., Manches, A., Atabey, A., Hinrichs, U., Brewster, S. A., Ploderer, B., & Wang, G. (2025). Grasping Data: Mapping Out HCI Methods for Children and Young People’s Interactions with their Personal Data. In N. Yamashita, K. Yatani, X. Ding, & V. Evers (Eds.), CHI EA 2025 – Extended Abstracts of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (No. 784). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706599.3706726
Wilson, S., Murcia, K., & Leaver, T. (2025). ‘Switch that off!’: the influence of digital parenting and mediation practices on young children’s engagement with digital technologies in the home. Early Child Development and Care, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004430.2025.2518300
Woods, A. (2025). Critical conversations: the importance of educators and families talking, reading and writing with young literacy learners. Qualitative Research Journal, 25(1), 109–115. https://doi.org/10.1108/QRJ-10-2024-0239
Xu, J., & Zhao, X. (2025). Digital parenting as internet governance: The case of China’s ‘Mum Jury.’ Journal of Children and Media, 19(3), 673–678. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2025.2535801
Zgambo M, Anyango E, Arabiat DH, Ngune I, Mörelius E, Zhang M, Whitehead LC. Effect of Digital Safety Interventions on Parental Practices in Safeguarding Children’s Digital Activities: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. JMIR Pediatr Parent. 2025 Oct 10;8:e70745. doi: 10.2196/70745.
Zhao, X. (2025). Overseas Chinese parent wanghong on Douyin: Discursive constructions of diasporic parenthood. Global Media and China, 10(3), 294–311. https://doi.org/10.1177/205943642412780
Zomer, C., Zhao, X., De La Cruz, M., & Sefton-Green, J. (2025). Edutainment 2.0 or eduwashing? The production of educational legitimacy for children’s apps. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2025.2599750
Zou, L., Zhang, Z., Mavilidi, M., Chen, Y., Herold, F., Ouwehand, K., & Paas, F. (2025). The synergy of embodied cognition and cognitive load theory for optimized learning. Nature Human Behaviour, 9(5), 877–885. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02152-2
2024
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Apps, T., Beckman, K., Ng, R., (2024) Datafied by default: Examining the intersect between children’s digital rights and education, Computers and Education Open, 10.1016/j.caeo.2024.100237
Ashleigh-Rae O’Neill, Sarah Matthews, Janet Wiles, and Ben Matthews. 2024. ‘Socialifying’ the design of language learning applications for classroom use. In Companion Publication of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’24 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 279–283. https://doi.org/10.1145/3656156.3663735
Baldry, Moya Kate, Happa, Jassim, Steed, Anthony, Smith, Simon, and Glencross, Mashhuda (2024). From Embodied Abuse to Mass Disruption : Generative, Inter-Reality Threats in Social, Mixed-Reality Platforms. Digital Threats: Research and Practice . https://doi.org/10.1145/3696015
Beckman, K., Apps, T. & Bennett, S. (2024). Schoolfeeds: A study of principals’ governance of school social media pages and students’ data, privacy and treatment, Computers & Education Open, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeo.2024.100213
Berg V, Arabiat D, Morelius E, Kervin L, Zgambo M, Robinson S, Jenkins M, Whitehead L, 2024, Young Children and the Creation of a Digital Identity on Social Networking Sites: Scoping Review, JMIR Pediatr Parent;7:e54414, doi: 10.2196/54414
Beynon A, Hendry D, Lund Rasmussen C, Rohl AL, Eynon R, Thomas G, Stearne S, Campbell A, Harris C, Zabatiero J, et al. 2024, Measurement Method Options to Investigate Digital Screen Technology Use by Children and Adolescents: A Narrative Review. Children, 11(7):754. https://doi.org/10.3390/children11070754
Beynon AM, Straker LM, Lund Rasmussen C, Hendry D, Stearne SM, Zubrick SR, Jongeling B, Harris C, Silva D, Zabatiero J. Influence of maternal and infant technology use and other family factors on infant development. BMC Pediatr. 2024 Oct 30;24(1):690. doi: 10.1186/s12887-024-05165-4. PMID: 39478500; PMCID: PMC11524025.
Bunn, A., and Dobson, M., (2024), Exploring researchers’ perspectives and experiences of digital childhoods research in schools.” Computers and Education Open (Special Issue: Datified by Default), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeo.2024.100186
Bunn, A., Dobson, M., 2024, Exploring researchers’ perspectives and experiences of digital childhoods research in schools, Computers and Education Open, Volume 6, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeo.2024.100186
Chu,C, Paatsch, L, Kervin, L, Edwards, S., 2024, Digital play in the early years: A systematic review, International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, Volume 40, 100652, ISSN 2212-8689, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2024.100652.
