This companion presents the newest research in this important area, showcasing the huge diversity in children's relationships with digital media around the globe, and exploring the benefits, challenges, history, and emerging developments in the field.

Introduction Part 1: Creation of Knowledge 1. Child Studies Meets Digital Media: Rethinking the Paradigms 2. Engaging in Ethical Research Partnerships with Children and Families 3. Platforms, Participation and Place: Understanding Young People's Changing Digital Media Worlds 4. Methodological Issues in Researching Children and Digital Media 5. Young Learners in the Digital Age 6. Children Who Code 7. Young children's creativity in digital possibility spaces: What might posthumanism reveal? 8. The Domestication of Touchscreen Technologies in Families with Young Children 9. Grandparental Mediation of Children's Digital Media Use Part 2: Digital Media Lives 10. Young Children's Haptic Media Habitus 11. Early Encounters with Narrative: Two-Year-Olds and Moving-Image Media 12. Siblings Accomplishing Tasks Together: Solicited and Unsolicited Assistance when Using Digital Technology 13. Children as Architects of Their Digital Worlds 14. Teens' Online and Offline Lives: How They Are Experiencing Their Sociability 15. Teens' Fandom Communities: Making Friends and Countering Unwanted Contacts 16. Identity Exploration in Anonymous Online Spaces 17. Supervised Play: Intimate Surveillance and Children's Mobile Media Usage 18. Challenging Adolescents' Autonomy: An Affordances Perspective on Parental Tools Part 3: Complexities of Commodification 19. Children's Enrolment in Online Consumer Culture 20. The Emergence and Ethics of Child-Created Content as Media Industries 21. Pre-school Stars on YouTube: Child Microcelebrities, Commercially Viable Biographies, and Interactions with Technology 22. Balancing Privacy: Sharenting, Intimate Surveillance and the Right to be Forgotten 23. Parenting Pedagogies in the Marketing of Children's Apps 24. Digital Literacy/'Dynamic Literacies': Formal and Informal Learning Now and in the Emergent Future 25. Being and Not Being: 'Digital Tweens' in a Hybrid Culture 26. "Technically They're Your Creations, but...": Children Making, Playing, and Negotiating User-Generated Content Games 27. Marketing to Children Through Digital Media: Trends and Issues Part 4: Children's Rights 28. Child-Centred Policy: Enfranchising Children as Digital Policy-Makers 29. Law, Digital Media and the Discomfort of Children's Rights 30. No Fixed Limits? The Uncomfortable Application of Inconsistent Law to the Lives of Children Dealing with Digital Media 31. Children's Agency in the Media Socialisation Process 32. Digital Citizenship in Domestic Contexts 33. Digital Socialising in Children on the Autism Spectrum 34. Disability, Children, and the Invention of Digital Media 35. Children's Moral Agency in the Digital Environment 36. Children's Rights in the Digital Environment: A Challenging Terrain for Evidence-Based Policy Part 5: Changing and Challenging Circumstances 37. Caring Dataveillance: Women's Use of Apps to Monitor Pregnancy and Children 38. Digital Media and Sleep in Children 39. Sick Children and Social Media 40. Children's Sexuality in the Context of Digital Media: Sexualisation, Sexting and Experiences with Sexual Content in a Research Perspective 41. Digital Inequalities Amongst Digital Natives 42. Street Children and Social Media: Identity Construction in the Digital Age 43. Perspectives on Cyberbullying and Traditional Bullying: Same or Different? 44. Digital Storytelling: Opportunities for Identity Investment for Youth from Refugee Backgrounds 45. Children, Death and Digital Media Part 6: Local Complexities in a Global Context 46. Very Young Children's Digital Literacy: Engagement, Practices, Learning and Home-School-Community Knowledge Exchange in Lisbon, Portugal 47. The Voices of African Children 48. Limiting the Digital in Brazilian Schools: Structural Difficulties and School Culture 49. Australia and Consensual Sexting: The Creation of Child Pornography or Exploitation Materials? 50. Revisiting Children's Participation in Television: Implications for Digital Media Rights in Bangladesh 51. Chinese Teen Digital Entertainment: Rethinking Censorship and Commercialisation in Short Video and Online Fiction 52. Sexual Images, Risk and Perception Among Youth - A Nordic Example 53. US-Based Toy Unboxing Production in Children's Culture 54. The Role of Digital Media in the Lives of Some American Muslim Children, 2010-2019