Coulter, N., Garcia-Gomez, D. C., Healy, S., Jeong, H.-S., Mauk, M., Sheppard, L. C., Willett, R., & Zhao, X. (2024). Family Media Practices in a Post-Pandemic Future: Conversations From a Transglobal Research Project. Children & Society. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12931
Green, L. , Haddon, L. , Livingstone, S. , O’Neill, B. , Stevenson, K.J. , & Holloway, D. (2024). Digital media use in early childhood: Birth to six. London,: Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350120303
Healy, S.. Willett, R., and Zhao, X. (2024), Temporarilities and changing understandings of children’s use of media: Australia, China, and the United States in Willett, R., & Zhao, X (eds), Children, Media, and Pandemic Parenting : Family Life in Uncertain Times. (1st ed.). Taylor & Francis Group.
Hendry D, Straker L, Bourne B, Coshan S, Kumwembe N, McCarthy C, et al. Parental practices and perspectives on health and digital technology use information seeking for children aged 0–36 months. Health Promot J Austral. 2024; 35(4): 1174–1183. https://doi.org/10.1002/hpja.849
Hood, R., Zabatiero, J., Silva, D., Zubrick, S. R., & Straker, L. (2023). “It helps and it doesn’t help”: maternal perspectives on how the use of smartphones and tablet computers influences parent-infant attachment. Ergonomics, 67(2), 148–167. https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139.2023.2212148
Howard, S. J., Hayes, N., Mallawaarachchi, S., Johnson, D., Neilsen-Hewett, C., MacKenzie, J., Bentley, L. & White, S. L. (2024). A Meta-Analysis of Self-Regulation and Digital Recreation from Birth to Adolescence. Computers in Human Behavior, 108472. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2024.108472
Jefferson S, Gray C, Lowe G. Comfort in the Role: The Core of Positive Veteran Teachers. Education Sciences. 2024; 14(9):998. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14090998
Kammermann, B., Turkay, S., Johnson, D., & Tobin, S. J. (2024). Virtual Rewards, Real World Impact? Investigating the Prosocial Effects of Videogame Reward Salience. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2024.2425730
Kennedy, J., Holcombe-James, I., Mannell, K., & Boyle, E. (2024). How to Make Affordability-Focused Digital Inclusion Interventions More Effective: Lessons from the Connected Students Program. In S. Yates & E. Carmi (Eds.), Digital Inclusion: International Policy and Research (pp. 111-128). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Kervin, L., and Mantei, J., (2024). Gaming for literacy learning, Flint, A. S., Vicars, M., Muscat, A., Bennet, M., Ewing, R., Shaw, K., Kervin, L., Mantei, J., Iorio, J., & Hamm, C (Eds), Literacy in Australia : Pedagogies for Engagement. (4th ed.). John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated.
Kervin, L., and Mantei, J., (2024) Young children creating multimodal stories in their home, school, and digital spaces, Mackenzie, N. M., & Scull, J. (Eds.). Understanding and supporting young writers from birth to 8 (2nd Edition). Routledge.
Lee, . J. (2025). EXPLORING THE NEXUS OF K-POP DANCE CHALLENGES: CHILDREN’S K-POP DREAM, INTERNET STARDOM, AND CUTE LABOR IN THE EVOLVING CULTURE INDUSTRY. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research. https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2024i0.13983
Lee, J., Leaver, T., & Abidin, C. (2024). Child idols in South Korea and beyond: Manufacturing young stars at the intersection of the K-pop and influencer industries. New Media & Society, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448241295718
Levido, . A., Dezuanni, M., Woods, A., Leaver, T., Rodriguez, A., MacKenzie, J., … Scott, F. (2025). THE DIGITAL CHILDHOOD INDUSTRY. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research. https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2024i0.14092
Levido, A. (2024). Media literacy and the concept of ‘technologies’ in primary school classrooms: moving beyond technical skills, Learning, Media and Technology, DOI: 10.1080/17439884.2024.2308609
Lund Rasmussen, C.; Hendry, D.; Thomas, G.; Beynon, A.; Stearne, S.M.; Zabatiero, J.; Davey, P.; Roslyng Larsen, J.; Rohl, A.L.; Straker, L.; et al. Evaluation of the ActiMotus Software to Accurately Classify Postures and Movements in Children Aged 3–14. Sensors 2024, 24, 6705. https://doi.org/10.3390/s24206705
MacKenzie, J. E., Klarkowski, M., Horton, E. M., Theobald, M., Danby, S., Kervin, L.,. Barrie, L., Amery, P. K., Andradi, M., Smith, S., Mandryk, R. L., and Johnson, D., 2024. Using Psychophysiological Data to Facilitate Reflective Conversations with Children about their Player Experiences. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 8, CHI PLAY, Article 347, 33 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3677112
Mallawaarachchi, S. R., Anglim, J., & Horwood, S. (2025). Types and contexts of child mobile screen use and associations with early childhood behavior. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 70, 274-286.
Mallawaarachchi, S., Burley, J., Mavilidi, M., Howard, S. J., Straker, L. M., Kervin, L., Staton, S., Hayes, N., Machell, A., Torjinski, M., Brady, B., Thomas, G., Horwood, S., White, S., Zabatiero, J., Rivera, C., & Cliff, D. P. (2024) Early Childhood Screen use Contexts and Cognitive and Psychosocial Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. JAMA Pediatrics, Article number: e20162591.
Mannell, K., Bloul, S., Sefton-Green, J., & Willcox, M. (2024). Digital media and technology use by families with infants, toddlers, and young children: A scoping review and call for forward momentum. Journal of Children and Media, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2024.2394939
Maslin, K., Murcia, K., Blackley, S. (2024) Can you show me?’: Children demonstrating creativity through focus during STEM online learning. Issues in Educational Research 34(4).
Maslin, K., Murcia, K., Blackley, S. et al. ‘Sky’s the limit’: a case study in fostering young children’s creativity during STEM online learning experiences. Aust. Educ. Res. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-024-00739-8
Matthews, S., Kaiser, K., Lum, R., Moran, G., Richards, M., Bock, S., Matthews, B., & Wiles, J. (2024). Unearthing the latent assumptions inscribed into language tools: the cross-cultural benefits of applying a reflexive lens in co-design. CoDesign, 1–33. https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2024.2339500
Murcia, K., Cross, E. & Lowe, G. Young children’s computational thinking: educator pedagogy fostering children’s play and learning with a tangible coding device. Aust. Educ. Res. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-024-00762-9
Murcia, K., Cross, E., and Mennell, S., 2024, The Children’s Technology Cove: A living lab fostering innovation and connecting research with industry and the wider community, AARE Conference, Sydney, December 1-5
Murcia, K., Cross, E., Mennell, S., Seitz, J., and Sabatino, D., 2024, How to Code a Sandcastle: Fostering Cildren’s Computational Thinking through an Unplugged Coding Experience, Journal of Innovation, Advancement, and Methodology in STEM Education, 1 (1), https://so13.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/J_IAMSTEM/article/view/419
Murcia, K., Cross, E., Seitz, J., & Lowe, G. (2024). Children’s agency within digital play and learning: Exploring the impact of shared play experiences on parent–child negotiations. Children & Society, 00, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1111/chso.12905
Murcia, K., Lowe, G., Mavilidi, M. et al. From conception to fruition: Co-designing a digital exhibit incorporating embodied cognition to encourage young children’s computational thinking in a Science Discovery Centre. Aust. Educ. Res. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-024-00785-2
Ólafsdóttir, S. M., Danby, S., & Theobald, M. (2024). Making connections with children: children’s rights, ethics and research methods. European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350293X.2024.2437777
Om, C., Vella, K., Brereton, M., Ploderer, B., Dema, T., Dobson, M. and Murcia, K. 2024. “Rethinking the development of computational thinking skills in young children through nature play..” OzCHI ’23: Refereed Proceedings of the 35th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference: 536-549. https://doi.org/10.1145/3638380.3638447
Osman, Kim, Marshall, Amber, & Dezuanni, Michael (2024) Digital inclusion and learning at home: Challenges for low-income Australian families. In Yates, Simeon & Carmi, Elinor (Eds.) Digital Inclusion: International Policy and Research. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 87-109.
Pangrazio, L., Auld, G., Lynch, J., Sawatzki, C., Duffy, G., Hannigan, S., & O’Mara, J. (2024). Data justice in education: Toward a research agenda. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2024.2320196
Pangrazio, Luci; Bunn, Anna (2024). Assessing the privacy of digital products in Australian schools: Protecting the digital rights of children and young people. Deakin University. Journal contribution. https://hdl.handle.net/10779/DRO/DU:26264633.v1
Parker, M., J. Mantei, L. Kervin (2024). Oracy as the foundation for reading and writing, Flint, A. S., Vicars, M., Muscat, A., Bennet, M., Ewing, R., Shaw, K., Kervin, L., Mantei, J., Iorio, J., & Hamm, C (Eds), Literacy in Australia : Pedagogies for Engagement. (4th ed.). John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated.
Reddan, B., Rutherford, L., Schoonens, A., & Dezuanni, M. (2024). Social Reading Cultures on BookTube, Bookstagram, and BookTok. (First edition.). Taylor & Francis Group.
Rodriguez, A., & Zhao, X. (2024). Pushing against the panic: Considering the positives of TikTok and children. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 13678779241276011. https://doi.org/10.1177/13678779241276011
Sampaio, I. S. V., Robinson, L., Moles, K., & Pangrazio, L. (2024). Introduction to Youth, digital media, and civic engagement. First Monday, 29(12). https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v29i12.13839
Sefton-Green, J., (2024), Foreword: Learning from the pandemic in Willett, R., & Zhao, X (eds), Children, Media, and Pandemic Parenting : Family Life in Uncertain Times. (1st ed.). Taylor & Francis Group.
Shay, M., Sarra, G., Lampert, J., Jeong, D., Thomson, A. & Miller, J. (2024) Codesign in Indigenous education policy and practice—A systematic literature review. Australian Journal of Social Issues, 00, 1–20. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajs4.320
Sheppard, L. C., X. Zhao, N. Coulter (2024), Space, time, and families relational media practices: China and Canada in Willett, R., & Zhao, X (eds), Children, Media, and Pandemic Parenting : Family Life in Uncertain Times. (1st ed.). Taylor & Francis Group.
Smith, K. L., Shade, L.R., Grant, L., Kumar, P., Lorenzo, G.Z., Gaia, A. Mascheroni, G., Heath, M.K., Krutka, D.G., Pangrazio, L., Selwyn, N., . (2024). Children as data subjects: Families, schools, and everyday lives. In J. Jarke, Bates, J. (Ed.), Dialogues in Data Power: Shifting Response-ability in a Datafied World (pp. 31-51). Bristol University Press.
Srdarov, S., & Leaver, T. (2024). Generative AI Glitches: The Artificial Everything. M/C Journal, 27(6). https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3123
Tang, K.S., Murcia, K. Brown, J., Cross, E., Mennell, S. (2024). Exploring the multimodal affordances of digital coding devices in fostering creative thinking in early childhood education. Thinking Skills and Creativity.
Torjinski, M., Cliff, D. & Horwood, S. Associations between nature exposure, screen use, and parent-child relations: a scoping review. Syst Rev 13, 305 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-024-02690-2
Vella, K., Brereton, M., Rogers, Y et al, 2024, Nature Networks: Designing for nature data collection and sharing from local to global, ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2024 Copenhagen, Denmark July 1-5
Verma, A., Islam, S., Moghaddam, V., Anwar, A., & Horwood, S. (2024). Empathic Responding for Digital Interpersonal Emotion Regulation via Content Recommendation. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2024.2430428
Whitehead L, Robinson S, Arabiat D, Jenkins M, Morelius E, 2024, The Report of Access and Engagement With Digital Health Interventions Among Children and Young People: Systematic Review, JMIR Pediatr Parent 7:e44199, doi: 10.2196/44199
Willett, R., Zhao, X., and García Gómez, D. C. (2024), Conclusion: Contributions, provocations, and calls to action in Willett, R., & Zhao, X (eds), Children, Media, and Pandemic Parenting : Family Life in Uncertain Times. (1st ed.). Taylor & Francis Group.
Zabatiero, J., McCormack, D., Stone, L., Zarb, D., Edwards, S., and Straker, L. 2025. “Yeah, no more tantrums, whoo!”: Practices parents valued to help children transition away from screens. Int. J. Child-Comp. Interact. 42, C (Dec 2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2024.100691
Zabatiero, J., Stone, L., McCormack, D., Zarb, D., Nolan, A., Highfield, K., Skouteris, H., Edwards, S., & Straker, L. (2024). “I Use Technologies Strategically With My Family Now”: Practices That Parents Value to Promote Physical Activity in Young Children. Journal of physical activity & health, 21(11), 1121–1131. https://doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2024-0317
Zhao, . X., Ng, R., Zomer, C., Duffy, G., & Sefton-Green, J. (2025). RESEARCHING THE EDTECH INDUSTRY FOR CHILDREN: METHODOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON A DESIGN-BASED APPROACH. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research. https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2024i0.14080
Zhao, X. (2024). Overseas Chinese parent wanghong on Douyin: Discursive constructions of diasporic parenthood. Global Media and China, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364241278090
Zhao, X., M. Mauk, A. Kim (2024), Imaginaries of parental controls: The state, market, and families in Willett, R., & Zhao, X (eds), Children, Media, and Pandemic Parenting : Family Life in Uncertain Times. (1st ed.). Taylor & Francis Group.
Zhao, X., Ng, R., Zomer, C., Duffy, G., & Sefton-Green, J. (2024). Database as method: Exposing ‘data’ about educational technology through a design intervention. Computers and Education Open, 6, 100188-. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.caeo.2024.100188
2023
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Arabiat, D., Al Jabery, M., Robinson, S., Whitehead, L., & Mörelius, E. (2023). Interactive technology use and child development: A systematic review. Child: Care, Health and Development, 49(4), 679–715.
Archer, C and Williams, D, 2023, #Parentlife: Key issues, benefits and advice for new parents using social media and mobile technology,Vol 10 Issue 4
Cooke, E., Coles, L., Thorpe, K., Houen, S., 2023, Crystallising The Everyday Emotional Work of Women Working in Childcare During Covid-19, in Mackinlay and Madden (Eds), Departing Radically in Academic Writing: Alternative Approaches to Writing and Methods in Qualitative Research, 1st Edition, Routledge: London, 10.4324/9781003360766-2
Delahunty, J., Jones, P., Verenkina, I., 2023, Collaborative knowledge building: The dynamic life of ideas in online discussion forums in Thwait, A., Simpson, A., Jones, P., (Eds), Dialogic Pedagogy, 1st Edition, Routledge: London, 10.4324/9781003296744-20
Fielding, K., Maslin, K., & Murcia, K. (2023). ‘I can’t draw, sing or dance to save my life!’: Educator and parent implicit theories of creativity. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/18369391231159670
Frommel, Julian and Freeman, Guo and MacKenzie, Janelle E. and Johnson, Daniel and Mandryk, Regan L., 2023, Workshop on Understanding and Combating the Problematic Side of Play, CHI PLAY Companion ’23: Companion Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in PlayOctober 2023Pages 348–349, https://doi.org/10.1145/3573382.3616025
Gadam, S., Pattinson, C. L., Rossa, K. R., Soleimanloo, S. S., Moore, J., Begum, T., Srinivasan, A. G., & Smith, S. S. (2023). Interventions to increase sleep duration in young people: A systematic review. Sleep Medicine Reviews, 70, 101807–101807. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smrv.2023.101807
Healy, S.; Coleman, K.,; Rodriguez, Aleesha; Ng, Rebecca; Belton, Amanda; Williams, Jessica; et al. (2023). Dreams for Digital Spaces Symposium Paper: What Shapes the Worlds of Children, Educators and Researchers?. The University of Melbourne. Journal contribution. https://doi.org/10.26188/22566979.v1
Hendry, D.; Rohl, A.L.; Rasmussen, C.L.; Zabatiero, J.; Cliff, D.P.; Smith, S.S.; Mackenzie, J.; Pattinson, C.L.; Straker, L.; Campbell, A. Objective Measurement of Posture and Movement in Young Children Using Wearable Sensors and Customised Mathematical Approaches: A Systematic Review. Sensors 2023, 23, 9661. https://doi.org/10.3390/s23249661
Hesketh, K. D., Booth, V., Cleland, V., Gomersall, S. R., Olds, T., Reece, L., Ridgers, N. D., Straker, L., Stylianou, M., Tomkinson, G. R., & Lubans, D. (2023). Results from the Australian 2022 Report Card on physical activity for children and young people. Journal of Exercise Science and Fitness, 21(1), 83–87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesf.2022.10.006
Hood R, Zabatiero J, Zubrick S, Silva D, Straker L. (2023) ‘It helps and it doesn’t help’: maternal perspectives on how the use of smartphones and tablet computers influences parent-infant attachment. Ergonomics. DOI: 10.1080/00140139.2023.2212148
Jaunzems, K., Jacques, C., Green, L., & Brandsen, S. (2023). “The Internet of Life” : Enhancing the Everyday through Children’s Use of Digital Devices. M/C Journal, 26(2). https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2954
Jefferson, S., Lowe, G. M., Gray, C. & Prout, P. (2023) The search for marigolds: Positive veteran teachers and why social support matters, Teachers and Teaching, 29:2, 150-163, DOI: 10.1080/13540602.2022.2151430
Jeong, D., & Hardy, I. (2023). Imagining educational futures? SDG4 enactment for ethnic minorities in Laos. Compare, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2023.2292522
Kay, L., Brandsen, S., Jacques, C., Stocco, F. ., & Zaffaroni, L. G. (2023). Children’s Digital and Non-Digital Play Practices with Cozmo, the Toy Robot. M/C Journal, 26(2). https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2943 (Original work published April 25, 2023)
Kay, L., Green, L., & Leaver, T. (2023). Blocks. M/C Journal, 26(3). https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2984
Kervin, L., Howard, S, Jones, R., McKnight, A., (2023), Research for Educators, Third edition. Cengage https://au.cengage.com/c/isbn/9780170460446/?filterBy=Higher-Education#meet-the-author
Kervin.L, Mantei.J, Riveria.M.C,S & Neilsen-Hewett.C, (2023). Establishing a Digital Technology Play Space for Children. Journal of Museum Education, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/10598650.2023.2241948
Leaver, T., & Srdarov, S. . (2023). ChatGPT Isn’t Magic : The Hype and Hypocrisy of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) Rhetoric. M/C Journal, 26(5). https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.3004
Leaver, T., Green, L., & Kay, L. (2023). It’s All about the Toys!. M/C Journal, 26(2). https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2974 (Original work published April 25, 2023)
Levido, A. (2023) Exploring the Key Concept of Technologies in Media Literacy Education. British Educational Research Association Conference – Birmingham, England 12-14 September 2023.
Locke, K., & Leaver, T. (2023). Pokémon Go and Urban Accessibility. In K. Ellis, T. Leaver, & M. Kent (Eds.), Gaming Disability: Disability Perspectives on Contemporary Video Games (pp. 210–221). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367357153-20
Mannell, K., Fordyce, R., & Jethani, S. (2023). Oaths and the ethics of automated data: limits to porting the Hippocratic oath from medicine to data science. Cultural Studies (London, England), 37(1), 168–189. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2022.2042577
Maslin, K., Murcia, K., Blackley, S., & Lowe, G. (2023). Fostering young children’s creativity in online learning environments: A systematic literature review. Thinking Skills and Creativity, 47, 101249-. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2023.101249
Neag, A., & Healy, S. (2023). ‘Daddy should search for help on Google instead of swearing … ’: escaping the boundaries of technologically mediated learning. Journal of Educational Media : The Journal of the Educational Television Association, 48(4), 649–665. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2023.2249812
Nicholas, M., & Paatsch, L. (2023). The shared reading of digital storybooks with young children: Parents’ perspectives. Research Papers in Education, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2023.2205411
Om, C., Brereton, M., Vella, K., Ploderer, B., Dema, T., Dobson, M., Murcia, K. (in press) Rethinking the development of computational thinking skills in young children through nature play. Proceedings of the 35th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (OzCHI’23)
Ouyang, L., 2023, Designing Interactive Speakers to Support Pre-schoolers for Music Education, IDC ’23: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference June 2023 Pages 764–765, https://doi.org/10.1145/3585088.3593924
Paatsch, L., Casey, S., Green, A., Stagnitti, K. (2023), Learning through play in the primary school : the why and the how for teachers and school leaders, Routledge: London and New York, SBN 9781032284217.
Pangrazio, L., & Mavoa, J. (2023). Studying the datafication of Australian childhoods: learning from a survey of digital technologies in homes with young children. Media International Australia, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X231162386
Pangrazio, L., & Sefton-Green, J. (2023). Digital literacies as a “soft power” of educational governance. In World Yearbook of Education 2024: Digitalisation of Education in the Era of Algorithms, Automation and Artificial Intelligence (pp. 196–211). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003359722-15
Pattinson, C. L., Edmed, S. L., Smith, S. S., & Douglas, P. S. (2023). Questioning the effectiveness of behavioral sleep interventions for infants. The Journal of Pediatrics, 261, 113335–113335. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2023.01.012
Perrotta, C., & Pangrazio, L. (2023). The Critical Study of Digital Platforms and Infrastructures: Current Issues and New Agendas for Education Technology Research. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 31. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.31.7952
Poyntz, S. R., Sefton-Green, J., Fitzsimmons Frey, H., (2023) Youthsites: Histories of Creativity, Care, and Learning in the City, Oxford University Press: London, UK
Price AMH, White N, Burley J, et al Price, A. M. H., White, N., Burley, J., Zhu, A., Contreras-Suarez, D., Wang, S., Stone, M., Trotter, K., Mrad, M., Caldwell, J., Bishop, R., Chota, S., Bui, L., Sanger, D., Roles, R., Watts, A., Samir, N., Grace, R., Raman, S., … Goldfeld, S. (2023). Feasibility of linking universal child and family healthcare and financial counselling: findings from the Australian Healthier Wealthier Families (HWF) mixed-methods study. BMJ Open, 13(11), e075651–e075651. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-075651
Rodriguez, A., & Levido, A. (2023). “My Little Influencer”: A Toy Ringlight as Proxy to Media Practices and Technopanics. M/C Journal, 26(2). https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2948
Ruscoe, A., Barblett, L., & Barratt-Pugh, C. (2023). Discourses in power: Policy and curriculum demands in the first year of compulsory school. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 24(3), 298–312. https://doi.org/10.1177/1463949121990905
Sanders, T., Noetel, M., Parker, P., Del Pozo Cruz, B., Biddle, S., Ronto, R., Hulteen, R., Parker, R., Thomas, G., De Cocker, K., Salmon, J., Hesketh, K., Weeks, N., Arnott, H., Devine, E., Vasconcellos, R., Pagano, R., Sherson, J., Conigrave, J., & Lonsdale, C. (2023). An umbrella review of the benefits and risks associated with youths’ interactions with electronic screens. Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01712-8
Shay, M., Sarra, G., & Woods, A. (2022). Grounded ontologies: Indigenous methodologies in qualitative cross-cultural research. In Handbook of Qualitative Cross-Cultural Research Methods (pp. 26–39). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800376625.00011
Snow, S, Matthews, S, Chen, Y, Yang, S, and Bayley, M (2023). Designing serious games to engage children with energy saving in the home: potential learning outcomes and design considerations. Journal of Computers in Education 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40692-023-00302-x
Stevenson, K. J., Jayakumar, E., & See, H. (2023). The Toy Brick as a Communicative Device for Amplifying Children’s Voices in Research. M/C Journal, 26(3). https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2957
Theobald, Maryanne, Busch, Gillian, Mushin, Ilana, O’Gorman, Lyndal, Nielson, Cathy, Radanovic, Shelley, Briant, Elizabeth, Curtis, Lisa, Mirah, Erin, Rana, Louise, Moore, Tyler, and Danby, Susan (2023). Children as citizens of a global society. International perspectives on educating for democracy in early childhood. Edited by Stacy Lee DeZutter. New York, NY, United States: Routledge.297-320. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003229568-23
Torjinski, M., Horwood, S. Associations between nature exposure, screen use, and parent–child relations: a scoping review protocol. Syst Rev 12, 217 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-023-02367-2
van der Nagel, E., Hutchinson, J., Abidin, C., & Kaye, B. (2023). Black summer on TikTok and ABC news: Shaping cultural identity during an Australian bushfire crisis. Convergence, 29(4), 962-979. https://doi.org/10.1177/13548565231178005
Vella, K., Dobson, M., Rodgers, S., Om, C., Bircanin, F., Dema, T., Pillai, J., Murcia, K., & Brereton, M. (2023). Wired, wild, wonderful: A scoping review of early childhood nature connections fostered by digital technologies. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcci.2023.100619
Westwood, E., Smith, S., Mann, D., Pattinson, C., Allan, A., & Staton, S. (2023). The effects of light in children: A systematic review. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 89, 102062-. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2023.102062
Williams, Kate E., Hayes, Nicole, Berthelsen, Donna, and Quach, Jon (2023). A longitudinal model of sleep problems and classroom self-regulation across elementary school. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology 89 101596 101596. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2023.101596
Wilson, S., Murcia, K., Cross, E., & Lowe, G. (2023). Digital technologies and the early childhood sector: are we fostering digital capabilities and agency in young children? Australian Educational Researcher. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-023-00647-3
Yanes, T., Nathan, V., Wallingford, C., Faragher, R., Nankervis, K., Jacobs, C., Vassos, M., Boyle, F., Carroll, A., Smith, S., & McInerney-Leo, A. (2023). Australasian genetic counselors’ attitudes toward disability and prenatal testing: Findings from a cross-sectional survey. Journal of genetic counseling, 10.1002/jgc4.1788. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/jgc4.1788
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Arabiat, D., Al Jabery, M., Robinson, S., Whitehead, L., & Mörelius, E. (2022). Interactive technology use and child development: A systematic review. In Child: Care, Health and Development. Wiley, DOI: 10.1111/cch.13082
Barblett, L., & Barratt-Pugh, C. (2022). Shifting the balance of power for families through a strengths-based book gifting program. In Relationships with Families in Early Childhood Education and Care (pp. 113–121). Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9780367816100-14
Burley, J., Samir, N., Price, A., Parker, A., Zhu, A., Eapen, V., Contreras-Suarez, D., Schreurs, N., Lawson, K., Lingam, R., Grace, R., Raman, S., Kemp, L., Bishop, R., Goldfeld, S., & Woolfenden, S. (2022). Connecting Healthcare with Income Maximisation Services: A Systematic Review on the Health, Wellbeing and Financial Impacts for Families with Young Children. In International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (Vol. 19, Issue 11, p. 6425). MDPI AG. DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19116425
Busch, G., Theobald, M., & Danby, S. (2022). The Stories We Tell: Stories Within Family Mealtimes. In Storytelling Practices in Home and Educational Contexts (pp. 73–92). Springer Nature Singapore. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-9955-9_5
K. J. Murcia, C. Campbell, M. M. Joubert, & S. Wilson (Eds.), (2022), Children’s Creative Inquiry in STEM. Sociocultural Explorations of Science Education. Springer International Publishing. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-94724-8
Church, A., Bateman, A., & Danby, S. (2022). Conversation Analysis for Early Childhood Teachers. In Talking with Children (pp. 21–37). Cambridge University Press. DOI: 10.1017/9781108979764.002
Corser, K., Dezuanni, M., & Notley, T. (2022) How news media literacy is taught in Australian classrooms. Australian Educational Researcher, 49(4), pp. 761-777. DOI: 10.1007/s13384-021-00457-5
Cross, E. F., Dobson, M. R., Walker, R. M., Lowe, G. M., (2022), Leading for quality in Western Australian early childhood services: An emerging framework, Issues in Educational Research, DOI: 10.3316/informit.806224365341712
Dezuanni, M. (2022) Nordic childhoods and entertainment ‘supersystems’ in the digital age. In Kumpulainen, Kristiina, Kajamaa, Anu, Erstad, Ola, Mäkitalo, Åsa, Drotner, Kirsten, & Jakobsdóttir, Sólveig (Eds.) Nordic Childhoods in the Digital Age : Insights into Contemporary Research on Communication, Learning and Education. Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 201-206. DOI: 10.4324/9781003145257-22
Dezuanni, M. & Notley, T. (2022) Media literacy for primary-aged students in the age of digital media and augmented reality. PETAA Paper, 225, pp. 1-8, 2022.
Foster-Thorpe, F., Bennett, S., (2022), Digital lifetime of a child born today, Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, DOI: 10.3316/informit.576666159906350
Green, L., & Le, V. T. (2022). Holding the Line: Responsibility, Digital Citizenship and the Platforms. In Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business (pp. 85–109). Springer International Publishing. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-95220-4_5
Green, L., Dudek, D., Lynne, C., Ólafsson, K., Staksrud, E., Jacques, C. L., & Jaunzems, K. (2022). Tox and Detox. In M/C Journal (Vol. 25, Issue 2). Queensland University of Technology. DOI: 10.5204/mcj.2888
Hood, R., Zabatiero, J., Silva, D., R. Zubrick, S., & Straker, L. (2022). ‘There’s good and bad’: parent perspectives on the influence of mobile touch screen device use on prenatal attachment. In Ergonomics (Vol. 65, Issue 12, pp. 1593–1608). Informa UK Limited. DOI: 10.1080/00140139.2022.2041734
Houen, S., & Danby, S. (2022). Digital Technologies.In Talking with Children (pp. 204–226). Cambridge University Press. DOI: /10.1017/9781108979764.011
Houen, S., Thorpe, K., van Os, D., Westwood, E., Toon, D., & Staton, S. (2022). Eliciting and responding to young children’s talk: A systematic review of educators’ interactional strategies that promote rich conversations with children aged 2–5 years. In Educational Research Review (Vol. 37, p. 100473). Elsevier BV. DOI: 10.1016/j.edurev.2022.100473
Jefferson, S., Lowe, G. M., Gray, C., & Prout, P. (2022). The search for marigolds: Positive veteran teachers and why social support matters. In Teachers and Teaching (pp. 1–14). Informa UK Limited. DOI: 10.1080/13540602.2022.2151430
Johnston, K., Kervin, L., & Wyeth, P. (2022). STEM, STEAM and Makerspaces in Early Childhood: A Scoping Review. In Sustainability (Vol. 14, Issue 20, p. 13533). MDPI AG. DOI: 10.3390/su142013533
Low, D. E., Kervin, L. K., Pandya, J. Z., (2022)., Foreword in Multimodal Literacies in Young Emergent Bilinguals: Beyond Print-Centric Practices, Brown, S. and Hao, L. (Eds), DOI: 10.21832/9781800412361
Mannell, K., & Smith, E. T. (2022). Alternative Social Media and the Complexities of a More Participatory Culture: A View From Scuttlebutt. In Social Media + Society (Vol. 8, Issue 3, p. 205630512211224). SAGE Publications. DOI: 10.1177/20563051221122448
Matamoros-Fernández, A., Rodriguez, A., & Wikström, P. (2022). Humor That Harms? Examining Racist Audio-Visual Memetic Media on TikTok During Covid-19. In Media and Communication (Vol. 10, Issue 2, pp. 180–191). Cogitatio. DOI: 10.17645/mac.v10i2.5154
Murcia, K., (2022), Children’s Creativity and STEM Inquiry Projects, Asian Research Network Journal of Education
Murcia, K., & Cross, E. (2022). Empowering Early Childhood Teachers to Develop Digital Technology Pedagogies: An Australian Action Research Case Study. In STEM, Robotics, Mobile Apps in Early Childhood and Primary Education (pp. 33–53). Springer Nature Singapore. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-0568-1_3
Murcia, K., & Oblak, C. (2022). Exploring an Engineering Design Process and Young Children’s Creativity. In Children’s Creative Inquiry in STEM (pp. 207–223). Springer International Publishing. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-94724-8_12
Pangrazio, L., & Sefton-Green, J. (2022). Learning to Live with Datafication. Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003136842
PlayTank Collective, Healy, S., Mayes, E., Flynn, A., Edwards, A., (2022), Entering into Sympogogies, Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry, DOI: 10.18733/cpi29658
Sefton-Green, J. (2022). Is there a ‘theory of learning’ for cultural studies and is it (still) relevant in an era of surveillance capitalism? In Continuum (pp. 1–13). Informa UK Limited. DOI: 10.1080/10304312.2022.2049211
Stocco, F., & Green, L. (2022). Children and the Internet of Toys. In The Routledge International Handbook of Children, Adolescents, and Media (pp. 162–170). Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003118824-21
Straker, L., Booth, V., Cleland, V., Gomersall, S., Lubans, D., Olds, T., Reece, L., Ridgers, N., Stylianou, M., Tomkinson, G., & Hesketh, K. (2022). Reimagining physical activity for children following the systemic disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia. In British Journal of Sports Medicine (Vol. 56, Issue 16, pp. 899–900). BMJ. DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2021-105277
Theobald, M., Busch, G., Mushin, I., O’Gorman, L., Nielson, C., Watts, J., & Danby, S. (2022). Making Culture Visible: Telling Small Stories in Busy Classrooms. In Storytelling Practices in Home and Educational Contexts (pp. 123–148). Springer Nature Singapore. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-9955-9_8
Webster, L., Leaver, T., & Sandry, E. (2022). Transmedia storytelling during the COVID-19 pandemic: Marvel’s WandaVision and Zack Snyder’s Justice League. In First Monday. University of Illinois Libraries. DOI: 10.5210/fm.v27i7.11784
Zhao, X. (Andy). (2022). Digital Experiences of International Students: Challenging Assumptions and Rethinking Engagement, Shanton Chang and Catherine Gomes (eds) (2021). In Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration (Vol. 6, Issue 1, pp. 126–128). Intellect. DOI: 10.1386/tjtm_00048_5
2021
Mörelius E, Robinson S, Arabiat D, Whitehead L,
Digital Interventions to Improve Health Literacy Among Parents of Children Aged 0 to 12 Years With a Health Condition: Systematic Review, Journal of Medical Internet Research 2021;23(12):e31665, 10.2196/31665\